-“Where there is a need, a human right is born”. (graffiti in a wall in Barriloche, Argentina). -Human rights apply to all people in all places at all times, a…
16. As rights activists, we are no longer going to go to beg for changes to be implemented; we are now going to demand them based on existing international law…
The Right to Health: A holistic overview of its components and tasks for the global health movement. 8. The right to health has been defined as the ‘right to the…
1. The progressive weakening of public health systems, the growing privatisation of health care and the erosion of universal access to health care are phenomena seen across the globe. The…
11. Let it be understood here that there is nothing inherently wrong with market-oriented reforms in health, provided: a) They work in the direction of equity, as well as greater…
1. If one is skeptical about whether health sector reforms (HSRs), pretty much applied worldwide, have worked, perhaps the time has come to be bold and to ask some hard…
1. Weak health systems are infringing the human rights (HR) of both patients and health workers. Therefore, and because they are not currently doing so, health systems are to be…
Poverty is a form of exile, of being cut off from the larger society –and this is a human rights issue. 1. Other than the World Bank’s and perhaps the…
1. Although the title of this Reader is more often than not forgotten, it is transparently clear. But after Paris, reforms are just not working; they have failed to tackle…
In terms of social justice, international borders are artificial, the struggles of people everywhere are the same. (S. Ahmed) 1. We have to start this Reader with a caveat: Depth…