39. Visionaries in health and nutrition
February blog Claudio Schuftan Halfdan Mahler, pictured above, is a cherished friend, and a member of the People’s Health Movement.…
160 EXPLORING A CRITICAL, SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO HEALTH RIGHTS. Summary of a paper by Abhay Shukla * (part 4 of 4)
Beyond the conventional human rights approach, towards a radical view of rights The standard conception of human rights relies…
159 EXPLORING A CRITICAL, SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO HEALTH RIGHTS. Summary of a paper by Abhay Shukla * (part 3 of 4)
Health rights of social groups with special health needs Any system of rights is relevant only if it benefits the…
158 EXPLORING A CRITICAL, SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO HEALTH RIGHTS. Summary of a paper by Abhay Shukla * (part 2 of 4)
The issue of prime mover on health rights Health which concerns ‘everybody’, might be in the danger of being…
157 EXPLORING A CRITICAL, SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO HEALTH RIGHTS. Summary of a paper by Abhay Shukla* (part 1 of 4)
Pathologies of power, as well as social class formation are the motor forces behind most human rights violations which are…
156 THE RICH HAVE POWER BECAUSE OF THEIR MONEY, AND THE POOR HAVE POWER BECAUSE OF THEIR NUMBERS AND THEIR POTENTIAL FOR ORGANIZING AROUND HUMAN RIGHTS PRINCIPLES.
As we have said in previous Readers, most democracies are sham democracies, where the exploited are easily fooled, have little…
155 PUBLIC HEALTH BRINGS A COUNTERBALANCE TO THE INDIVIDUAL-CENTERED VIEW OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
In the above case, it has been said that individual human rights (HR) may be in conflict with social benefits.…
154 HUMAN RIGHTS HAVE TO BE TRANSFORMATIVE RATHER THAN JUST SIMPLY EASING HUMAN SUFFERING. (Leslie London)
Underdevelopment, with its flagrant violations of human rights, can and does persist with the full connivance of the exploited and…
153 JONSSON’S CREDO* (part 2 of 2)
[A compilation of bare-bones Human Rights truisms] Human Rights Planning and Programming Although HR are equal and cannot…
152 JONSSON’S CREDO* (part 1 of 2)
[A compilation of bare-bones Human Rights truisms] Some general truisms A human right is both a right to…