1. In this Reader, let me add some key ideas about empowerment, i.e., about people gaining mastery over their lives,…
It is the existing global set-up and norms that ultimately limit our range of choices and constrain our actions in…
Development blues Inequalities are pressing at the seams of our social fabric. (Christine Lagarde) 1. At present, in the development…
1. Some may say the Readers present a depressing outlook. But pessimism is not my personal inclination;* it rather is…
We cannot lose a democracy we never had 1. The illusion of democracy is just one of the many illusions…
-We are weary of those who speak human rights and deny them to their own people (or perhaps do not…
Have we fallen into the trap of using the language of neoliberals so that they are able to shape how…
-We live in societies where everything is globalized; ancient ancestral cultures and human rights are marginalized by the economic processes…
-The most important qualitative and valuable change a human rights activist can make in her/his life is to stop judging…
What’s truly lacking is performance in politics. Why do good men go and hide? (Jerome Koenig) Many politicians oversimplify. Sometimes…