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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 246</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">HUMAN RIGHTS ARE ABOUT PEOPLE BEING IN
CONTROL OF THEIR<span> </span>CHOICES.</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> (</span>A. Yamin)<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in">-Ultimately,
by using the human rights-based framework, we strive to negotiate a new social
contract or class compromise from a position of strength and power.<span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in">(T.
Schrecker) <span style="color:#3366FF"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The process of globalization
with its progressive accumulation of economic and political capital sees human
rights (HR) as a threat, because the HR-based approach (HRBA) emerges as an
alternative to neoliberalism by focusing on divergent and rival imperatives and
justifications. <span> </span>Conversely, the HRBA sees
neoliberalism as a threat, as an economic system out of control, as bringing
uncertainty, as dependency-creating, as excluding. It sees it bringing about
fear, aggression, fundamentalism, as well as creating ever-expanding spaces for
private interests. Despite all these self-serving attributes, neoliberalism
survives as the dominant way of thinking in development. Its economists push more
for individual rights (e.g., property), for limited state activity and for a
free-wheeling market; they say the poor are responsible for their own poverty. </span>(Development
in Practice)<span style="color:blue"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Put another way, hidden in the unacceptable current
social differences and social injustices is the neoliberal economic model with
much money, much poverty, much silence, much omission, much disdain, much
disillusion.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><font color="#3333FF">To read the full Reader, go to:</font></span></p>
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