Let’s call a spade a spade: Globalization is a project of the North to globalize its corporate power. The market fundamentalism at its base is not only a system of…
We cannot continue with a popular education that is mostly reactive. 1. Popular education is a central part of the agenda of the human rights (HR) movement and must be…
1. These days, the market is presented to us as capable of resolving all problems –even of protecting human rights; but the latter, basically through the façade of corporate social…
We may be intelligent, but do we have the experience? If we do, it depends whether we learn-from and apply our experience! (F. Stern) Those who cannot remember the past…
Effective action requires not just an enthusiasm, but calls for a close rapport with the disgruntled so as to get them organized. (A. Robbins) 1. You may often have asked…
Some have calculated that, with current development trends remaining the norm, poverty will be eradicated in something like 70 or more years. ________ * : I agree with those who…
I have often been asked what is the most serious form of human rights violation in the world today, and my reply is consistent: extreme poverty. (Mary Robinson) 1. By…
Allow me to present these reflections in the form of bullets • A truly women-centered approach to human rights (HR) has to depart from the principle that there are an…
Communities –and not academics setting cut-off points– are the best qualified to identify the poor among themselves thus judging relative poverty. 1. In our work in health, we see equality…
The availability and allocation of budgetary resources says a lot about whether, how, and to what extent a government is committed and determined to implement its disparity reduction and thus…