419. FOR THOSE OF US WHO ADVOCATE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IT IS NOT ABOUT JUST TO CONVINCE OTHERS, BUT TO RECOMMIT OURSELVES. (Ken Harvey)
-Human rights activists cry out, not just to rescue others from their oppression, but to preserve what is left of…
122 AS I SEE THE CHALLENGES OF THE UN DECADE OF NUTRITION: SOME KEY POINTS.
CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan@phmovement.org Letter to the Editor UNSCN NEWS 42, 2017, pp133-135 Point: A one-sided understanding…
121 WHY POWER ONLY YIELDS TO COUNTER-POWER.
Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan@phmovement.org In the words of John Kenneth Galbraith, the essence of development work ough…
120 ARE THE RIGHTS OF NATURE BEING TRAMPLED? A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE.
Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan@phmovement.org Abstract The paper explores the role transnational corporations under the capitalist accumulation regime…
119 YES, RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY ARE TOO NARROWLY DEFINED.
Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan@phmovement.org Abstract A short and well-justified critique of the concepts of resilience and sustainability…
418 IN A WORLD DOMINATED BY MARKETS, WHERE RESOURCES FLOW TOWARD POWER INSTEAD OF NEED, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE REALLY CARED MORE ABOUT HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION FROM A RIGHT TO NUTRITION PERSPECTIVE? (Brooke Aksnes)
Human Rights: Food for a narrowly focused thought Human Rights Reader 418 The current malnutrition problem around the world is…
417 POVERTY REDUCTION AS A GOAL SOUNDS LOVELY, BUT THIS FAIRY TALE VISION OF DEVELOPMENT AND OF HUMAN RIGHTS BETRAYS A SERIOUS MISUNDERSTANDING OF POVERTY. (J. Hickel)
Human rights: Food for a misunderstood thought Human Rights Reader 417 -An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest…
416 HEALTH-RIGHTS AND JUSTICE-IN-GLOBAL-HEALTH HAVE A UNITY OF PURPOSE: TO GUARANTEE HEALTH OPPORTUNITIES AND OUTCOMES FOR MARGINALIZED POPULATIONS.
Human rights: Food for an often-ignored thought Human Rights Reader 416 Most governments ignore their human rights obligations in health…
415 INEQUALITY HAS BEEN A CHOICE. GLOBALIZATION THRIVES ON EXISTING INEQUALITIES. (Joseph Stiglitz)
Human rights: Food for a not-by-chance thought Human Rights Reader 415 -Bernie Sanders put it best: “We not only have…
414 THE GREATEST PUNISHMENT FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT INTERESTED IN POLITICS IS THAT THEY ARE GOVERNED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE. (Arnold Toynbee)
Human rights: Food for a punishing thought Human Rights Reader 414 Politics without value-grounded ideas stimulates corruption (Revista Primera Piedra)…