132 IF A STATE HAS RATIFIED A TREATY, IT IS LEGALLY BOUND TO IMPLEMENT IT: A REITERATION. (Part 1 of 2)
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…
131 SOME QUESTIONS WITH HUMAN RIGHTS IMPLICATIONS THAT ARE SELDOM ASKED.
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 1. The Causes of Hunger and Malnutrition: Macro and Micro Determinants Macro and micro causes of malnutrition Diagnosing the…
41. Nutritionists and globalization
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…
130 HOW WE, HR ACTIVISTS, ARE DUPED: JUST A FEW EXAMPLES.
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…
129 THE RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGES THE NATURE OF STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS.
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…
128 YESTERDAY’S FUTURE HAS ARRIVED: THE POST-WASHINGTON CONSENSUS ONLY HAS A PITIFUL VAGUE ORIENTATION TOWARDS THE ERADICATION OF POVERTY AND ILL-HEALTH AS HUMAN RIGHTS PRIORITIES. (Part 2 of 2)
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…
127 YESTERDAY’S FUTURE HAS ARRIVED: THE POST-WASHINGTON CONSENSUS ONLY HAS A PITIFUL VAGUE ORIENTATION TOWARDS THE ERADICATION OF POVERTY AND ILL-HEALTH AS HUMAN RIGHTS PRIORITIES. (Part 1 of 2)
The ongoing neoliberal global restructuring is mostly driven by a handful of political superpowers and a small and declining number of large multi-national corporations; they directly and indirectly hold the…
126 MDGs ARE TO (EVENTUALLY) END EXTREME POVERTY, NOT MOST POVERTY; SO, WHERE ARE HUMAN RIGHTS LEFT?
How can we be content with health for half when health for all is possible? The MDGs are too little too late. Let’s face it: The 1978 Alma Ata Declaration…