CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan@phmovement.org Letter to the Editor UNSCN NEWS 42, 2017, pp133-135 Point: A one-sided understanding of the foreseen role of the key actors of the…
Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan@phmovement.org In the words of John Kenneth Galbraith, the essence of development work ough to be to mobilize rights holders against the current powers…
Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan@phmovement.org Abstract The paper explores the role transnational corporations under the capitalist accumulation regime have been playing globally in the non-sustainable exploitation of natural…
Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan@phmovement.org Abstract A short and well-justified critique of the concepts of resilience and sustainability as commonly used is presented. The discourse of ‘increasing resilience’…
Human Rights: Food for a narrowly focused thought Human Rights Reader 418 The current malnutrition problem around the world is not its double burden, but its multiple burdens. By narrowly…
Human rights: Food for a misunderstood thought Human Rights Reader 417 -An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. (Plutarch, ancient Greek…
Human rights: Food for an often-ignored thought Human Rights Reader 416 Most governments ignore their human rights obligations in health Currently, governments perceive no impending threat whenever they ignore their…
Human rights: Food for a not-by-chance thought Human Rights Reader 415 -Bernie Sanders put it best: “We not only have massive wealth and income inequality, but a power structure that…
Human rights: Food for a punishing thought Human Rights Reader 414 Politics without value-grounded ideas stimulates corruption (Revista Primera Piedra) 1. In its true sense, politics is to be taken…
Human rights: Food for a thought to be fought-for Human Rights Reader 413 We can safely say that, in the case of health, inequality is a passive outcome: ‘it happens’;…