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…
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…
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…