The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been in the minority… It will take such a small committed minority to work unrelentingly to win the uncommitted majority. Such a group may transform America’s greatest dilemma into her most glorious opportunity.
Background
Miloon Kothari is a public scholar and activist from India and an outspoken critic of the countries and institutions that see the neo-liberal and military/security policies as a means to achieving democracy and human rights.
Interests
Kothari’s work covers the areas of housing, land rights, homelessness; evictions and displacement; the right to the city; the human rights dimensions of poverty, segregation and ghettoization; economic globalisation and its impact on human rights. An architect by training, he was the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing with the UN Human Rights Council; founder and former executive director of the Housing and Land Rights Network, India, and co-founder and former convenor of the Working Group on Human Rights in India and the UN.