1. Although the World Bank (and related international financial institutions) pay lip service to progressive human rights (HR) policy, in practice, they continue to promote centralized, unsustainable projects. All summed…
1. On human rights (HR), governments and civil society must consistently hold corporations to account. When it comes to HR, neither flashy-management-slogans nor corporate nitpicking over HR terms and principles…
“There is one and only one social responsibility of business –to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the…
1. When implementing human rights learning strategies worldwide, the process followed in each location may be different, but the end point must be roughly the same. 2. In such a…
An inability to exercise power means that poor and vulnerable people cannot change the condition of their vulnerability and must remain dependent on others to do so. 1. Health planners…
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. (M. Gandhi) 1. In a ‘sick’ country, every step towards…
1. Because poverty is not only about income, but also about the lack of services, a deteriorating and unhealthy environment, inadequate living conditions, human rights violations and scant opportunities, development…
Variations on a theme by Salman Rushdie. Inspired, plagiarized and paraphrased from his novel “Fury”, Vintage Books, Random House, London, 2002. What makes the world go round should not be…
Human Rights in the development discourse have reached a stage-of-no-return with the climate for the adoption and application of human rights principles and obligations slowly, but steadily increasing. (W.Barth-Eide) 1.…
1. Since most scholarly articles on human rights (HR) fall, without making much of a sound either in the academic forest or in the real world, actively establishing HR responsibilities…