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[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 234



*BEWARE: HUMAN RIGHTS ARE BEING INTERPRETED TO SUIT THE FREE MARKET*.



These days, the market is presented to us as capable of resolving all
problems --even of protecting human rights; but the latter, basically
through the façade of corporate social responsibility.

The market, it is said, must have access to everything. So people’s rights
must all be ‘conveniently’ modified to allow the market unregulated access.
But since thereby duties and obligations would be defined by the market,
inequality will clearly be legitimized --and marginalized and powerless
people will be further disenfranchised. Both equity and justice are thus
ignored in this attempt and are being replaced by paternalistic ideas
defined largely in market terms.

You can full text of this Reader at


http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/03/01/human-rights/beware-human-rights-are
*-*being*-*interpreted-to-suit-the-free-market/<http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/03/01/human-rights/beware-human-rights-are-being-interpreted-to-suit-the-free-market/>






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