To make sense of current world problems, we too often fall back on a “shish-kebab mentality”. This much easier and convenient approach looks at the various problems affecting the world…
A word of caution is called for at this point on the issue of what I call “pseudo-basic intervention techniques or approaches” that many of us have advocated-for at one…
As I had said earlier, factors such as foreign debt, international and national income maldistribution, the exploitation of the primary (agricultural) sector, the commoditization of agriculture, overt or hidden un-…
Given the present conditions, the outlook for quantum changes in the human rights (HR) situation in the world appears to be limited, but certainly not hopeless. The room left for…
Moralists, too often insist on quixotic actions against the injustices of the prevalent social system –which they also clearly condemn. But they do not seem to realize that, in the…
An emotional commitment to human rights (HR) work is loose and romantic; a political commitment is more militant. People or institutions that fall under this category strongly feel that the…
The objective consequences of many a development project may turn out to be different from their original subjective intent. We need human rights (HR) activists who are strong and elastic…
Much of what has been called liberal activism in the last half century has been merely an accommodation to historical change –to circumstances. It represents a triumph of circumstance over…
It should not come as a surprise that social and economic injustice is not an accident. It springs from the very nature of capitalism, now in its phase of globalization.…
‘In-the-way-things-are’, society makes disprivilege look right. Human rights (HR) violations are simply ‘explained-away’. Although development scholars sometimes engage in an ideological debate with the culture that breeds them, they almost…