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816. CHAO CENTER-LEFT, HELLO FASCISM. 815. HEALTH OVER PROFIT EVERYWHERE! HOW TO OVERCOME THE PRIVATIZATION OF HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS. 814. THE PURPOSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS LEARNING OUGHT TO BE TO UNLEASH AND AMASS SOCIAL POWER SO THAT THE LATTER CAN EVOLVE INTO POLITICAL POWER. 813. THERE IS NO TYRANNY MORE CRUEL THAN THAT WHICH IS EXERCISED UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE LAW AND IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE. (Montesquieu) 812. THE RECOGNITION THAT THERE IS CERTAIN HUMAN RIGHTS LANGUAGE THAT NEEDS TO SHIFT IS IMPORTANT. (Ben Phillips, Patreick Gathara)
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395 OUR JOB IS TO MAKE SURE HISTORY IS OF ALL OF HUMANITY. (S. Harrison)

September 8, 2016 admin

What is history, but a fable agreed upon? (Peter Hoeg) Until the lions write their story, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter(Rene Loewenson) Take Africa: history was…

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394 CAN WE GET AWAY FROM SPURIOUS MYTHS SUCH AS HUMAN RIGHTS NOT HAVING UNIVERSALITY AND LEGITIMACY?

September 8, 2016 admin

Human rights are not just the prerogative of prosperous nations; (neither are social protection institutions). (M. Loewe). 1. A widespread lack of understanding-of and misperceptions-about human rights (HR) is one…

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393 POLITICAL RIGHTS ARE GUARANTEED BY THE STATE AS THE ULTIMATE DUTY BEARER. SOCIAL RIGHTS MUST BE CONQUERED, PROCLAIMED AND DECLARED BY CLAIM HOLDERS.

September 8, 2016 admin

-Are human rights a shared charade or are they to be seen as a sign of moral and political progress? -As a matter of priority, the strugglefor substantive equality must,…

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392 THINK OF IT: HUMAN RIGHTS ARE PART AND PARCEL OF THE MANDATE ACTUALLY GIVEN BY THE PEOPLE TO THE STATE.(Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2015)

September 8, 2016 admin

Allow me to start this Reader with an homage to the late Urban Jonsson with whom I worked for many years on many human rights issues –not always agreeing, it…

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391 LOCALLY ORGANIZING IS TO BUILD MORE CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT TO BUILD A MORE JUST, MORE EQUITABLE AND LESS COMMERCIALIZED SOCIETY ATTUNED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN RIGHTS.

September 8, 2016 admin

1. Growth of a veritable human rights network is needed to succeed in coordinating actions that particularly pursue achieving a greater degree of social cohesion, of solidarity, of expanded contacts…

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390 OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT FOR GLOBAL HEALTH JUSTICE; IT IS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND JUSTICE, AS WELL AS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH WITH JUSTICE. (Lawrence Gostin)

September 8, 2016 admin

1. The reason why global health policy-makers are not implementing the knowledge generated by global health scholars with the right empirical, every-day experience, is not because they use different normative…

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389 IF THE POLITICS ARE NOT FAVORABLE TO SPEAKING TRUTHFULLY ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS THEN CLEARLY WE MUST DEVOTE MORE ENERGY TO CHANGING THE POLITICS. (M. Moses) Part 2 of 2

September 8, 2016 admin

Our time is marked by the predominance of fear over hope 10. A pact between the different constituencies of claim holders must be the result of a political reading that…

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388 IF THE POLITICS ARE NOT FAVORABLE TO SPEAKING TRUTHFULLY ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS THEN CLEARLY WE MUST DEVOTE MORE ENERGY TO CHANGING THE POLITICS. (M. Moses) Part 1 of 2

September 8, 2016 admin

1. These days, international politics is too fragmented to achieve much, especially asso many political leaders are guided by corporate interests. (H-J. Luhmann) As a consequence, nationstates,rich and poor, have…

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387 SCORE: SDGs 1, HUMAN RIGHTS 0? THE SDGs ARE A POLITICALLY NEGOTIATED CONSENSUS THAT HAS NO SIGNIFICANT HUMAN RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM BUILT IN.

September 8, 2016 admin

SDGs: “We must avoid every temptation to fall into a declarationist nominalism which would assuage our consciences.” (Pope Francis) 1. Unfortunately, the Sustainable Development Goal targets shied away from explicitly…

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386 THERE ARE DIFFERENCES IN HUMAN RIGHTS: THROUGH HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION WE KNOW THEM; THROUGH HUMAN RIGHTS LEARNING WE LIVE THEM. (posthumously, Jerome Koenig)

September 8, 2016 admin

Human Rights Learning (HRL) is badly needed for more and more people to start recognizing the roots of their vulnerability and for them to recognize how these are related to…

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