Andrea Cornwall, Karen Brock (2004) https://www.academia.edu/2636098/What_do_Buzzwords_do_for_Development_Policy?email_work_card=view-paper . 1. The SDGs (MDGs in the original paper) serve as a good example of the ‘extravagance in promising future benefits’. It represents a…
-Are we going to allow the status-quo to continue playing itself out, i.e., continue playing “the game of the status-quo?” What three social reformers had to say: How relevant today?…
-Take care of the quality of life and the quantity will take care of itself. (Cicely Williams) Start by thinking: Health is an animal condition, but most of our ill-health…
1. As I have said repeatedly, human rights (HR) represent ethical positions. A right, however, does not mean the same in the HR system as applied as it does in…
-It is here fitting to paraphrase the adage of seeing the trees and not the forest. As the world tries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), most practitioners do…
– “Where, after all, do universal human rights (HR) begin? In small places, close to home –so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of…
-Yes, poverty has a spider web of causes; we need to get at the spider that builds the web. (Nancy Krieger) -Money has rained on jungles and deserts for 50…
-Reality has three levels: objective, subjective and inter-subjective. The first is bulletproof, the second disappears when the person that believes in it passes, and the third one persists for centuries…
1. What I have to say here pertains to a series of serious questions building up on me as an experienced human rights activist over the last 25 years. The…
-Inequity exists, equity one has to fight for. (Hernan Sandoval) Equality means equal access and outcomes for equal need -It is policy failure, more than anything else that prevents us…