232 ACTIONS AND ACTIVISM IN FOSTERING GENUINE GRASSROOTS PARTICIPATION IN HEALTH AND NUTRITION.
Effective action requires not just an enthusiasm, but calls for a close rapport with the disgruntled so as to get…
231 THE RESPONSIBILITY OF RICH COUNTRIES FOR THE PERSISTENCE OF IMPOVERISHMENT* AND ILL-BEING** IN POOR COUNTRIES: A HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED INDICTMENT OF THE MDGs.
Some have calculated that, with current development trends remaining the norm, poverty will be eradicated in something like 70 or…
230 POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
I have often been asked what is the most serious form of human rights violation in the world today, and…
229 SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN.
Allow me to present these reflections in the form of bullets • A truly women-centered approach to human rights (HR)…
228 FOCUSING ON EQUALITY OF RESULTS (BEYOND EQUALITY OF ACCESS) IS THE NEEDED STEP TOWARDS SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THUS TOWARDS HUMAN RIGHTS.
Communities –and not academics setting cut-off points– are the best qualified to identify the poor among themselves thus judging relative…
227 DISPARITY REDUCTION, NATIONAL BUDGETS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
The availability and allocation of budgetary resources says a lot about whether, how, and to what extent a government is…
226 IT IS NOT INEQUALITIES THAT KILL PEOPLE; IT IS THOSE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE INEQUALITIES THAT KILL PEOPLE. (Vicente Navarro)
People that happen to be poor need jobs and a livelihood; to agonize about inequality is, for them, a luxury.…
225 OPPOSING COUNTER-POWER TO POWER…
1. Public sector interventions impinge on a vast array of human rights issues. Quite predictably, these interventions reflect the distribution…
224 THE DILEMMA IN HUMAN RIGHTS WORK: WHEN ARE SERVICE DELIVERY, CAPACITY BUILDING, ADVOCACY AND SOCIAL MOBILIZATION REALLY EMPOWERING?
Disclaimer: i) The empowerment of some entails the dis-empowerment of others –usually the current holders of power. ii) Empowering people…
223 ‘ELEMENTAL WATSON’: HEALTH SECTOR REFORM HAS, SO FAR, IGNORED THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH.
1. Ministries of health around the world claim they have carried out ‘a’ health sector reform; they argue that by…