Human needs provide a critical grounding for human (people’s) rights (HR). Not all needs correspond to rights though, and not…
Processes are occurring every day that make people poor. So, it is legitimate to ask: Where is the end of…
It has never been proven that improving the provision of services through privatization is the best approach to the problems…
In their work –and not that this is easy– human rights (HR) activists ought to make practical experiences influence theory,…
Human rights (HR) violations are varied and dynamic; they and/or their character and intensity change over time. Commonly found patronage…
Respecting and fulfilling human rights (HR) has a cost indeed –maybe even in terms of economic growth foregone. But solidarity,…
In a free-market world economy, Third World countries are not being given the benefits they and their economies need, but…
NGOs became players on the political and human rights stage (HR) long ago –both at the national and the international…
Given unequal relations of power, ‘legality’ and ‘legitimacy’ are mere window-dressing. The claims of the more powerful are simply enforced…
In world affairs parlance, often particular words, short phrases and slogans briefly (or not so briefly) become fashionable; it may…