<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 247</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">HUMAN RIGHTS EMBRACE THE NON-ECONOMIC
DIMENSIONS OF DEVELOPMENT*.</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <b>THEY PROMOTE AND CONSOLIDATE SOCIAL
SOLIDARITY. THEY ARE NOT A DISPLAY WINDOW; THEY ENTAIL A DISTINCT PROGRAM, A
FULL-BLOWN MOVEMENT.</b> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">_______</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">*: The truth is that there
are no purely or primarily economic solutions to human rights problems. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:153.0pt">
-Human
rights is an unapologetic project for social emancipation in which suffering is
related to powerlessness and freedom to living in dignity. (A. Yamin) </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:153.0pt">-A dose of religious altruism,
of non-religious generosity and just a vague adherence to human rights will simply
not be able to overturn the current mal-development paradigm. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:153.0pt">-It is the shifting from needs
to socially and legally guaranteed entitlements, and from charity to duty and
to dignity that underpins human rights work. (A. Donald, S. Koenig)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:153.0pt"><span style="font-size:19px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:153.0pt">
<span style="font-size:19px">For<span style="color:blue"> </span>each of us human rights
activists, the challenge is: How can the rules of the new human rights (HR) movement
replace our routine? Innovations are fiercely resisted by some of our peers,
precisely because they redefine the rules they are comfortable operating under.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:153.0pt"><span style="font-size:19px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:153.0pt">
<span style="font-size:19px">To read the full Reader, go to</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:153.0pt"><span style="font-size:19px"><a href="http://wp.me/plAxa-1ca" target="_blank">http://wp.me/plAxa-1ca</a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:153.0pt"><span style="font-size:19px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:153.0pt"><span style="font-size:19px">Claudio</span></p>
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