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…
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…
The powerful exploit enormous advantages For those in power, the money they amass is never enough; with all the notoriety and success it can buy them, it also becomes the…
Democracy is in recession (Thomas Friedman) -Our current ‘democracies’ are nothing more than the government of a minority throwing overboard the human rights of a majority. (adapted from Thomas Jefferson)…
Tomorrow must be more than just another today 1. In development work, it is actually the result of a willful effort by our leaders–those with the right ideals– to effect…
Ultimately, successwill depend on how we contribute to foster the achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in a human rights-compliant manner. (H.R. Schillinger) So,in order to add significant leverage…
Ultimately, successwill depend on how we contribute to foster the achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in a human rights-compliant manner. (H.R. Schillinger) So,in order to add significant leverage…
So much is offered to us through indicators-stuffed networks that we live in constant awe for not being able to absorb it all –and much more so, not having the…
1. Could it be that the problem with religion is that it is somehow transformed into law, because it derives from a divine authority? But God talks to man like…
Hegel somewhere remarked that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgotto add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. (Karl Marx, The…