397 HELPING TO EMPOWER, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS TURN BEGGARS INTO CLAIMANTS.
-I do not have enough energy to surrender. (Luis Manzano, peasant activist in Chile) -Critics who use their words to hide their cowardice of being in the front and making…
396 IN HUMAN RIGHTS WORK INFORMATION IS POWER ONLY IF IT IS LINKED TO EXERTING INFLUENCE BY CLAIM HOLDERS –THUS THE IMPORTANCE OF THEIR EMPOWERMENT.
We all know it for long, don’t we? 1. The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element of so-called democratic…
395 OUR JOB IS TO MAKE SURE HISTORY IS OF ALL OF HUMANITY. (S. Harrison)
What is history, but a fable agreed upon? (Peter Hoeg) Until the lions write their story, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter(Rene Loewenson) Take Africa: history was…
394 CAN WE GET AWAY FROM SPURIOUS MYTHS SUCH AS HUMAN RIGHTS NOT HAVING UNIVERSALITY AND LEGITIMACY?
Human rights are not just the prerogative of prosperous nations; (neither are social protection institutions). (M. Loewe). 1. A widespread lack of understanding-of and misperceptions-about human rights (HR) is one…
393 POLITICAL RIGHTS ARE GUARANTEED BY THE STATE AS THE ULTIMATE DUTY BEARER. SOCIAL RIGHTS MUST BE CONQUERED, PROCLAIMED AND DECLARED BY CLAIM HOLDERS.
-Are human rights a shared charade or are they to be seen as a sign of moral and political progress? -As a matter of priority, the strugglefor substantive equality must,…
392 THINK OF IT: HUMAN RIGHTS ARE PART AND PARCEL OF THE MANDATE ACTUALLY GIVEN BY THE PEOPLE TO THE STATE.(Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2015)
Allow me to start this Reader with an homage to the late Urban Jonsson with whom I worked for many years on many human rights issues –not always agreeing, it…
391 LOCALLY ORGANIZING IS TO BUILD MORE CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT TO BUILD A MORE JUST, MORE EQUITABLE AND LESS COMMERCIALIZED SOCIETY ATTUNED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
1. Growth of a veritable human rights network is needed to succeed in coordinating actions that particularly pursue achieving a greater degree of social cohesion, of solidarity, of expanded contacts…
390 OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT FOR GLOBAL HEALTH JUSTICE; IT IS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND JUSTICE, AS WELL AS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH WITH JUSTICE. (Lawrence Gostin)
1. The reason why global health policy-makers are not implementing the knowledge generated by global health scholars with the right empirical, every-day experience, is not because they use different normative…
389 IF THE POLITICS ARE NOT FAVORABLE TO SPEAKING TRUTHFULLY ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS THEN CLEARLY WE MUST DEVOTE MORE ENERGY TO CHANGING THE POLITICS. (M. Moses) Part 2 of 2
Our time is marked by the predominance of fear over hope 10. A pact between the different constituencies of claim holders must be the result of a political reading that…
388 IF THE POLITICS ARE NOT FAVORABLE TO SPEAKING TRUTHFULLY ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS THEN CLEARLY WE MUST DEVOTE MORE ENERGY TO CHANGING THE POLITICS. (M. Moses) Part 1 of 2
1. These days, international politics is too fragmented to achieve much, especially asso many political leaders are guided by corporate interests. (H-J. Luhmann) As a consequence, nationstates,rich and poor, have…