634. DOES HUMAN RIGHTS INFORMATION APPEAL PRIMARILY TO THOSE WHO ARE ALREADY INTERESTED?
. Note: You can easily translate the Readers to many languages,
632. “TO CHANGE THE WORLD, MY DEAR FRIEND SANCHO, IS NEITHER MADNESS NOR UTOPIA; IT IS JUSTICE”. (Don Quijote, Miguel de Cervantes)
. Note: You can easily translate the Readers to many languages, Use the
631. A NATION’S HUMAN RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS GIVE US A REASON TO INTERROGATE DECISIONS ABOUT HOW FISCAL RESOURCES ARE COLLECTED AND ALLOCATED. (CESR)
. Note: You can easily translate the Readers
630. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING, WILL ANY ROAD TAKE YOU THERE? (Lewis Carrol) A HUMAN RIGHTS RIDDLE.
–Only when people –and peoples– understand their rights and responsibilities and the obligations of their governing authorities can they confidently articulate and actually demand legislation, policies and practices that are…
629. NEOLIBERALISM IGNORES AND SIDELINES ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, BECAUSE IT CONSIDERS THEM OUTRIGHT UNSUSTAINABLE.
The neoliberal ideology of the ruling class is imbued in class fear -There are the police, the army, myriad laws and salaried politicians to guard the bourgeoisie’s assets as the…
628. WOMEN ARE NEITHER A BIOLOGICAL NOR A DEMOGRAPHIC MINORITY, BUT THEY ARE TREATED AS A MINORITY. (Concepcion Company)
. -As the black feminist poet, June Jordan, said, “We are the ones we have been
627. GOVERNMENTS DO NOT HAVE ‘A RESPONSIBILITY’ IN RELATION TO POVERTY; THEY HAVE A LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RIGHTS DUTY!
. –Poverty is a policy choice. (Dylan Matthews) -The most-vulnerable-groups, to use the jargon
626. TEN THESES FOR REINVENTING THE LEFT. (Boaventura de Sousa Santos)
. -The difference between what exists and what is here proposed by the author is such
625. GOVERNMENTS ARE NOT TO BE ALLOWED TO IGNORE HUMAN RIGHTS TEXTS THEY THEMSELVES PARTICIPATED IN NEGOTIATING AND SOLEMNLY RATIFIED. (Aly Alp-Ercelan)
. -The above can mean that, if your government does not respect HR, you