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,…
-The world we know today is merely a story someone has told us, but it is not the true story we need to make sense of millennia-long oppressions. (Paulo Coelho,…
Mea culpa on behalf of me and my colleagues? 1. In all truth, the human rights (HR) community has not yet developed a truly effective strategy to dealing with globalization.…
-The struggle against inequality, against human rights violations and against poverty calls for activists willing to struggle for life. -Without conflict there is no progress. (William Blake) -The challenge activists…
1. Specialized UN agencies are supposed to take international action for the achievement of the human rights (HR) recognized in UN covenants. With a few exceptions, most notably ILO, specialized…
Fair priority setting is essential to the realization of the right to health. 1. Achieving justice in health-care priority setting involves applying a range of substantive ethical and ideological principles…
Where we came from Having concentrated too long on the basic human needs approach was a time consuming diversion from any serious attempt to change the prevailing unjust order. 1.…
-To better learn from purported development miracles, it is necessary to demystify them. (Jomo Sundaram) -Myths about human rights are like zombies that never seem to die. It is only…
-As relates to the abuse of power, take the issue of transnational corporations (e.g., ‘Big Food’): As evident from their trade associations and non-governmental front organizations, they work as a…
-The most successful transnational corporations in the world are those that are maiming the planet and many of its people –and the rich countries that house those TNCs are the…