1 Comment November 20th, 2011 by Claudio Schuftan
Food for a not really altruistic thought Human Rights Reader 276 The human rights-based framework opens our eyes to the outdated traditional model of aid. Since the new human rights narrative focuses on global justice and on pluralism, it criticizes international development agencies as ‘a cosmopolitan elite that is wrongfully embracing Globalization’ and [...]
1 Comment September 4th, 2011 by Claudio Schuftan
Food for a thought that does not represent the people Human Rights Reader 271 Accountability in foreign aid The international legal regime established through the various human rights treaties is the existing global accountability framework which we should be drawing upon much, much more. 1. Efforts to increase the type of [...]
Add a comment August 21st, 2011 by Claudio Schuftan
Food for a thought that does not represent the people Human Rights Reader 270 The role of claim holders and duty bearers* 1. With an emphasis on development results that actually ought to be seen as fulfilled human rights, duty-bearers become accountable in a variety of ways: through budgetary allocations, through building capacity [...]
Add a comment August 23rd, 2009 by Matthew Anderson
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; [...]
2 Comments August 11th, 2009 by Matthew Anderson
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 [...]
