– When one leaves behind problems without solutions, one does not leave, one absconds. (Jerome Koenig) – A powerful interest of a few has the potential to sway the situation…
1. As human rights activists, we do engage in combating the inertia rooted in many of our fellow development workers (including those that do not believe in anything, or that…
-The fields of the poor may yield much food, but the same is swept away through injustice. (Proverbs 13:23) -If the rich could hire others to die for them, we,…
A contemporary philosopher asked himself: Is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism? 1. According to the same philosopher, we tend to ignore…
-We cannot take scarcity-of-resources as a reply to claim holders’ demands without asking why scarcity. -They may be able to cut all the flowers, but they will never stop spring.…
-Is morality a private matter? Decency certainly is a public matter… -Intellectuals pride themselves for their logic, but logic, by definition is deprived of moral responsibility. -By definition, the essence…
Is it facetious to say that ever more people are ever more worse-off? 1. Human Rights (HR) provide an authoritative legal and moral framework to tackle the deep-rooted causes of…
-It is in General Comment 28 that we find the more precise guidance of what equal rights of men and of women really mean. -States that are party to the…
As opposed to a human rights activist, the indifferent person has been called a ‘passivist’ (Geoffrey Cannon) – The world is not dangerous because of the bad people that are…
Human rights work ought to constantly look for political points of entry. 1. Human rights (HR) are global affairs, i.e., matters that straddle national borders, as well as matters that…