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<span style="font-size: 10pt; "><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">Human Rights Reader 265</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS OPPOSE ANY ALTERNATIVE PARADIGM THAT FINDS ITS PLACE WHERE TRADITIONAL DEVELOPMENT PARADIGMS HAVE ALREADY BEEN. </span></b>(part 2 of 2)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue; "> </span></p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "> <span style="font-size: 14pt; ">-</span> A powerful interest of a few has the potential to sway the situation for many.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2in; ">
<span style="color: blue; "></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 2in; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">- </span>The truth of the activists does not coincide with that of the ones that accumulate wealth. (Doing good for the cause of justice requires personal, unselfish commitment; doing good for any other cause requires incentives that buy commitment).<span style="color: blue; "> </span>The words of truth are not written with gold, but with blood, with tears, with mother’s milk and/or with excrements.<span> </span>A society happy in its anesthesia does not need activists. Actually, such a society has found the way to silence activists. Activists are the denouncers of inertia --of no action on human rights. (C. J. Cela)<span style="color: blue; "></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; "><b> HR activists are <span style="color: blue; ">expected to determine</span>:</b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; "></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.25in; ">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Whether any HR elements have been incorporated into the country’s development agenda and whether additional elements still need to be introduced.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Whether HR elements are being implemented by the state at all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Whether implemented HR actions are making progress as quickly as possible.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Whether specific HR policies are being effective and have eliminated prior HR violations.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Whether non-discrimination is being universally ensured and how.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Whether international cooperation is playing a positive role in fostering HR.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Whether victims have the possibility to assert their rights and have access to mechanisms of redress.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Whether what should be getting done is not being done.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Whether what is being done is done incorrectly and/or inadequately, and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.25in; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Symbol; "><span>·<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; ">Whether steps are being taken towards progressively realizing specific HR with appropriate benchmarks being achieved.</span></p>
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