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Experience has shown that, in development work, we now have to change our tactics: We will no longer ask for political will or commitment, but instead, will push governments on their legal obligation.

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 Injustice is a social disease that needs to be combated with the force of an epidemic. We have no other world except this one; it is difficult to imagine improving it without changing it. (CETIM) 1. The need to push duty bearers on their legal obligations is neither new nor only true for national leaders; [...]

An indictment of foreign aid: Is it too late?

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States do not have friends, only interests. (Charles de Gaulle)   1. As we have it now, foreign aid is instrumental in decreasing constructive social, economic, and political tensions and internal contradictions that would tend, sooner or later,  redress or resolve the growing imbalances and injustices of the prevailing internal exploitative system in many a [...]