Before becoming de-facto claimants, the excluded come from an experience of being treated by bureaucrats in a way that echoes colonialism. 1. Human rights are mostly of the yes/no dichotomous…
WHY WE NEED TO FOCUS ON FOOD NOT FORGETTING NUTRITION! As a small group of concerned nutritionist, we have, for long now, been uneasy about the fact that the discourse…
THE PEOPLE’S HEALTH MOVEMENT By now you know I have, for long, been very involved in the People’s Health Movement (PHM). I am one of the two dozens or so…
1. In this day and age, if one looks at the political spectrum in rich countries, value politics overshadow and outdo class politics. As a consequence, in most of these…
Human rights work is about first greatly reducing –and then putting an end –to the dynamics of exclusion. 1. In human rights work, we see exclusion as no longer being…
The struggle of man against power is the struggle between memory and forgetfulness. (Milan Kundera). 1. We do not live in a just world. Delivering justice to those who are…
-Most of us are passionate about what we do. But the truth is that a good part of what we do does not matter to what we are passionate about…and…
Conflicts of interest within philanthrocapitalism? * The term philanthrocapitalism is used to describe a growing movement which aims to harness the power of the market in order to achieve social…
Implementing the human rights framework in a participatory way is equivalent to exercising direct democracy (as opposed to representative democracy which has basically left rights holders in the cold). 1.…
As human rights workers, our loyalty is recognized when we can feel ashamed about the behavior of our own government. (F. Stern) We need to tell our leaders the truth,…