220 A VISION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WITHOUT A WIDELY SHARED ACTION PLAN LEADS NOWHERE.
It is not incumbent upon you to finish the task, but neither are you free to absolve yourself from it. Abraham Lincoln said: The probability that we may fail in…
219 DEVELOPMENT POLICY (..AND HUMAN RIGHTS WORK) IS NOT ABOUT (ETHICALLY MOTIVATED) ALMS FOR THE POOR. (H. Wieczorek-Zeul)
Development has become hostage to finance. Finance has to serve development and not, as it is presently, the other way around. (Yash Tandon) 1. Under neoliberalism, the prevailing development paradigm…
218 WHERE THERE IS NO EFFECTIVE CLAIMING FOR REDRESS, THERE ARE SIMPLY NO PROSPECTS FOR EFFECTIVE HUMAN RIGHTS.
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…
24. Why refer to ‘Food AND Nutrition’
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…
25. The People’s Health Movement
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…
217 VALUES, POLITICS, DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
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…
216 SICK, UNDERFED, UNDERPAID, DISCRIMINATED AND OVERLOOKED, THE EXCLUDED ARE AT THE CENTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS WORK.
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…
215 SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER
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…
214 ACTIVISTS’ ACTIONS ARE NORMALLY MORE ENDURING WHEN DRIVEN NOT ONLY BY SELFLESS INTEREST, BUT ALSO BY A CERTAIN SENSE OF SELF-INTEREST. (A.R. Ghatak)
-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…
26. Philanthrocapitalism
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…