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Sana'a: The world will never have "genuine" political democracy and human rights without social justice and economic partnership, said a sociologist.
"No genuine political democracy and human rights exist without social justice, an equivalent economic partnership in science, work, distribution, consumption and accumulation," said Sana'a University sociology professor, Hamoud Saleh Al Awdi.
"This world is made by all, so it should be democratically administered by all, and its wealth should be fairly distributed," Al Awdi said in a symposium held on Tuesday by the Yemeni Centre for Historical Studies and Future Strategies.
He said no secure future could be predicted while 20 per cent of the world's population controls 80 per cent of the world's resources.
"How can we predict a secure future while 20 per cent are controlling 80 per cent of the world, this is not democracy," the sociologist said.
Those who promote democracy, freedom and human rights day and night, he added are controlling 85 per cent of the world's capital and trade. About four-fifths of the world's population is deprived of its wealth, he said.
The professor said that Westerns had their own interests in democracy, and that their interests were at the expense of others.
"We should not exercise our attitudes with prejudice; we should have our own opinions which may be right or wrong," he said.
To have genuine democracy and human rights, the world must stop making weapons of mass destruction, he said.
"Not only to avoiding the dangers of the stored weapons which can destroy the globe 14 times over but also because some 50 per cent of scientific resources and energy of human minds is used to make and develop more of these weapons of destruction."
The professor put another condition forwards for genuine democracy, which is to let science rule ideologies not the other way round.
Liberating the facts of science and technology from the chains of monopoly and possession, and also equal rights, joint responsibilities, good governance, and fair distribution of wealth, were also put forward by the sociologist as further conditions for what he called genuine democracy and human rights.
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