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Introduction – from the universal to the personal

Welcome to the Blog: Human Rights Human Wrongs.

For decades I’ve been troubled by the word rights. I resist the claimed entitlement that comes with rights. It’s just too easy to say: with my rights I’m entitled to claim whatever’s yours, to create arguments based on victimhood.

Rights make too many arguments too easy to win because rights are The Silver Bullet – metaphorically and literally. Read More

January 4, 2016
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John Holtom
Human Rights

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Who doesn’t want to change the world? Even in the smallest possible way.

We don’t get much chance. We live such fenced-in lives. Driven to satisfy our immediate needs – earn a living, get our children to school, sort out the washing.

Few of us have the courage of a Dr David Nott. Or a Terry Waite. Or Mandela. Or King.

Few of us choose to travel into the Syrian war zone to help treat those communities who are simply collateral damage in someone else’s territorial fight. read more