This is a great post by Bill Easterly, of White Man’s Burden fame, over at his blog, “Aid Watch”. It deals with the problems faced when attempting to lump poverty and human rights together, as Amnesty International has done in its 2009 report. It slows down the solutions to both.
Chris Blattman also touches on this here.
P.S. I should have a post or two more going up today before I leave for Uganda tomorrow and they become much more sporadic.
I know nothing of Gambia, and it’s very rare that I see anything written about it in international headlines, but after reading this story, I need to read deeper. What’s described in this article are massive human rights violations. President Jammeh is mad, and yet it’s rare to hear anything about he or the country he rules over.
