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…
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…
-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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…