Variations on a theme by Salman Rushdie. Inspired, plagiarized and paraphrased from his novel “Fury”, Vintage Books, Random House, London, 2002. What makes the world go round should not be…
Human Rights in the development discourse have reached a stage-of-no-return with the climate for the adoption and application of human rights principles and obligations slowly, but steadily increasing. (W.Barth-Eide) 1.…
1. Since most scholarly articles on human rights (HR) fall, without making much of a sound either in the academic forest or in the real world, actively establishing HR responsibilities…
Rich countries still think the West is the center of the world and that salvation must (patriarchically) come from that quarter. 1. Can we muster the power of conviction and…
Together with Dennis Kucinich, the ex-US presidential candidate, we see poverty as a weapon of mass destruction. 1. Is poverty reduction per-se an independent, stand-alone goal in the human rights-based…
Since there needs to be a push for an international paradigm shift among top decision-makers/duty-bearers, do we really have a choice not to take political sides? 1. Democracy and the…
WE ARE SWARMED BY TOO MANY STATISTICS AND DATA THAT, AT THE END OF THE DAY, PROVIDE LITTLE VALUABLE ACTIONABLE INFORMATION THAT MAKES A CHANGE . -These days, we do…
April blog Claudio Schuftan Here above is my hero Rudolf Virchow. He was a social visionary who in the late 1840s, articulated the social – and the economic and political…
February blog Claudio Schuftan En route to Kinshasa. Consulting work is catching up with me once again. This time I will spend a week in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo)…
March blog Claudio Schuftan Here is a picture of my dear friend and colleague Dr Ravi Narayan of the Centre for Public Health and Equity, Bangalore. Beginning in 2003, he…