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…
The goal of providing human rights to all in the world is as inspiring and formidable a challenge as any extraterrestrial adventure. (J. Cohen and D. Bloom) As sad as…
Oblivious to the teachings of history, international free trade is being promoted to the rank of ‘development motor’ as if development would be the same as preparing the population for…
Every person, anywhere in the world –irrespective of citizenship or territorial legislation– has rights that others should respect. (Amartya Sen) Further, human rights (HR) are blind to nationalities and are…
We live in a world of high-flown objectives, ambitious target setting and obscure acronyms. MDGs and PRSPs make virtually no allowances for human rights (HR) or for environmental protection. Moreover,…
Under capitalism, to lament the current increase in inequality is to bemoan the economic growth paradigm itself. In a world where 51 of the world’s 100 biggest economies are corporations,…
History is always written by the winners; the losers are obliterated and the winners write the history books which glorify their own cause and disparge the conquered foe. By its…
The Human Rights struggle is complicated; in some ways, it becomes a struggle against a part of ourselves, the selfish part of what we are –individually and collectively speaking. (C.…
Going through the following questions may give you a clue… Do you engage in any of the following?: Advancing people’s health rights, be it in Primary Health Care, in patients…
The critical evaluation of human rights (HR) in a country addresses generally disagreeable issues, such as abuse of power, tyranny by those in positions of political responsibility, disrespect for the…