Human rights: Food for an often-ignored thought Human Rights Reader 416 Most governments ignore their human rights obligations in health Currently, governments perceive no impending threat whenever they ignore their…
Human rights: Food for a not-by-chance thought Human Rights Reader 415 -Bernie Sanders put it best: “We not only have massive wealth and income inequality, but a power structure that…
Human rights: Food for a punishing thought Human Rights Reader 414 Politics without value-grounded ideas stimulates corruption (Revista Primera Piedra) 1. In its true sense, politics is to be taken…
Human rights: Food for a thought to be fought-for Human Rights Reader 413 We can safely say that, in the case of health, inequality is a passive outcome: ‘it happens’;…
Human rights: Food for a youth-reminding thought Human Rights Reader 412 The future will ultimately either go in the direction of the youth’s commitment, or along their indifference about human…
The human rights framework, a major instrument for accountability, is under attack 1. The UN is explicitly an intergovernmental body; if UN member states do not like human rights (HR)…
Keep in mind: The power of the people is stronger than the people in power. (Babu Owino) Human rights embody a social learning process originating from social struggles for legal…
-We are, more and more, seeing a process of outsourcing the international development agenda. – The narrative of ‘progress’ is no longer sustainable. (Steven Smith) Innovation is not a prerogative…
In many parts of the world, cows are given more rights than women. (Huffington Post) We cannot let anybody forget the-female-face-of-poverty 1. Women are subjected to multiple and intersecting discrimination…