Introduction The background The concept of Human Rights in health and why it is used Experiences from some NGOs already using the Equity/Human Rights approach Practical ways for NGOs to…
· Ministries of health around the world claim they have carried out a health sector reform; they argue that by doing so, they have decentralized and devolved the governance of…
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE SETTING OF GOALS AND TARGETS: HAVE THEY HELPED PROGRESS OR NOT? SCN News, No.22, Gva., July 2001. The big hype The outcome-process riddle Being realistic On…
These have now been put separately in this website. You can click on HR Readers in the home page to access them. Claudio
*: This is partly plagiarized, but I regrettably lost the reference. Although it is nothing terribly new, I think it is still worth bringing to a higher level of consciousness…
Variations on a theme by South African Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer. Inspired, plagiarized and paraphrased from her novel “A Sport of Nature”, Penguin Books, N.Y. 1988. I am not…
World Bank, Aid Effectiveness Research, Development Research Group (released March 27, 2001).* *: The individual country case studies are not reviewed here. Welcome to a post-mortem of and a critical…
The vast majority of humanity just has the right to see, to hear…and to remain silent (Eduardo Galeano) I am a true convert. I do believe the Human Rights approach…
For readers of the WDR that may have been caught off guard, let me start by assuring you that empowering poor people is NOT about “making the state and social…
*: Re: Health a Precious Asset – Accelerating Follow-up to the World Summit for Social Development – Proposals by the World Health Organization, WHO/HSD/HID/00.1, 2000. ( Dr G.H. Brundtland, referring…