. 1. Unite States citizens tend to assume that history marches forward and that their children will do better than they did. This is a fundamental tenet of the American…
We have to change our outlook, because, otherwise, those rendered poor appear as responsible of their ill-health. What the dominant public health model calls ‘diseases of poverty’ should actually be…
-Language is also a form of action. (Albino Gomez) 1. The Human Rights Readers are not intended to have success; they intend to lend testimony.
There is a need for a legally binding human rights law instrument (or ‘treaty’) to regulate the activities of TNCs. A Catch 22?: The failure of TNCs to pay taxes…
“I am deeply wary of CEOs who claim to be guided by a moral compass, because they ultimately only navigate waters their shareholders chart”. (Selvanathan 2015). Very few PPPs have…
Politics and politicians without ideas stimulate corruption* (Revista Primera Piedra, Chile) Not being facetious, are the political ideas of certain corrupt politicians soluble in alcohol? (Louis Casado) 11. I tend…
The more unequal the power imbalance the greater the oppression and the greater the abuses of human rights Power dresses up with certain attributes (wealth, force, manipulative financial know-how). A…
Neoliberalism should not be separated from a more general understanding of capitalism -The notion that free markets are the most efficient and desirable basis of human organization and the claim…
-Just as even the most determined athlete cannot overcome the limits of the human body, we cannot escape the limits of our moral responsibilities. (Adam Waytz) -One humanity? Yes, but…
A bit of history: Human rights from then to now 1. Powerful barons in the year 1215 (the Year of the Magna Carta), the advancing bourgeoisie of the eighteenth century,…