590. HUMAN RIGHTS PROBLEMS ARE HARDLY SOLVED IN AIRCONDITIONED ROOMS; THE STRUGGLE IS ELSEWHERE. (Beto O’Rourke)
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): This Reader is about what a people-centered struggle approach to HR is all about and…
589. HERE IS A CALL NOT TO GET INVOLVED IN UNREPRESENTATIVE POLITICS, BUT A CALL TO HELP CREATE A NEW POLITICS.
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): This Reader is about power brokering, power brokers and not-yet brokers and the political conflict…
588. NEOLIBERALISM GUARANTEES THE HIERARCHY OF THE HOLY TRINITY ‘PRIVATE-MARKET-FINANCES’ OVER THE UNIVERSAL VALUES OF HUMAN RIGHTS. (Gianni Tognoni)
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): This Reader scathingly critiques certain neoliberal economists, politicians and charities given their ignoring or just…
587. UNTIL LIONS HAVE THEIR OWN HISTORIANS, HUNTING HISTORIES WILL CONTINUE TO GLORIFY HUNTERS. (African proverb)
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): This Reader is about how conventional history has created a picture that leaves out ‘the…
586. CURRENT DEVELOPMENT FADS FETISHIZE DATA, OSTENSIBLY FOR WHAT IS CALLED ‘EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY-MAKING’: WHERE ARE YOU HUMAN RIGHTS?
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): This Reader is about the fallacy of what data will do/not do for development and…
585. RELEGATING HUMAN RIGHTS TO OBLIVION: WHAT DO BUZZWORDS DO FOR DEVELOPMENT POLICY?
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): This Reader is about how deceiving catchphrases in the development lingo seriously hinder human rights…
584. MOST HUMAN RIGHTS WRITINGS ARE ABOUT HOW OTHER PEOPLE COULD DO THINGS FOR CLAIM HOLDERS, NOT ABOUT SUPPORTING THEM TO LIFT THEMSELVES TO ACT ON THEIR OWN BEHALF.#
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): This Reader is about the shortcomings and caveats encountered in human rights work. For a…
583. RONALD REAGAN’S MANTRA THAT THE POOR BRING POVERTY AND THE RICH BRING WEALTH, SO THE RICH SHOULD BE LEFT TO CREATE WEALTH IS A CLASSICAL DECEIVING QUOTE OF NEOLIBERALS.
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): This Reader is about how economics treats poverty by looking at it through the wrong…
582. LET US BE REALISTS: THE POLITICAL CHALLENGE THAT POPULIST AUTHORITARIANISM PRESENTS TO DEMOCRACY AND TO HUMAN RIGHTS IS HERE TO STAY.
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): This Reader covers arguments against and in favor of the current global human rights movement’s…
581. PRIMITIVE MAN HAD TO PROTECT HIMSELF FROM THE THREATS OF NATURE. NOW, NATURE HAS TO BE SAVED FROM THE THREATS OF MAN. (Albino Gomez)
[TLDR (too long didn’t read): This Reader is about how protecting nature from extractivism and from climate change has become…