The human rights-based approach (HRBA) signals a ‘new deal’ in the annals of development work. It shifts the focus from technocratic to political solutions and to the empowerment of claim…
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. This notion ignores the all important economic, social and cultural rights. Let us take examples from health and nutrition you can…
HIV/AIDS is an example of a challenge that, in the last at least ten years, changed the political landscape in the health sector. One can ask, why has the HRBA…
January blog Claudio Schuftan Ho Chi Minh City. After a long seven months in the US, I am back home. In about two years, my wife and I are planning…
Other attributes of the human rights-based approach (RBA): A mini-SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis: Some of the RBA’s perceived strengths are Other attributes of the human rights-based approach…
The bullets here below recap what it means to apply a holistic rights-based lens in development practice, be it in health, in education or in any other sector. They also…
The human rights (HR) problems we are trying to solve deserve constructive and informed solutions –not least for the sake of the poor people waiting for an improvement of their…
An unlikely alliance of rock stars, politicians, and grassroots activists has put the issue of combating poverty at the forefront of global policy making. Poverty is the result of many…
With their unchallenged dominance of fundamentalist market ideology, transnational corporations have time and again violated human rights (HR), disregarded core labor standards, disregarded on-the-job safety standards affecting the health of…