505 HOW MANY LIVES IS INEQUALITY IN HEALTH RESPONSIBLE FOR?
. 1. Equality in health is here defined
504 DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT GIVEN, AND ARE MORE THAN WORTH FIGHTING FOR.
1. Democracy is a constant struggle for compromise –forever a construction site. An end is never in sight as people will always have to renegotiate how they live together. This…
503 THE CONTAGIOUS SOCIAL PASSIVITY OF MANY CLAIM HOLDERS IS OUR ACHILLES HEEL.* (Arturo A. Muñoz)
*: Does this include us all reading this? Human rights remain far from being universalized -A good friend tells me that the problem with many of our peers and colleagues…
502 MULTISTAKEHOLDERISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A CRITICAL LOOK. (Part 2 of 2)
Corporate Agendas 21. Behind every multistakeholder initiative (MSI), there is a decision by a corporation to engage since, at best, it is keen to improve its social and environmental record…
501 MULTISTAKEHOLDERISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A CRITICAL LOOK. (Part 1 of 2)
(adapted and summarized from Nick Buxton, editor, TNI) -As public-private partnerships (PPPs) mushroom, core human rights mechanisms established since the late 1940s are being underfinanced and weakened. Defining multistakeholderism 1.…
500 MY READERS ARE NOT INNOCENT; THEY ARE AN EXAMPLE OF THE TRUE EXERCISE OF FREE SPEECH.
-“If it is possible to live without writing, do it.” (Gabriel Garcia Marquez quoting Reiner Maria Rilke) -I think a writer writes only one book,
499. EVERY GENERATION HAS AN EQUAL RIGHT TO ENJOY OUR NATURAL RESOURCES. (George Monbiot)
Human rights: Food for an insufficiently cared-for thought ‘The rights of nature’ Human Rights Reader 499 1. What Monbiot highlights and reminds us-of calls for some serious questions: • Can…
498. DISEASE IS AN INALIENABLE FACT OF LIFE, BUT LACK OF ACCESS TO ADEQUATE HEALTH CARE IS NOT.
Human rights: Food for a non-charitable thought ‘Access to health’ Human Rights Reader 498 -Coverage is not the same as access! 1. Considering health as an-end-for-economic-development represents a purely utilitarian…
497. “HE WHO CONTROLS THE PAST CONTROLS THE FUTURE; HE WHO CONTROLS THE PRESENT CONTROLS THE PAST”.
Human rights: Food for an Orwellian thought ‘HR and Big Brother’ Human Rights Reader 497 -The title of this Reader comes from Big Brother, the character in George Orwell’s novel…
496. I DO NOT KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT OLD BOYS CLUBS FRUSTRATE ME.
Human rights: Food for escaping a thought ‘Old boys clubs frustrate me’ Human Rights Reader 496 -The difficulty in people’s work lies not so much in developing new ideas as…