Through our scientific and technological genius, we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment, we must make of it a brotherhood.
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.