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[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 310

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*IS YOUR GOVERNMENT DOING WHAT IT SHOULD ON HUMAN RIGHTS? ARE YOU FOLLOWING
UP IF IT DOES? *(part 1 of 2)



Vigilance is needed to uncover the shortcomings in the application of human
rights by any given state. Under no matter what circumstances, preventable
injustice must be exposed, because it cannot be seen as an inevitable, even
if temporary, consequence of under-development. Shortcomings in abiding by
human rights principles are often systemic and deeply entrenched, arising
from institutional failures rather than from the wrongdoing of individual
officials.


  Key for all of us is to carry out an analysis of the links between
conduct and results thus moving beyond the conventional ‘events-based’
monitoring we often embark-on. It is all about building evidence of
failures to fulfill economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights, i.e., about
building a well-evidenced argument about the state’s compliance or
non-compliance with its obligation to fulfill ESC rights.  Ultimately, it
is about securing remedies for ongoing violations identified, as well as
about advancing reforms for preventing them in the future.

For the full Reader, go to

http://wp.me/plAxa-1FC

Claudio
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