No party has a monopoly over what is right.
It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.
Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rdworld black, lesbian, feminist, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.
If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?
Human rights takes history out of justice.
The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels.
How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
Pudding is not a human right.
