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War or Peace: Ethical Human Rights Approach
international |
rights, freedoms and repression |
opinion/analysis
Tuesday September 18, 2012 11:31 by Anthony Ravlich - Human Rights Council (New Zealand) anthony_ravlich at yahoo dot com 10D/15 City Rd., Auckland City, New Zealand. (0064) (09) 940.9658
Replace Neoliberalism
Expresses the opinion that the choice between neoliberalism and an ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization is a choice between war and peace. And also a concern at the effects of neoliberalism on the rebuilding of Christchurch following massive earthquakes. Considers New Zealand should pursue an independent path from the IMF and its neoliberal economic policies.
War or Peace: Ethical Human Rights Approach.
Anthony Ravlich
Human Rights Council (New Zealand)
10D/15 City Rd.,
Auckland City.
Ph: (09) 940.9658
www.hrc2001.org.nz
Opinion
Sent following opinion to New Zealand political party leaders et al:
“The ethical approach to human rights, development, globalization for World Peace (to replace neoliberalism), which has involved nearly 22 years of research, needs to be known to the residents of Christchurch [who suffered a number of devastating earthquakes rsulting in 185 deaths and requiring massive rebuilding].
I have received a somewhat veiled invitation from a major NGO in Christchurch which I hope to 'accept' but my circumstances are such that it may not be for some time. But this is a choice the residents of Christchurch should have now.
Take a step back for a minute: first it was those at the bottom of the social scale 'crushed and isolated', then it was the children (abuse figures described as staggering by country rapporteur), and then the mass purging of the 'tall poppies' (see my articles on anthony ravlich’s blog guerilla media).
And now it seems even Christchurch is to be sacrificed for the neoliberal agenda. But it may not be as easy to hide what happens in Christchurch as was the case with the former groups - earthquakes are high profile.
I posted the following on the social networking sites:
"Undemocratic:top-down neoliberal capture of mainstream media/democratic majority.Unsafe truth in margins.Bottom-up ethical human.rights to inform voter".
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I realize New Zealand elites have very largely lost the capacity to think for themselves but given the ethical human rights approach they do not have to.
The inclusion (in the NZ bill of rights) of such rights as the right to property, non-discrimination with respect to property, social origin, birth (includes descent i.e. family lineage or whakapapa), the individual and collective rights to pursue economic and social development and the right to self-determination would very likely allow us to break free from IMF neoliberal economic policies, which fail to abide by human rights, and pursue an independent path (but includes an ethical globalization) - which many States, concerned for human rights, may seek to emulate.
This might also help encourage the bureaucratic elites who meet at the UN to remove the right to property from the hands of the IMF and World Bank and include it in international human rights law where it is meant to be (see my book, ‘Freedom from our social prisons: the rise of economic, social and cultural rights’, Lexington Books, 2008, chapter 5, pp146-7).
Again take a step back. First my book was recommended on the UN website, then there has been high profile support on the social networking sites, including a number of NZ professionals, recently some top academic support, and then 'We Can', led by activist Rev Mike Coleman, in Christchurch meant I was no longer so isolated in upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Now I have been invited to join a major children's NGO (dominated by academics with much experience) and to attend their AGM as well as the 'veiled' invitation from Christchurch mentioned above.
So the support for the ethical human rights approach is growing and while I believe it will replace neoliberalism I am very concerned at the needless suffering that will be inflicted in the meantime - but then I only have to endure it while it exists you will have to live with it for a lifetime.
The global bureaucratic elites need to recognize their limitations - they cannot stop ideas, they cannot predict earthquakes and they cannot completely destroy the human spirit. And while they would claim not to use direct violence against people their mass neglect of huge numbers means they sow the seeds of war and, in my view, this is the trajectory we are on.
In my opinion, the choice between neoliberalism and the ethical human rights approach offers people a choice between war and peace”.
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