. Setting the stage 1. The two decades following the Cold War were celebrated and decried as the era of globalization. Critically speaking, the long-term trend of globalization masks a…
Religion and Science 1. Insofar as religion makes claims in the area of science –which it does, because it talks about creation, about the nature of the universe and about…
-Human rights activists cry out, not just to rescue others from their oppression, but to preserve what is left of their own dignity. (K. H.) -I do not do this…
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…