PHM-Exch> Food for an eco-systemic thought

[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 335


*INSTEAD OF SEEING THE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT LIKE A MONOCULTURE, WE SHOULD
LOOK AT IT AS AN ECOSYSTEM.*


Does the philosophy behind human rights depend on science? It does not.
Nevertheless, human rights cannot and do not ignore scientific facts. Human
rights advance when their practitioners dialogue with their peers and with
human rights' very own history, as well as when they ask relevant questions
pertaining to other related domains. It is not enough to write the word
HUMAN RIGHTS in upper case in a document, or make any other kind of
linguistic acrobatics to make it stick. What is at play is the deep meaning
and action-orientation of human rights.


To read the full Reader, go to

http://www.socialmedicine.org/?p=6732

Claudio
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