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…
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…
1. The Causes of Hunger and Malnutrition: Macro and Micro Determinants 1. The Causes of Hunger and Malnutrition: Macro and Micro Determinants Macro and micro causes of malnutrition Diagnosing the…
January blog Claudio Schuftan San Jose, California. Since I am back in the Americas for holidays, I start this month by quoting some views of the prominent Uruguayan journalist and…
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…