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…

This Reader keeps reminding you that the Rights to Health, to Food, to Development are all Human rights (HR), not policy-options-that-governments-can-choose-to-adopt-or-to-ignore! It is thus not tolerable that governments observe only…

To start with, on matters of our time: 1.1. Does the war against terror not really divert the world’s attention from the underlying causes of growing global insecurity (and the…

The official neoliberal paradigm has actually created its own ‘counter-paradigm’; one that, for looks, embodies a highly ethical (yet apolitical) discourse. Its name: “Sustainable Development”, Sustainable development is a discourse…

In last instance, rights practices sow the seeds of a different social order since they hold duty-bearers effectively accountable. The struggle to replace ‘clientelism’ with rights is ongoing. (Clientelism is…

In the more specific case of health, there is a conflict between WB policies under the poverty reduction strategies (PRS) process and the Right to Health (RTH). Bank policies do…