Posts Tagged ‘Menschenrechte’

David Frum anlässlich der Ankündigung, dass der türkische Premierminister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan den Muammar Gaddafi prize for human rights verliehen bekommt:

In the Middle East, the phrase “human rights” seems almost invariably to mean the opposite. The phrase is used to condone dictatorship in Libya, assassination in Lebanon and terrorism in the Palestinian territories. The one country in the region most concerned to uphold and vindicate human rights, Israel, is the country uniquely targeted in the name of human rights.

The human right to health care requires that government be accountable for fulfilling that right. Health care is a public good, not a commodity and a healthy society benefits all of us. The government has a duty to ensure that the right to health care is being met; it does not have an obligation to provide private sector insurers and middlemen with increasing profits, as the current Wall Street driven model dictates. Through public financing and administration of health care we can minimize the profit incentives to deny care and instead guarantee access to quality care for all.

Amnesty International USA Blog: Human Rights Missing from Health Care Debate

Richard Herzinger über das Recht aller Menschen.

Was liegt also für die Linkspartei näher, als sich anlässlich des 60. Jahrestages der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte auf einer Konferenz ihrer Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung dem Thema “Menschenrechte und Sozialismus“ zu widmen.

(Christoph Seils – Alle böse außer Oskar)