As far as I can comprehend, needs and rights go hand in hand.  It is
human rights to be able to fulfill the basic human needs (the
four-component needs theory).

Without that being said and specified, "needs based approach" is
equally arbitrarily determined.  Who decides what needs need to be
fulfilled, and who decides how it should be fulfilled?  The "small
number" of politicians?

>>> John Courtneidge <[log in to unmask]> 03/22/07 9:36 AM
>>>
Dear friends

(Thanx Ivy!)

It's worth noting that rights are arbitrarily determined, while a
determination (and consequential) politics of needs is evidence-based:

As such, a needs-based politics is becoming an active political
concept
(well, by a small number of us!).

I have shared the 'Four Component Needs' essay before (the essence is
below along with a subsequent post-script) - see in the papers section
at www.interestfreemoney.org - original essay without the postscript:

----------------------------------------------------

*Original essay, October 1995:*

"Four-Component Needs Theory":

o Food, air and water,
o Warm clothing and shelter,
o Human contact (companionship, conversation, intimacy) and,
o An activity (paid work, education, child raising, home making, etc)

------------------------------------------------------

*Postscript, February 1999*
In brief: our actions are determined by the struggle between our
selfish
need-sets and our social need-sets. When we focus on our self-survival
needs, we automatically lose out on fulfilling our social needs and
thus
create all the ills of dysfunctional people, families, societies and
world.

-----------------------------------------------------

BTWs:

1) I can well imagine a Wiki that allows the sub-lists (in the above)
to
be further enumerated - I hadn't, back in 1995, included 'worship' in
the activity list, nor 'joy' likewise.

2) For those liking an even shorter needs theory:

Our ordinate need is to live in a state of fairness* - ie one where
all
incomes are equal - particularly our cash incomes - as list members
have
been well taught by our epidemiologist friends. (And they by the
wider,
deeper, it! )

Love 2(u) all

john

* Hence The Fair World Project

- where human fairness will necessarily cause eco-fairness - ie
sustainability - to emerge.

****************

Ivy Shiue wrote:

> Guys,
> Here’s a new UNFPA publication on human rights-based approach.
> http://www.unfpa. org/upload/ lib_pub_file/ 680_filename_
hr_book.pdf
> <http://www.unfpa.org/upload/lib_pub_file/680_filename_hr_book.pdf>
> This handbook can help you turn the concept of a 'human rights-based
> approach' into reality on the ground. It breaks down human
> rights-based approach into its various components, and provides a
> checklist for development practitioners to use in implementing and
> evaluating their programmes.
>
>
> Ivy Shiue, MSc student
> Institute of Public Health
> National Yang-Ming University
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