118 Peoples Health Movement 2017
Claudio Schuftan, Member of the Steering Council of the People’s Health Movement, Saigon, Vietnam International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Second…
117 Las ambigüedades en torno a la Cobertura Universal de Salud (CUS): ¿Reforma progresiva o complot neoliberal?
EDITORIAL Social Medicine/Medicina Social, Vol.10, No.2, August 2016, pp.36-40. Also available in English as “How is the human rights-based approach…
43. AFTER ONE REPEATEDLY HITS ONE’S HEAD AGAINST THE WALL OF HARD REALITIES, IT BEHOOVES ANYBODY HONEST WITH HIM/HERSELF TO CHANGE HIS/HER VIEWS.
1. For the last 25 years, I have been in the global health in development business; mostly addressing it from…
407 INEQUALITY IS NOT JUST AN ECONOMIC ISSUE, BUT A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE. EXTREME INEQUALITY IS THE ANTITHESIS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. (Philip Alston)
[Taken from ‘From Disparity to Dignity: Tackling Economic Inequality Through the SDGs’, Human Rights Policy Brief, CESR, November 2016. I…
406 SUBSTANTIVE WORK OF WHO, PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO HEALTH SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT, SHOULD COUNTER THE PRIVATIZATION AGENDA, BUT DOES IT?
1. Donor countries (the US in particular) continue to push WHO towards working with industry through ‘multi‐stakeholder partnerships’, rather than…
405 FOR TOO LONG IT WAS CONSIDERED THAT TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS COULD NOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. THIS HAS NOW CHANGED.
Already the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 interpreted the issue as implying that no State, group or person…
404 BUSINESSES DO NOT PLAY A ‘CRITICAL ROLE’, AND CALLING ON THEM TO ENGAGE AS EQUAL PARTNERS IN A HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, IS NOT CALLED FOR.
Innovation is not a prerogative of the private sector. 1. More and more, we are seeing a process of outsourcing…
403 THE MOST COMMON DESCRIPTION OF HEALTH INEQUALITY TRENDS AMONG AND WITHIN COUNTRIES IS THAT HEALTH INEQUALITIES ARE INCREASING: A CLEAR INFRINGEMENT OF THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH.
[Mostly abstracted from chapter 18 of the International Panel on Social Progress, 2016] -Inequality in health is a morally significant…
402 THERE IS AN OPPOSING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NEOLIBERALISM (AND AUTHORITARIANISM) AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK. (Gillian McNaughton) Part 2 of 2
We are witnessing the return of a neo-feudal system based on the governance of the powerful with (questionable) ethical values…
401 THERE IS AN OPPOSING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NEOLIBERALISM (AND AUTHORITARIANISM) AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK. (Gillian McNaughton) Part 1 of 2
-Mind that the SDGs are indeed permissive of neoliberalism. (G. McNaughton) -However attractive the ideas of neoliberalism are at first…