199 HUMANRIGHTS VIOLATIONS ARE NOT ONLY ‘SOCIAL REGRETTABLES’.
A new social awareness has to be created about the fact that human rights violations are socially constructed events and must thus be tackled with public policies and actions nationally…
198 TO DEFINE YOURSELF AS A HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST MEANS INITIALLY GOING AGAINST THE CURRENT.
-Right now, for the oppressed to “become” and to “be”, they can use our help as activists. (Mario Benedetti) -We are the ones we have been waiting for. (Health Care…
197 THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH AND TO ADEQUATE NUTRITION IN A STRUCTURALLY UNEQUAL SOCIETY.
1. I would like to think that you -as me- often ask yourself what we could all do better to achieve greater equity through what we do given that we…
28. On equity and equality
Yes, equality is key to sustainability. In the post 2015 development agenda, it is not simply about ‘extending’ the MDGs towards SDGs. It is not about reformulating , dropping or…
196 THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE PROCESS REVISITED. (Part 2 of 2)
9. A human right to health (RTH) strategy is to be seen as both a technical and a political task in the realm of our struggle for health-as-a-right-for-everyone-NOW. The question…
195 THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE PROCESS REVISITED. (Part 1 of 2)
Health is neither an expenditure nor an investment: Primarily and foremost it is a right. 1. For starters, let us look at what the human right to health care process…
194 KEEP IN MIND: IN HUMAN RIGHTS WORK WE ARE IN A STRUGGLE NOT ONLY FOR ACCOUNTABILITY, BUT ALSO AGAINST IMPUNITY.
It is pertinent that, at this juncture, this Reader revisits some human rights principles 1. To begin with, at the core, is the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction which says that…
193 IN THIS, ITS 60TH ANNIVERSARY, THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IS STILL A KIND OF CONSCIENCE OF THE WORLD –OR EVEN MORE– TODAY IT CAN BE CONSIDERED CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW.
Many of you may feel a sickening sense of impotence about the widespread situation of injustice the world over; yet if these feelings of disgust could be united into common…
192 HUMAN RIGHTS: WHILE SMALL SUCCESS STORIES ARE CERTAINLY POSSIBLE, NEEDED GLOBAL REFORMS ARE BEING HAMPERED.
1. Although the World Bank (and related international financial institutions) pay lip service to progressive human rights (HR) policy, in practice, they continue to promote centralized, unsustainable projects. All summed…
29. Big Food and the World Economic Forum
WN Update World Nutrition Volume 4, Number 8, October-December 2013 Journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association Published monthly at www.wphna.org/worldnutrition/ Editor’s note. Big Food Watch. on the cover…