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Recognizing employment as a fundamental human right is the most important policy to promote full employment.

Actividades extractivas tienen que integrar los intereses estratégicos y las urgencias económicas de los gobiernos con las demandas de los pueblos indígenas.

Until the demand decreases for extreme crude, the conflict between rights and resources will continue.

The expansion of the extractive frontiers affects the territories of local populations in Latin America.

Conference report of the 24th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence,Geneva Switzerland.

Conference report of The 24th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva, Switzerland.

The success of Israel’s innovative water technology is distracting attention from its restrictions on Palestinian access to water.

With only a quarter of the world’s population having access to social protection, the case for expanding it is gaining ground in international discussions. The debate focuses on how best to design social protection, whether it should be universal...

3 and 4 October, the UN General Assembly in New York discusses the global governance of international migration and development. A key theme will be the “mainstreaming of human rights into all aspects of the migration debate”. With so few countrie...

Although the MDGs are arguably the most politically important pact ever made for international development, they harbor several lessons for their successor framework.

A new system is needed for global governance, in which there is harmony and balance between shared values.

In its report ‘Barely Surviving,’ Human Rights Watch addresses the detention, abuse and neglect of migrant/asylum-seeking children in Indonesia.

Criticism of East Asia’s alleged self-interest-led development aid can also be applied to Western donors.

Mandela was an ethical realist, who rejected confrontation both at home and internationally.

In Brazil, as elsewhere, the state has no qualms about using brutal force in defence of economic projects in the interest of capital

The protest movement in Brazil has been likened to an awakening giant, that is now suddenly out of control. 

Turkey needs to address human rights and inequality to be a role model for emerging powers.

Sustainable development goals should pay more attention to sanitation, gender and rural areas.

The international post-2015 development agenda is in need of a comprehensive water development framework based on widely shared ethical principles.

The public-public partnerships that are currently being implemented throughout Latin America are an important, but often neglected, alternative to water sector privatization. 

Cooperation with private corporations is a serious threat to the human right to water.

More guidelines on food security include the Right to Food. At the same time donors and governments heavily support private sector development to increase agricultural investment and growth. The focus should be kept on smallholder farmers. 

Water is a public good, not a commodity. The ultimate goal after 2015 for water and sanitation is making it accessible to all citizens. 

The focus of the inequality debate seems to be more and more on economic growth without acknowledging that human development is a prerequisite for poverty reduction. Also, human development is a basic human right.

Doing something about the numerous inequalities we face in this world, encompassing so many domains is on everybody’s lips these days. But what is the result? What place will the true addressing of inequalities bring us in the post 2015 era? Actua...

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The recent revolution in Egypt introduced long-awaited change in the country. But plenty of challenges lie ahead. In its effort to create a tolerant society that lifts the entrenched social, political and religious divides, the human rights moveme...

Brazil's new-found status as an economic power and conflict mediator has led some to question their motives. President Dilma Rousseff will have to find ways to deflect accusations of self-interest and regional hegemony.

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Claudio Schuftan from the People’s Health Movement (PHM) makes it very clear that he is an MDG skeptic. And he strongly persuades his readers to question the ‘deficit-filling approach’ to poverty, malnutrition and health. He takes it even further,...

The Millennium Development Goals have provided a forum for discussion on poverty and development at the international level. They have contributed to bringing the devastation of poverty and inequality to the forefront of the international arena. Y...

Some of the criticisms directed to the MDGs when they were agreed were about their minimalist nature. Many observers saw them as a perhaps too narrow distillation of the outcomes of the conferences of the 1990s. So the issue was: after all the eff...

Already, before the MDG summit has even kicked off, the German chancellor Angela Merkel has pointed out that the 0.7 ODA target will not be achieved during her term (ending in 2013). At least she deserves credit for her honesty…Goals are goals. Po...

Five years after its acceptance by the 2005 World Summit, it is time to consider the contribution that the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has made and could make to the prevention of mass atrocities.

Part of the current Dutch societal dialogue on nanotechnology is the international dimension: implications of nanotechnology for peace, security and the interests of people in developing countries.

Yesterday I proposed that strengthening a human rights approach within the MDGs would go far in overcoming the generally-agreed weaknesses of the MDGs. But how difficult or easy would it be to make that happen?There are many civil society organiza...

Andy Sumner’s article ‘Beyond 2015’ captures well both the strengths and the shortcomings of the current MDG framework. My organization, Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, has participated in several events exploring this topi...

The struggle against child labour is showing results. But the consensus is now being attacked from two sides: abolish all child labour versus there is nothing wrong with child work.