Disclaimer: i) The empowerment of some entails the dis-empowerment of others –usually the current holders of power. ii) Empowering people can well trigger repressive actions by these current holders of…
1. Ministries of health around the world claim they have carried out ‘a’ health sector reform; they argue that by doing so, they have decentralized and devolved the governance of…
-Injustice is a social disease that needs to be combated with the force of an epidemic. -We have no other world except this one; it is difficult to imagine improving…
-Ignoring human rights considerations carries a huge cost; one of them is an inability to understand our world. (Vicente Navarro) -The human rights situation is not like a photograph in…
It is not incumbent upon you to finish the task, but neither are you free to absolve yourself from it. Abraham Lincoln said: The probability that we may fail in…
Development has become hostage to finance. Finance has to serve development and not, as it is presently, the other way around. (Yash Tandon) 1. Under neoliberalism, the prevailing development paradigm…
Before becoming de-facto claimants, the excluded come from an experience of being treated by bureaucrats in a way that echoes colonialism. 1. Human rights are mostly of the yes/no dichotomous…
1. In this day and age, if one looks at the political spectrum in rich countries, value politics overshadow and outdo class politics. As a consequence, in most of these…
Human rights work is about first greatly reducing –and then putting an end –to the dynamics of exclusion. 1. In human rights work, we see exclusion as no longer being…
The struggle of man against power is the struggle between memory and forgetfulness. (Milan Kundera). 1. We do not live in a just world. Delivering justice to those who are…