158 EXPLORING A CRITICAL, SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO HEALTH RIGHTS. Summary of a paper by Abhay Shukla * (part 2 of 4)
The issue of prime mover on health rights Health which concerns ‘everybody’, might be in the danger of being…
157 EXPLORING A CRITICAL, SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO HEALTH RIGHTS. Summary of a paper by Abhay Shukla* (part 1 of 4)
Pathologies of power, as well as social class formation are the motor forces behind most human rights violations which are…
156 THE RICH HAVE POWER BECAUSE OF THEIR MONEY, AND THE POOR HAVE POWER BECAUSE OF THEIR NUMBERS AND THEIR POTENTIAL FOR ORGANIZING AROUND HUMAN RIGHTS PRINCIPLES.
As we have said in previous Readers, most democracies are sham democracies, where the exploited are easily fooled, have little…
155 PUBLIC HEALTH BRINGS A COUNTERBALANCE TO THE INDIVIDUAL-CENTERED VIEW OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
In the above case, it has been said that individual human rights (HR) may be in conflict with social benefits.…
154 HUMAN RIGHTS HAVE TO BE TRANSFORMATIVE RATHER THAN JUST SIMPLY EASING HUMAN SUFFERING. (Leslie London)
Underdevelopment, with its flagrant violations of human rights, can and does persist with the full connivance of the exploited and…
153 JONSSON’S CREDO* (part 2 of 2)
[A compilation of bare-bones Human Rights truisms] Human Rights Planning and Programming Although HR are equal and cannot…
152 JONSSON’S CREDO* (part 1 of 2)
[A compilation of bare-bones Human Rights truisms] Some general truisms A human right is both a right to…
151 HUMAN RIGHTS HAVE TO BE A CORE COMPONENT OF THE PROMOTION OF DEMOCRACY
Today, too much emphasis is placed on representative rather than direct democracy. We forget that the beginnings of democratic…
150 FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS, MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS, AND HUMAN RIGHTS: WORKING AT CROSS-PURPOSES?
Who will live and who will die has already been decided by the economic structures brought about by globalization (P.…
149 MORAL PROGRESS DOES NOT EXIST; WE ARE NOT MORE MORAL TODAY THAN WHAT WE WERE A HUNDRED OR A THOUSAND YEARS AGO. (Primo Levi)
[When reading Levi, the Italian 20th century writer, I found a series of aphorisms, i.e., maxims that apply to the…