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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 264</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS OPPOSE ANY ALTERNATIVE PARADIGM
THAT FINDS ITS PLACE WHERE TRADITIONAL DEVELOPMENT PARADIGMS HAVE ALREADY BEEN.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.5in">In dedicated human rights work, it
is not about being a bit more leftist or a bit more centrist than others, but
it is to offer a viable and better perspective for the future --one in which
human rights activists are willing to engage-with actively. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">In human rights work, there is no zone of an ‘ideological zero’ though.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">[Note:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> These
two Reader do not intend to be ‘self-congratulatory’ by aggrandizing the image
and the role of human rights activists. I here only explore what human rights
activists do, can-do, have-to-do and need-to-do --adaptable to the specific
settings they work in].</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">As human rights activists,
we <span style="color:blue">do</span> engage in combating the inertia rooted in
many of our fellow development workers (including those that do not believe in
anything, or that believe that everything is useless).<span style="color:blue">
</span>But at the same time, in our work, tolerance wins over rigidity and over
personal interests. [Note here that tolerance should not mean or be understood
as indifference, but as an attitude, one not avoiding conflict].</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; ">We all<span style="color:red"> </span><span style="color:blue">do</span> strongly feel we
have to act in the name of a vision that is motivating, that goes along with
our moral duty, that is not rooted in any dogma. We all also strongly feel that
we cannot just cross our arms and do nothing.</span></p><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>To read the full Reader, go to</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wp.me/plAxa-1of">http://wp.me/plAxa-1of</a> </div><div><br>
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