“If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal”. (Emma Goldman as cited by M. Engler) The power of organization (communities) 20. Community organizing for democracy means building up organizations…
-In the name of democracy, too many promises remain unfulfilled for the poor majority; lingering poverty and a lack of transparent democratic processes flagrantly contradict the state’s rhetoric. There is…
-The same way you find water when you dig, sooner or later, man finds the incomprehensible everywhere. (A. Lichtenberg) -Because they are closed thought systems, the supposed advantage of all…
Nowadays, public health and the right to health have come to mean too many things to different people 15. Public health is a specialty in which health practitioners should have…
-Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. (Martin Luther King) -Health is not a matter of merely personal interest, but a…
1. Human rights learning (HRL) is necessary, precisely because knowledge in traditional capacity building in development work has been much fragmented to the disciplinary realm. Conversely, HRL is about how…
Who does not support human rights… or dolphins? 1. NGOs need to be more honest about their long-term achievements and non-achievements. Are they advocating for (the needed) more systemic political…
Historically, economic inequalities have made civil and political rights meaningless. This categorically demonstrates the importance of implementing economic, social and cultural rights. 1. Little by little, ‘the poor’ have become…
The vocabulary of social justice we must consistently adopt 15. Economic injustice is another clear cause of conflict; this is equally true for the uneven distribution of resources, for the…
-Social and economic climbing is so often accompanied by moral degradation. (Carlos Fuentes) -We know, ten times over, that free markets stand for the primacy of shareholder value over long…