Beyond the conventional human rights approach, towards a radical view of rights The standard conception of human rights relies significantly on the international legal framework discussed earlier. But the same…
Health rights of social groups with special health needs Any system of rights is relevant only if it benefits the most vulnerable or deprived. The argument is not for a…
The issue of prime mover on health rights Health which concerns ‘everybody’, might be in the danger of being the particular concern of ‘nobody’. Unlike many other issues (like workers…
Pathologies of power, as well as social class formation are the motor forces behind most human rights violations which are themselves embedded in entrenched historical structural violence trends. Many previous…
As we have said in previous Readers, most democracies are sham democracies, where the exploited are easily fooled, have little money and cannot push for their own interests. Western-style electoral…
In the above case, it has been said that individual human rights (HR) may be in conflict with social benefits. But the fact is that one can respect individual HR…
Underdevelopment, with its flagrant violations of human rights, can and does persist with the full connivance of the exploited and of those who purport to work on their behalf. As…
Human Rights Planning and Programming Although HR are equal and cannot be prioritized based on intrinsic merit, actions to realize the rights can be. It is not enough that planning,…
Some general truisms A human right is both a right to something and a right against somebody. Human rights (HR) dignify rather than victimize or patronize people….plus they make people…
Today, too much emphasis is placed on representative rather than direct democracy. We forget that the beginnings of democratic development in Europe were not marked by elections, but by struggle…