459. DEALING WITH THE ISSUE OF THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH.
-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…
458. GLOBALIZATION PUTS THE FREEDOM OF PRIVATE BUSINESS ABOVE THE FREEDOM OF PEOPLE AND THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS. HUMAN BEINGS BECOME HUMAN RESOURCES.
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…
457. THE DANGER OF ABUSING HISTORY IS THAT IT FLATTENS OUT THE COMPLEXITY OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF THE HAVE-NOTS AND LEAVES NO ROOM FOR DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS OF THE PAST. (M. MacMillan)
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.…
456. WHAT WE ARE NOT DOING THROUGH THE SDGs IS MEASURING THE DISPARITY REDUCTION RATIO* FROM HERE TO 2030.
*: 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…
455. TRUE DEMOCRACY IS ACTUALLY ‘THE’ DELIVERY SYSTEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS. (Shula Koenig)
-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…
454. THE CHALLENGE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS UNFORTUNATELY OFTEN IS THAT THEY HAVE TO DRIVE THE TRAIN AT THE SAME TIME THAT THEY ARE LAYING THE TRACKS.
-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:…
453. VIVA LA COMUNICACIÓN! ABAJO LA TELE-COMUNICACIÓN! THERE ARE NO LONGER VISIONS, THERE ARE TELE-VISIONS; WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE HUMAN RELATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS?
-Television is chewing gum for the eyes. (Frank Lloyd Wright) Do not be fooled: The media are ‘ideology formers’. We have to hold them responsible for the introduction and sustaining…
452. REDUCING INEQUALITY CANNOT BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT REDISTRIBUTING CURRENTLY AVAILABLE RESOURCES MORE FAIRLY.
. 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…
451. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ‘DISEASES OF POVERTY’ THERE ARE ‘DISEASES OF WEALTH WITH INEQUALITY’.
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…
450. THE READERS ARE EXPRESSLY WRITTEN TO HIT THE READER BELOW THE BELT. (paraphrasing John Steinbeck).
-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.