Human Rights and Wrongs
On My Soap Box Human Rights and Wrongs We hear much at present about Human Rights. And I have consciously given the H and the R a capital letter. In Namibia and South Africa (and I’m sure many other countries, but these are the ones I can cite knowledgeably), activists, and in most cases indeed the Government, have done much to ensure equal rights are available to all. Take the country’s Affirmative Action Policy. In layman terms, if two people are considered for the same job, and have the same skills and experience, a woman must be paid that same as a man, a Caucasian paid the same as an African or black person and it is “policy” that the advantage goes to the previously disadvantaged candidate. I will not go into the positives or negatives of the above policy, but all in all the intention behind the affirmative action policy is laudable, even if the actual implementation can be seriously criticised. Activists have also ensured that HIV status is a p...