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817. MY 2026 INCENSED AND DISCONCERTED STATED OF MIND: CALLING A SPADE A SPADE. 816. CHAO CENTER-LEFT, HELLO FASCISM. 815. HEALTH OVER PROFIT EVERYWHERE! HOW TO OVERCOME THE PRIVATIZATION OF HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS. 814. THE PURPOSE OF HUMAN RIGHTS LEARNING OUGHT TO BE TO UNLEASH AND AMASS SOCIAL POWER SO THAT THE LATTER CAN EVOLVE INTO POLITICAL POWER. 813. THERE IS NO TYRANNY MORE CRUEL THAN THAT WHICH IS EXERCISED UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE LAW AND IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE. (Montesquieu)
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296 EVERY SOCIETY UNEDUCATED IN HUMAN RIGHTS IS EASILY TRICKED BY CHARLATANS. (adapted from Condorcet)

September 8, 2016 admin

When asked “What should we do about human rights?” Voltaire answered, “Let the people know them”. 1. I am convinced –and I have said so repeatedly– that we need to…

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295 PEOPLE HAVE RIGHTS, BUT THAT IMPLIES LITTLE IF THEY LACK A SPECIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THAT MEANS IN PRACTICAL TERMS. (part 2 of 2)

September 8, 2016 admin

It is better to light a light than to complain about darkness. (Confucius) Capacity building for action 16. For capacity building, the Cape Town team successfully uses the adult education…

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294 PEOPLE HAVE RIGHTS, BUT THAT IMPLIES LITTLE IF THEY LACK A SPECIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THAT MEANS IN PRACTICAL TERMS. (part 1 of 2)

September 8, 2016 admin

It is better to light a light than to complain about darkness. (Confucius) . 1. The human right to health (RTH) has wrongly been contested for many reasons. These include

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293 MANY PEOPLE IN DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES STILL DO NOT REALLY CARE ABOUT ADOPTING THE HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK. THEY ‘FEAR’ IT WILL LEAD TO A POLITIZATION OF THE HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE…

September 8, 2016 admin

It is easy to be a revolutionary at 20, but difficult to be one for 20 years. 1. The word politization draws many fears; you and I know that. But…

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292 WHAT CAN WE DO TO INTENTIONALLY SHAPE OUR COLLECTIVE DESTINY? (part 2 of 2)

September 8, 2016 admin

The future is now 22. Scenario One: Doctors love high tech gadgets and treatments; nothing wrong about this love affair. But high tech treatments drain resources away from the kinds…

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291 WHAT CAN WE DO TO INTENTIONALLY SHAPE OUR COLLECTIVE DESTINY? (part 1 of 2)

September 8, 2016 admin

1. Our collective destiny is not in our hands. It is in the hands of a handful of powerful agencies over which we have no control. It is our respective…

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290 THERE IS A WRONG USE OF VERBS WHEN REFERRING TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK. WE DO NOT SAY ‘ENCOURAGE’, ‘LOBBY’, ‘DISCUSS’ OR ‘UNDERTAKE EFFORTS TO’; WE SAY ‘DEMAND’ –AND FOR THAT WE EMPOWER

September 8, 2016 admin

-As the French would say: Human rights are “difficilement opposables”, but are also “difficilement imposables”. -People have the right to be happy even if they are not allowed to. (Antonio…

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289 THE CORNERSTONE OF EQUALITY AND OF HUMAN RIGHTS IS TO VALUE ALL PERSONS EQUALLY.

September 8, 2016 admin

-Inequalities are staring us in the face now, but will be shouting at us after MDGs-year 2015. (C. Gore) -Once and for all: There is no such a thing a…

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288 HUMAN RIGHTS ARE COMPELLING IN THE ABSTRACT, BUT IMPOSSIBLE IN PRACTICE AS LONG AS THERE IS NO ACCOUNTABILITY.

September 8, 2016 admin

1. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) both serve accountability purposes, but must be directed towards human rights standards and principles if they are to have even a chance to improve the…

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287 IN HUMAN RIGHTS WORK, IT IS THE HIGHLY UNEQUAL RELATIONS OF POWER THAT SEVERELY LIMIT THE TERMS OF CITIZENS’ ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AND REPRESENTATION.

September 8, 2016 admin

1. Oppressed people that lack the capacity for collective action are historically doomed. That is where empowerment comes-in in human rights (HR) work. Actually, for us, the very meaning of…

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