In development work, there is a tendency to confuse political discourse with technical knowledge, enhancing the power of select experts over a) political actors/activists, and b) over the empirical knowledge…
We cannot create the impression that the SDGs are a normative rather than a political framework. The SDGs are a political compromise, one that many-of-those-who-should do not fully support. (Simone…
Nothing disappears until it is truly replaced. (Auguste Comte) 1. Neoliberalism is not really new. It is actually an even more anti-social version of 20th century capitalism some of us…
. Preamble: The human right to health is indispensable for the exercise of other human rights. 1. The link between an individuals’ state of health and his/her access to health…
Look at the travesty of language: ‘The excluded’ are the majority, no?; actually, the ‘included’ are the minority. . 1. Inviting a token ‘voice’ to speak briefly at an international…
1. Here are a bunch of questions that have for long puzzled other critics and me • Why is it that those who have chronicled history have not felt the…
. Setting the stage 1. The two decades following the Cold War were celebrated and decried as the era of globalization. Critically speaking, the long-term trend of globalization masks a…
Religion and Science 1. Insofar as religion makes claims in the area of science –which it does, because it talks about creation, about the nature of the universe and about…
-Human rights activists cry out, not just to rescue others from their oppression, but to preserve what is left of their own dignity. (K. H.) -I do not do this…
Human Rights: Food for a narrowly focused thought Human Rights Reader 418 The current malnutrition problem around the world is not its double burden, but its multiple burdens. By narrowly…