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Feeling human rights: a holistic-feminist perspective. (Human rights: unfinished business).
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- Women's Health Collection
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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We have inherited a new millennium full of serious dilemmas and profound contradictions. While some would say that human civilization is moving forward thanks to technological and scientific progress and a revolutionary movement that has made half of humanity visible, at the same time social and economic inequalities, political and religious chaos, violence inside and outside the home, ecological disasters and the militarization of the planet and space reveals a schizophrenia unparalleled in human history.
We perceive this global sickness through a filter of logic that is so dichotomously fragmented, hierarchical, reductionist and mechanical that it is impossible ...