579. HEALTH FOR ALL AND THE RIGHT TO HEALTH HAVE BEEN ASPHYXIATED SINCE THE 1980s. (Alison Katz)
. 1. Forty+ years on from Alma Ata, all kinds of ‘revivals’ of PHC have been attempted. None have been genuine revivals, because among
578. WHO WON? DEMOCRACY AT THE EXPENSE OF CAPITALISM? OR CAPITALISM AT THE EXPENSE OF DEMOCRACY?: quo-vadis human rights? (Juan Pablo Cardenas)
. 1. Capitalism ongoingly ‘creates poverty’ so that, then, due to their powerlessness*, ‘the poor’ keep
577. FOR MANY YEARS, AND TILL TODAY, MANY A COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IS ‘EN VIAS DE SUBDESARROLLO’. (Albino Gomez)
-Piu le cose cambiano, piu sono le stesse cose. (G. Lampedusa) . Global governance of the development conundrum cannot remain a club for the
576. POWER THRIVES ON INFLUENCING US. OH!, BUT IT DOES NOT LIKE TO BE WATCHED-OVER AND SCRUTINIZED. (Gabriel Fernandez)
. -We often look at ethics like a list of things we ought not do. But, actually, ethics is
575. THE MYTHS ABOUT WHAT THE PROMISED FREE-MARKETS-UNIVERSAL-CIVILIZATION WILL BRING ARE A HUMAN RIGHTS BOONDOGGLE. (Nicoletta Dentico)
. -For more than three decades, or at least since the end of the Cold War, the grand
574. CUSTOMARY, TRADITIONAL AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICES DISCRIMINATE AGAINST WOMEN and undermine the full implementation of international and national legal human rights codes. (SIGI)
. We need to see feminism, not only as addressing issues of gender, but rather as a methodological approach of understanding (and acting upon) the diverse ongoing
573. THE TOUGHEST TRANSITION HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS HAVE TO BRING ABOUT IS: BRING THE EVERYDAY APATHY OF PEOPLE TO EVERYDAY ACTIVISM. (United Edge)
. -As D‘Artagnan of the Three Musketeers said: When the sword is short, to hit, one has to move one
572. WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO REJECT AND CRITICIZE WHAT CONTRADICTS OUR INDIVIDUAL CONSCIENCE.
. 1. People are born into specific families or classes, and this largely
571. TO THINK OF OURSELVES AS THE HOLDERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IS TO BE PROPERLY PROUD OF HAVING THE SELF-RESPECT THAT IS NECESSARY TO BE WORTHY. (Joel Feinberg).
. -Having the right to place enforceable claims
