PHM-Exch> Food for a campaigner's thought

[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 265



*HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS OPPOSE ANY ALTERNATIVE PARADIGM THAT FINDS ITS PLACE
WHERE TRADITIONAL DEVELOPMENT PARADIGMS HAVE ALREADY BEEN. *(part 2 of 2)


                                                - A powerful interest of a
few has the potential to sway the situation for many.

- The truth of the activists does not coincide with that of the ones that
accumulate wealth. (Doing good for the cause of justice requires personal,
unselfish commitment; doing good for any other cause requires incentives
that buy commitment). The words of truth are not written with gold, but with
blood, with tears, with mother’s milk and/or with excrements.  A society
happy in its anesthesia does not need activists. Actually, such a society
has found the way to silence activists. Activists are the denouncers of
inertia --of no action on human rights.  (C. J. Cela)






* HR activists are expected to determine:*

·      Whether any HR elements have been incorporated into the country’s
development agenda and whether additional elements still need to be
introduced.

·      Whether HR elements are being implemented by the state at all.

·      Whether implemented HR actions are making progress as quickly as
possible.

·      Whether specific HR policies are being effective and have eliminated
prior HR violations.

·      Whether non-discrimination is being universally ensured and how.

·      Whether international cooperation is playing a positive role in
fostering HR.

·      Whether victims have the possibility to assert their rights and have
access to mechanisms of redress.

·      Whether what should be getting done is not being done.

·      Whether what is being done is done incorrectly and/or inadequately,
and

·      Whether steps are being taken towards progressively realizing
specific HR with appropriate benchmarks being achieved.



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Claudio
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