Today, too much emphasis is placed on representative rather than direct democracy. We forget that the beginnings of democratic development in Europe were not marked by elections, but by struggle…
Who will live and who will die has already been decided by the economic structures brought about by globalization (P. John) These days, bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) are totally…
If you recognize and agree with a) the indivisibility of rights, b) the equal importance of people’s socio-economic entitlements, and c) the principle of equity, you must accept that this…
Are we here to make a point or are we here to make a difference? (Kul Gautam) NGOs purporting to promote the human rights-based framework (HRBF) are actually often using…
We do not need to define ‘group rights’ and ‘collective rights’. They are already well defined. The Right-to-Development is the best known group right; it sees people-who-are-poor as a group…
We all know that it is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. Human rights activists are repeatedly faced with the need to figure out…
1. Long centuries of poverty and injustice have accumulated too many insatisfactions, too much misery and too much indignity, as well as a heavy load of preventable ill-health, malnutrition and…
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power. (Montesquieu) Let’s face it: The majority of laws in a country are passed…
Human rights (HR) are based on the assumption that there are things that ought not to be done to any human being or things that ought to be done for…