Human Rights as an Ecosystem
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- Written by Claudio Schuftan
- Category: Analysis
INSTEAD OF SEEING THE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT LIKE A MONOCULTURE, WE SHOULD LOOK AT IT AS AN ECOSYSTEM. (C. Rodriguez-Garavito)
-Human rights are philosophical; they are holistic; they are a secular religion with its own commandments. (Shula Koenig) But does the philosophy behind human rights depend on science? It does not. Nevertheless, human rights cannot and do not ignore scientific facts. As they do so, human rights cannot and do not build a philosophy-of-the-spirit like in the times of Descartes. Human rights advance when their practitioners dialogue with their peers and with human rights’ very own history, as well as when they ask relevant questions pertaining to other related domains. (Albino Gomez)
-It is not enough to write the word HUMAN RIGHTS in upper case or in color font in a document, or make any other kind of linguistic acrobatics to make it stick. What is at play is the deep meaning and action-orientation of human rights.
Panel discussion, El Jazeera, on basic income
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The Beginning of the End of a neoliberal approach to development
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- Written by Ha-Joon Chang/The Guardian
- Category: Analysis
We should take note of what we see as the beginning of the end of the neoliberal approach to development. The process of discrediting that development model begins in the aftermath of the east Asian financial crisis of 1997–98.
At the time there appeared to be nothing new in the nature of the east Asian crisis or in the crisis response. But, in fact, the east Asian crisis marked the gradual beginning of the end of the neoliberal consensus in the development community.
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Why the poor don't exist ...
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- Written by Charles Knox-Vydmanov/HelpAge International
- Category: Analysis
An interesting article on why the poor don't exist and what this means for social protection policies...
The sorry state of corporate taxes
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- Written by McIntyre, Gardner, Phillips
- Category: Analysis
What Fortune 500 firms pay (or don't pay) in the USA and what they pay abroad (2008-2012) ...
most interesting to read
Ending Poverty
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- Written by OECD
- Category: Documents
The OECD report on development cooperation in 2013 about 'ending poverty', looking for a fast way to achieve this goal ... It also has a chapter on 'social protection', seen as a tool for ending poverty ... important for those who still believed 'social protection' was about building welfare states ...
Africa Rising? Inequality and the Role of Fair Taxation
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- Written by TJN Africa and Christian Aid
- Category: Analysis
After a decade of high growth, a new narrative of optimism has taken hold about Africa and its
economic prospects. Alongside buoyant growth rates, there has been some poverty reduction and
some positive progress in sectors such as health and education. However, despite this, there is a broad
consensus that progress in human development has been limited given the volume of wealth created.
There is growing concern that the high levels of income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa are holding
back progress.
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Profiting from crisis
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- Written by Cecilia Olivet and Pia Eberhardt/TNI
- Category: Analysis
Corporations, backed by lawyers, use international investment agreements to scavenge for profits by suing Europe’s crisis countries. While speculators making risky investments are protected, ordinary people have no such protection and – through harsh austerity policies – are being stripped of basic social rights.
A must-read report on the power of corporations
European Parliament votes to pierce secrecy of trusts in anti-money laundering bill
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- Written by Nikolaj Nielsen/EUObserver
- Category: Analysis
A draft bill designed to crack down on money laundering and fraud was backed by a vast majority of MEPs in Strasbourg on Tuesday (11 March).
With only 30 MEPs opposed, the anti-money laundering bill requires companies, trusts and foundations to list the names of people who own them in inter-connected public registers set up in each member state.
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Understanding the relationship between corruption and illicit financial flows
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- Written by Ann Hollingshead/GFI
- Category: Analysis
In many ways, both illicit financial flows and corruption are undefined and relative. For that reason, they’re both notoriously difficult to measure. The difficulty in measuring them in the first place may be part of the ambiguity surrounding their connection. Ambiguity aside, however, these concepts are highly interrelated. Here’s how.
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Universal Health Coverage
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- Written by Oxfam International
- Category: Documents
Oxfam report on why the poor are often left behind when it comes to health care: health care has to be universal and most of all health coverage has to be universal
