127. IS INEQUALITY A CLEAR INFRINGEMENT OF THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH?
Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan@phmovement.org Abstract Inequality in health is a morally significant fact in itself. Yet the…
126. APPLYING THE HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK IS NOT “A” DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVE; IT IS “THE” ROAD TO AN ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS (People’s Health Movement Latin America)
Claudio Schuftan, People’s Health Movement, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Abstract Historically, political elites adopted the idea of human rights…
125. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITIONISTS REALLY CARED MORE ABOUT HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION FROM A RIGHT TO NUTRITION PERSPECTIVE?
Claudio Schuftan The current malnutrition problem around the world is not its double burden, but it is multiple burdens. Thus…
459. DEALING WITH THE ISSUE OF THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH.
-So many people have no other teacher than the street and no other doctor than death. (Eduardo Galeano, Apuntes para…
458. GLOBALIZATION PUTS THE FREEDOM OF PRIVATE BUSINESS ABOVE THE FREEDOM OF PEOPLE AND THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS. HUMAN BEINGS BECOME HUMAN RESOURCES.
Globalization is obviously rewarding already acquired capital, not human beings 1. Those left out from the benefits of globalization look…
457. THE DANGER OF ABUSING HISTORY IS THAT IT FLATTENS OUT THE COMPLEXITY OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF THE HAVE-NOTS AND LEAVES NO ROOM FOR DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS OF THE PAST. (M. MacMillan)
Let me start with a disclaimer -Have we been bewitched by history? -Why has history, that was a goddess for…
456. WHAT WE ARE NOT DOING THROUGH THE SDGs IS MEASURING THE DISPARITY REDUCTION RATIO* FROM HERE TO 2030.
*: i.e., the annual rate at which each country is closing the gap between its current economic disparity score and…
455. TRUE DEMOCRACY IS ACTUALLY ‘THE’ DELIVERY SYSTEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS. (Shula Koenig)
-Democracy was born at the local level, and that is where we can win it back. (Barcelone en Comú) Human…
454. THE CHALLENGE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS UNFORTUNATELY OFTEN IS THAT THEY HAVE TO DRIVE THE TRAIN AT THE SAME TIME THAT THEY ARE LAYING THE TRACKS.
-Activists’ work is about recruiting the heart and training the brain. (Hesperian Foundation) 1. For a good human rights activist,…
453. VIVA LA COMUNICACIÓN! ABAJO LA TELE-COMUNICACIÓN! THERE ARE NO LONGER VISIONS, THERE ARE TELE-VISIONS; WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE HUMAN RELATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS?
-Television is chewing gum for the eyes. (Frank Lloyd Wright) Do not be fooled: The media are ‘ideology formers’. We…