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…
Politics is not just something to be studied; it is something you either do, or let others do to you. (P. Iglesias, PODEMOS, Spain) 1.Politics is more than an object…
-“Some dare not speak about human rights (HR) any longer, because the term has been prostituted by the son’a bitches that hijacked it for their own use and ‘wore it…
1. Consider the following list of iron laws about poverty and equality as highlighted by Philip Alston, the Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights • Poverty and wealth…
1. An examination of the history of almost any type of social movement, including human rights (HR) movements, shows that there are great spurts of action, of organization followed by…
1. The reduction of extreme poverty is undeniable in some regions, but the reduction worldwide remains limited.* Just consider: 75% of the world’s people today have no access to basic…
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes human rights as the most important of the four ‘pillars’ in the UN Charter, when stating: “The recognition of the inherent dignity and…