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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 310</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">IS YOUR GOVERNMENT DOING WHAT IT SHOULD ON HUMAN
RIGHTS? ARE YOU FOLLOWING UP IF IT DOES? </span></b><span style>(part 1 of 2)<span style="color:#d1753f"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:ideograph-numeric"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Vigilance is needed to uncover the
shortcomings in the application of human rights by any given state. Under
no matter what circumstances, preventable injustice must be exposed, because it
cannot be seen as an inevitable, even if temporary, consequence of
under-development. Shortcomings in abiding by human rights principles are often systemic
and deeply entrenched, arising from institutional failures rather than from the
wrongdoing of individual officials. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Key for all of us is to carry out an analysis
of the links between conduct and results thus moving beyond the conventional
‘events-based’ monitoring we often embark-on. It is all about building evidence
of failures to fulfill economic, social and cultural (ESC) rights, i.e., about building a well-evidenced
argument about the state’s compliance or non-compliance with its obligation to
fulfill ESC rights.<span style> </span>Ultimately, it is
about securing remedies for ongoing violations identified, as well as about
advancing reforms for preventing them in the future.</span><br><br>For the full Reader, go to<br><br><a href="http://wp.me/plAxa-1FC">http://wp.me/plAxa-1FC</a> <br><br>Claudio<br><br>