411 WE ARE NOT MAKING THIS UP: THE VAST MAJORITY OF STATES HAVE ALREADY OBLIGATED THEMSELVES TO RESPECT, PROTECT AND FULFILL ALL HUMAN RIGHTS. (ESCR-Net)
The human rights framework, a major instrument for accountability, is under attack 1. The UN is explicitly an intergovernmental body; if UN member states do not like human rights (HR)…
410 JUST AS CAPITALISM IS GLOBALIZED, WE MUST GLOBALIZE THE STRUGGLE FOR THE RIGHTS OF THOSE RENDERED POOR. (Roshan Bhati)
Keep in mind: The power of the people is stronger than the people in power. (Babu Owino) Human rights embody a social learning process originating from social struggles for legal…
409 THE NEXT FIFTEEN YEARS DEVELOPMENT OUTLOOK: IS THE BALANCE ALREADY IRREVERSIBLY SKEWED IN FAVOR OF PRIVATE INTERESTS AND AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS?
-We are, more and more, seeing a process of outsourcing the international development agenda. – The narrative of ‘progress’ is no longer sustainable. (Steven Smith) Innovation is not a prerogative…
408 IN 1793, THE MILITANT REVOLUTIONARY OLYMPIA DE GOUGES PROPOSED A DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN INCLUDING THEIR CIVIC RIGHTS. THE GUILLOTINE CHOPPED HER HEAD. (Eduardo Galeano)
In many parts of the world, cows are given more rights than women. (Huffington Post) We cannot let anybody forget the-female-face-of-poverty 1. Women are subjected to multiple and intersecting discrimination…
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 Edition, 2, 2017, 438–441 . The People’s Health Movement (PHM)…
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 to change the ethics and praxis of achieving universal health…
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 the perspectives of health and nutrition and, short term, in…
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 giving WHO the chance to implement regulatory and fiscal strategies…