-In public health, we uncritically assume scarcity of resources without asking why scarcity. -WHO comes with technical advice, the World Bank comes with money….countries usually prefer the money. D. The…
-In public health, we uncritically assume scarcity of resources without asking why scarcity. -WHO comes with technical advice, the World Bank comes with money….countries usually prefer the money. A. The…
-By applying a human rights lens, development is understood as unequivocally people-centered. -We know democracy, development and human rights are interdependent and mutually reinforcing. Therefore, sustainability has to be understood…
-We will succeed inasmuch as we display the capacity to mobilize collectively behind human rights as a political goal independent-of and often opposed-to the goals that motivate the state and/or…
-Social immobility ends up being the result of weak consensus. (Albino Gomez) …and reports of growing civic discontent are typically not found in newspaper columns. (adapted from Hans Dembowski) -By…
-All humans have rights. But the question is: Do all of them know that…and do they know what their human rights are? (Shula Koenig) -People will have to know their…
The truth is that there are no purely or primarily economic solutions to human rights problems. -Human rights is an unapologetic project for social emancipation in which suffering is related…
-Ultimately, by using the human rights-based framework, we strive to negotiate a new social contract or class compromise from a position of strength and power. (Ted Schrecker) 1. The process…
-There is a clear difference between having a right and having a right realized. Slaves in the US had the right to freedom before President Lincoln and native Africans in…
-Martin Luther King did not say “I have a nightmare”. (L. Stoddard) -Our future may be beyond our vision, but not beyond our control. (Senator Edward M. Kennedy) 1. History…