Tag: Human Rights
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Only 28 percent of global companies have labor and human rights policies
INSIGHTS in Ethics and Leadership Only 28 percent of global companies – and less than half of those with market capitalizations of more than $10 billion – have labor and human rights policies covering their global supply chains, according to an analysis of 2,500 companies by Harvard Law School's Pensions Project and ASSET4. “Benchmarking Corporate…
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Human rights are the wrong basis for healthcare
Financial Times: Human rights are the wrong basis for healthcare William Easterly The agonising US healthcare debate has taken on a new moral tone. President Barack Obama recently held a conference call with religious leaders in which he called healthcare “a core ethical and moral obligation”. Even Sarah Palin felt obliged to concede: “Each of…
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Poverty is not a human rights violation
Aid Watch: Poverty is not a human rights violation The title of this blog will make many think I am callous, and yet I definitely agree that poverty is an EXTREMELY BAD THING. Perhaps some use the words “human rights violation” to be equivalent to “extremely bad thing,” but why? There are many different “extremely…
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Toward an Evangelical Public Policy: Chapter 15
Toward an Evangelical Public Policy Part III – Central Themes for an Evangelical Framework Chapter 15 – Human Rights. By Paul Marshall, senior fellow at the Center for Religious Freedom, Freedom House, Washington, DC. Marshall observes that human rights have become a central topic in evangelical public policy questions in recent years. However, nailing down…
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Toward an Evangelcial Public Policy: Chapter 8
Toward an Evangelical Public Policy Part II – Toward an Evangelical Methodology Chapter 8 – Justice, Human Rights, and Government: Toward an Evangelical Perspective. By Ronald J. Sider, professor of theology, holistic ministry, and public policy at Palmer Theological Seminary; director of the Sider Center on Ministry and Public Policy; and president of Evangelicals for…