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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal">Human
Rights Reader 314</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style><span style="font-size:14.0pt">FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, RETURNING TO PRE-CRISIS STATUS-QUO
WILL NOT SUFFICE.</span></b><span style> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.0in"><span style>To a chronic problem we cannot apply crises methods.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The climate, the economic
and financial, the food and the fuel prices crises we have been faced with
underscore yet again the need to organize and mobilize for badly needed social
changes -- and also the need to actually grasp the unprecedented opportunities
these crises offer for doing so.* It is <u>challenges that make women and men
prove themselves</u>! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style>*: The collateral
damage from these concomitant crises has extended, not least on human rights
(HR) territory. But it has also increased people’s hostility towards the market
economy model….and this is an opportunity.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">To prevent a return to
business as usual in a move that leads us nowhere, the roots of all these
crises need to be understood by the majority of people so they understand the
nature, the self-interest bias and the limitations of the elites’ responses to
these crises.<span style> </span>These
responses merely contribute to the winners getting the accolades and the losers
being pushed under and into despair.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Not really as a surprise,
contemporary macroeconomics does not even deal with the subject of crises. To
crises we respond with relief efforts. But the human rights-based framework has
blurred the traditional distinction between relief agencies and those active in
people’s development. Jumping-in with short term life-saving aid through quick
interventions and then leaving has now become insincere and disingenuous.</span></p>
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