Human rights: Food for a youth-reminding thought Human Rights Reader 412 The future will ultimately either go in the direction of the youth’s commitment, or along their indifference about human…
The human rights framework, a major instrument for accountability, is under attack 1. The UN is explicitly an intergovernmental body; if UN member states do not like human rights (HR)…
Keep in mind: The power of the people is stronger than the people in power. (Babu Owino) Human rights embody a social learning process originating from social struggles for legal…
-We are, more and more, seeing a process of outsourcing the international development agenda. – The narrative of ‘progress’ is no longer sustainable. (Steven Smith) Innovation is not a prerogative…
In many parts of the world, cows are given more rights than women. (Huffington Post) We cannot let anybody forget the-female-face-of-poverty 1. Women are subjected to multiple and intersecting discrimination…
Claudio Schuftan, Member of the Steering Council of the People’s Health Movement, Saigon, Vietnam International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Second Edition, 2, 2017, 438–441 . The People’s Health Movement (PHM)…
EDITORIAL Social Medicine/Medicina Social, Vol.10, No.2, August 2016, pp.36-40. Also available in English as “How is the human rights-based approach to change the ethics and praxis of achieving universal health…
1. For the last 25 years, I have been in the global health in development business; mostly addressing it from the perspectives of health and nutrition and, short term, in…