Human rights: Food for a non-celebratory thought Human Rights Reader 460 -We rather ought to look with serious concern on the more immediate future of human rights (HR). 1. Very…
Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan@phmovement.org Abstract Inequality in health is a morally significant fact in itself. Yet the current status of health inequality trends among and within countries…
Claudio Schuftan, People’s Health Movement, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Abstract Historically, political elites adopted the idea of human rights if, and only if, it could foster their interests. Today,…
Claudio Schuftan The current malnutrition problem around the world is not its double burden, but it is multiple burdens. Thus the question is: by narrowly focusing on the greater appeal…
-So many people have no other teacher than the street and no other doctor than death. (Eduardo Galeano, Apuntes para Fin de Siglo) 1. You have to be aware that…
Globalization is obviously rewarding already acquired capital, not human beings 1. Those left out from the benefits of globalization look up at the winners, whom they see succeed simply because…
Let me start with a disclaimer -Have we been bewitched by history? -Why has history, that was a goddess for Hegel, eventually become a vaudeville stage for so many? 1.…
*: i.e., the annual rate at which each country is closing the gap between its current economic disparity score and the best expected anywhere for the year 2030. -In the…
-Democracy was born at the local level, and that is where we can win it back. (Barcelone en Comú) Human rights violations are not an unfortunate stain on an otherwise…
-Activists’ work is about recruiting the heart and training the brain. (Hesperian Foundation) 1. For a good human rights activist, a problem well-defined is half-solved. This is why, for them:…