268 A BRIEF INQUIRY INTO MARKETS, CAPITALISM, GLOBALIZATION, CORPORATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
-Liberalism defends the interests of the intellectual elite; conservatism defends the interests of the financial and industrial elite. The question…
267 ACTIVITIES ACHIEVE OUTPUTS. PROGRAMS ACHIEVE OUTCOMES. BUT TO ACHIEVE HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT, CLAIM HOLDERS HAVE TO BECOME DE-FACTO CLAIMANTS.
-For the HR paradigm to impose itself, small is beautiful, but big is necessary. (F.H. Abed) -The thinking that created…
266 THE REAL POTENTIAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS LIES IN ITS ABILITY TO CHANGE THE WAY PEOPLE PERCEIVE THEMSELVES VIS-A-VIS THE GOVERNMENT.
Human rights are intrinsic values that give all human beings dignity. 1. Human rights (HR) are a foundation of the…
265 HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS OPPOSE ANY ALTERNATIVE PARADIGM THAT FINDS ITS PLACE WHERE TRADITIONAL DEVELOPMENT PARADIGMS HAVE ALREADY BEEN. (part 2 of 2)
– When one leaves behind problems without solutions, one does not leave, one absconds. (Jerome Koenig) – A powerful interest…
264 HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS OPPOSE ANY ALTERNATIVE PARADIGM THAT FINDS ITS PLACE WHERE TRADITIONAL DEVELOPMENT PARADIGMS HAVE ALREADY BEEN. (part 1 of 2)
1. As human rights activists, we do engage in combating the inertia rooted in many of our fellow development workers…
263 HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT A TOOL THAT ACCEPTS POVERTY; HUMAN RIGHTS ARE A WAY TO FIGHT IT. (Julius Nyerere)
-The fields of the poor may yield much food, but the same is swept away through injustice. (Proverbs 13:23) -If…
262 WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH THE HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE THAT IT HAS SO FAR BEEN UNABLE TO BECOME AN AUTHENTIC MASS RENEWAL MOVEMENT?
A contemporary philosopher asked himself: Is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism?…
261 CLAIM HOLDERS HAVE HUMAN RIGHTS ‘INSIDE THEM’. HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT JUST GRACIOUS CONCESSIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.
-We cannot take scarcity-of-resources as a reply to claim holders’ demands without asking why scarcity. -They may be able to…
260 THERE STILL ARE TOO MANY SKEPTICS AROUND REGARDING THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE MORAL IDEA UNDERPINNING THE RIGHTS OF HUMAN BEINGS.
-Is morality a private matter? Decency certainly is a public matter… -Intellectuals pride themselves for their logic, but logic, by…
259 A TALE ABOUT INHUMAN WRONGS AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
Is it facetious to say that ever more people are ever more worse-off? 1. Human Rights (HR) provide an authoritative…