237 SOME REACTIONS TO WHAT WE HEAR (AND DO NOT HEAR) IN MANY A PUBLIC HEALTH CONFERENCE THESE DAYS.
1. Am I tired of going to such conferences? Sort of. 2. It is just that, in them, we hear about so many things that need doing and have so…
236 THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE MARKET FUNDAMENTALISM OF GLOBALIZATION ARE IRRECONCILABLE.
Let’s call a spade a spade: Globalization is a project of the North to globalize its corporate power. The market fundamentalism at its base is not only a system of…
235 HUMAN RIGHTS LEARNING HAS TO BE MADE INTO A YEAR-ROUND COMMUNITY RESOURCE
We cannot continue with a popular education that is mostly reactive. 1. Popular education is a central part of the agenda of the human rights (HR) movement and must be…
234 BEWARE: HUMAN RIGHTS ARE BEING INTERPRETED TO SUIT THE FREE MARKET.
1. These days, the market is presented to us as capable of resolving all problems –even of protecting human rights; but the latter, basically through the façade of corporate social…
233 LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE: CONNECTING THE IVORY TOWER TO MAINSTREET. (C. L. Schur)
We may be intelligent, but do we have the experience? If we do, it depends whether we learn-from and apply our experience! (F. Stern) Those who cannot remember the past…
232 ACTIONS AND ACTIVISM IN FOSTERING GENUINE GRASSROOTS PARTICIPATION IN HEALTH AND NUTRITION.
Effective action requires not just an enthusiasm, but calls for a close rapport with the disgruntled so as to get them organized. (A. Robbins) 1. You may often have asked…
231 THE RESPONSIBILITY OF RICH COUNTRIES FOR THE PERSISTENCE OF IMPOVERISHMENT* AND ILL-BEING** IN POOR COUNTRIES: A HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED INDICTMENT OF THE MDGs.
Some have calculated that, with current development trends remaining the norm, poverty will be eradicated in something like 70 or more years. ________ * : I agree with those who…
230 POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
I have often been asked what is the most serious form of human rights violation in the world today, and my reply is consistent: extreme poverty. (Mary Robinson) 1. By…
229 SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN.
Allow me to present these reflections in the form of bullets • A truly women-centered approach to human rights (HR) has to depart from the principle that there are an…
228 FOCUSING ON EQUALITY OF RESULTS (BEYOND EQUALITY OF ACCESS) IS THE NEEDED STEP TOWARDS SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THUS TOWARDS HUMAN RIGHTS.
Communities –and not academics setting cut-off points– are the best qualified to identify the poor among themselves thus judging relative poverty. 1. In our work in health, we see equality…