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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">132+133. If a state has ratified a treaty, it is legally bound to implement it: a reiteration.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">134. Human rights and the corridors of power.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">135. “Bread and health for all before cake and circus for anyone”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">136. In human rights work, cliché thinking in terms of good and evil is not helpful at all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">137+138. The human rights-based approach: A distilled inventory of its essential attributes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">139. Human rights questions I wish I had concise answers for.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">140. Many still think human rights are about political prisoners and street demonstrations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">141. It is not an exaggeration to say that the human rights-based approach is in a different league than other approaches to development: it is the ‘make or break’ issue of our time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">142. Human rights are no longer a-preoccupation-that-is-best-left-aside for ‘others’ to worry about.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">143. Power makes even the ugliest look handsome.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">144. Programs for the poor most often are poor programs: reducing the income gap between the poor and the non-poor is the real challenge for human rights activists.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">146. Group rights and collective rights are not the sum of individual rights.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">147. Because of their universality, sovereignty must sometimes come second to human rights. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">148. From the human rights perspective, power imbalances underlie health inequities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">149. Moral progress does not exist; we are not more moral today than what we were a hundred or a thousand years ago.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">150. Free trade agreements, millennium development goals, and human rights: working at cross-purposes?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">151. Human rights have to be a core component of the promotion of democracy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">152+153. Jonsson’s credo.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">154. Human rights have to be transformative rather than just simply easing human suffering. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">155. Public health brings a counterbalance to the individual-centered view of human rights. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">156. The rich have power because of their money, and the poor have power because of their numbers and their potential for organizing around human rights principles.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">157, 158, 159+160. Exploring a critical, systemic approach to health rights.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">161. Human rights obligations rich countries are not honoring.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">162. Human rights and poverty alleviation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">163. Human rights have to go from the conceptual, to policy to action.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">164. From a human rights perspective, public health stands at a crossroad. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">165. Human rights activists are not social engineers; they are public mobilizers. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">166. It is only when potential individual benefits are seen more clearly as being high that people are more willing to actively engage in work leading to the realization of their rights.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">167. The recognition of human rights such as they are expressed in international instruments is not enough for their realization.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">168. Do statistics serve the human rights cause well?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">169. The lack of funding to carry out national or local human rights assessments should not delay us in launching them!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">170. The respect of the right to health is a reflection of a society’s commitment to equity and justice. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">171. More iron laws that affect human rights: use them!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">172. Physical capital wears out; social capital does not. The more it is used in exercising direct democracy, e.g., to combat human rights violations, the stronger it gets.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">173. Human rights violations are no longer a private affair, because they now have a political dimension.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">174. Gender equality is not just a women’s issue, but a development and a human rights issue. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">175. The human rights discourse is globalization-skeptic and IFIs*-skeptic. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">176. The human rights discourse is also MDGs-skeptic.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">177. In some cases, the human rights discourse is religion-skeptic.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">178. Of claim holders, duty bearers and agents of accountability. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">180. Social progress has always depended on public pressure. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">181. In the development debate, the perception of poor people as people in need rather than as people with legitimate rights puts them totally out of step with the rights-based framework. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">182. We do not need more philanthropy and patriarchy; we need more emphasis on human rights.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">183. Clarifying the responsibility of the different levels of government is at the center of the dialogue between claim holders and duty bearers. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">184. In human rights work, we cannot wait for political will --we need to generate it!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">185. When we stand naked before the unvarnished mirror of truth, what we see is what we really are. Often what we are is what we civilize ourselves to disguise (or what we choose not to be outspoken about). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">186. International NGOs demand more funds from donors but, with those funds, they often do not address crucial problems such as those related to deplorable local human rights situations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">187. The purpose of freedom from want is to create it for others.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">188. We hear endless appeals-to and laments-about the lack of political will to address human rights issues. An active engagement by civil society means we no longer have a need to resort to the concept of political will!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">189. In human rights work, when you deal with symptoms you generate sympathy, when you deal with causes you create social change.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">190. Corporate social responsibility does not revolve around human rights concerns or charitable intentions; it revolves around business interests.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">191. Corporations need clear, binding human rights rules.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">192. Human rights: while small success stories are certainly possible, needed global reforms are being hampered.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">193. In this, its 60<sup>th</sup> anniversary, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still a kind of conscience of the world --or even more-- today it can be considered customary international law. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">194. Keep in mind: in human rights work we are in a struggle not only for accountability, but also against impunity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">195+196. The human right to health care process revisited.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">197. The human right to health and to adequate nutrition in a structurally unequal society.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">198. To define yourself as a human rights activist means initially going against the current.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">199. Human rights violations are not only ‘social regrettables’. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">200. A human rights-based poverty line is possible: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It is one that points to the income level at which human rights are fulfilled in practice in every particular context.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">201. The human rights-based framework is here to put right avoidable wrongs worldwide.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">202. In the spirit of the Paris Declaration on Development and Cooperation the improvement of foreign aid is not seen purely as a technical matter of better harmonization, but as a political quest to more decisively focus development on human rights. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">203. Something has gone terribly wrong with the promotion of democracy: Our elected leaders are far from treating (and not only looking at) poverty as the most important underlying condition of human rights violations. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">204. The preamble of WHO’s constitution unequivocally states that the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being: is WHO living up to its mandate?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">205+206. Health sector reform measures: have they worked?... And where do we go from here?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">207, 208+209. Health care as a right: what you need to know.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">210+211. Human rights are part of a never-ending human struggle to improve people’s lives and to prevent reoccurrences of past abuse.</span></p>
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