34. RIGHTS ARE GUARANTEED ENTITLEMENTS: RIGHT?
[The title question is a political and not a legal one: the legal obligation already exists!]. 1.The strength of a…
33. HUMAN RIGHTS ARE VERY MUCH ON THE AGENDA OF DEVELOPMENT WORK:
”The sovereignty of States must no longer be used as a shield for gross violations of Human Rights”. (Kofi Anan,…
32. A CALL FOR SUBSTANCE AND NETWORKING
The substance I do not know about you. But I have the feeling that not much is happening in advancing…
31. Human Rights and South-South cooperation
An intellectually sound analysis around the new Human Rights-centered development approach is needed to arrive at a collective platform or…
30. POTPURRI
More on accountability analysis Capacity/accountability analyses (that tell us why duty bearers at many levels do not seem to be…
29. ON VULNERABILITY, ACCESS AND DISCRIMINATION
Typical Human Rights questions one should ask about services are: Is there sufficient attention being paid to the most vulnerable…
28. ON THE ROLE OF THE STATE, THE UN AND CIVIL SOCIETY.
Human Rights are plainly not guaranteed by the existing institutional arrangements. (AmartyaSen) We have to understand this as a point…
27. DEVELOPMENT AND RIGHTS: THE UNDENIABLE NEXUS.
For this issue of the Reader, I find it fitting to excerpt and adapt from Mary Robinson’s (High Commissioner of…
26. CAVEAT EMPTOR: A PARTICIPATORY APPROACH IS NOT A HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACH!
Beware: The fashion is out. Everybody wants to jump into the bandwagon of Human Rights. It is coming to our…
25. FOOD FOR DONORS DEEP THOUGHTS
It should be clearer to many of you by now that focusing on sustainable poverty alleviation is inseparable from bringing…