Add a comment March 6th, 2011 by Matthew Anderson
Food for a passivist thought Human Rights Reader 257 [As opposed to a human rights activist, the indifferent person has been called a ‘passivist’. (G. Cannon)] – The world is not dangerous because of the bad people that are in it, but because of the good people who see evil and do nothing. (Albert Einstein) [...]
1 Comment September 18th, 2010 by Matthew Anderson
Food for a human rights learning thought Human Rights Reader 248 -All humans have rights. But the question is: Do all of them know that…and do they know what their human rights are? (S. Koenig) -People will have to know their human rights if they are to be able to even assess what it means [...]
Add a comment March 16th, 2010 by Matthew Anderson
We cannot continue with a popular education that is mostly reactive. 1. Popular education is a central part of the agenda of the human rights (HR) movement and must be oriented towards redefining development policies, as well as redefining the concept of social, ethical and environmental responsibility in the different sectors of our respective [...]