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842. PUBLIC HEALTH HAS LOST POLITICAL INFLUENCE, BECAUSE OF A MISMATCH BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE, MORAL AUTHORITY AND THE FORMS OF POWER THAT CURRENTLY SHAPE SOCIETY. (Jonathan Heller) 841. FOR ME, SPIRITUALITY IS CLOSER TO PHILOSOPHY THAN TO RELIGION. THIS, SINCE IT IS A QUESTION OF ETHICS, NOT OF DOGMA. (Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune) 840. THE CASE OF ‘CHOICE-LESS DEMOCRACIES’ (Saeed Husaini) 839. THE CHALLENGE OF THE DAY IS NOT ABOUT GETTING INVOLVED IN MORE MODELS FOR THE WORLD; THE NEED IS FOR A NEW MODEL ALTOGETHER. (Kofi Annan) 838. THE HYPOCRITICAL NATURE OF DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION. (cooperation…?)
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617. PRIVATE SECTOR’S GREAT TAKE OVER: HOW MULTISTAKEHOLDERISM THREATENS HEALTH AND FOOD SYSTEMS AND, THEREFORE, PEOPLE AND STATES.

May 8, 2022 admin

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616. PUBLIC-PUBLIC OR PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS? THAT IS THE QUESTION –A tour de force in 27 paragraphs: what you need to know.

May 8, 2022 admin

. Public-private partnerships contravene the human rights-based understanding of people as claim

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615.IT HAS BEEN SO LONG SINCE LIBERAL DEMOCRACY HAS CEASED TO BE OBJECTIVELY FAIR.

May 8, 2022 admin

. 1. Those of us who give our very best for the

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614. MAKING HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBLE AND AFFORDABLE IS NOT THE SAME AS MAKING IT UNIVERSAL AND FREE. (Luke Savage)

May 8, 2022 admin

. –What the hell is the point of running an

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606. TRUSTING IN GOD, YES; BUT ALSO RISING TO FIGHT EVIL. (cardinal Raúl Silva H. referring to the human rights struggles against the Pinochet dictatorship)

January 28, 2022 admin

. A. Arguments on the trusting side –If God

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613. HUMAN RIGHTS AT THE CROSSROAD: HISTORY IS THE POLITICS OF YESTERDAY AND POLITICS IS THE HISTORY OF TODAY. (Jose Steinsleger)

January 28, 2022 admin

. 1. Much of what has been called

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612. IT MUST BE CLEAR TO US THAT WITHOUT HUMAN RIGHTS LEARNING THERE IS NO ORGANIZATION AND THERE IS NO MOBILIZATION TO STRUGGLE FOR WHAT IS IMPORTANT. (Manuel Ahumada)

January 28, 2022 admin

. The challenge for academia: out-of-date curricula 1. For decades, scientific methods,

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611. DESPITE THEIR BOLD VOICES AND COURAGEOUS EFFORTS, YOUNG ACTIVISTS HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO GET WHAT THEY WANT, NAMELY A FAR-SIGHTED, HISTORICAL DEAL.

January 28, 2022 admin

. –Young activists play the indispensable role of setting the path forward, making

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610. IT IS A FAIRYTALE THAT WORLD GOVERNMENTS WILL FIX OUR CLIMATE CRISIS. IT IS UP TO US. (Bill Mc Kibben)

January 28, 2022 admin

-PLANet B does not exist. (Louis Casado) . Can the mainstream climate movement ready itself

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609. IN THE CASE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IT IS CRUCIAL TO THINK AND NOT ‘LET-ONESELF-BE-THOUGHT’ BY WHAT THE CORRIDORS OF POWER DICTATE. (Gloria Clavero)

January 28, 2022 admin

. –Most societies marginalize their dissident intellectuals when they deviate from those

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842. PUBLIC HEALTH HAS LOST POLITICAL INFLUENCE, BECAUSE OF A MISMATCH BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE, MORAL AUTHORITY AND THE FORMS OF POWER THAT CURRENTLY SHAPE SOCIETY. (Jonathan Heller)

November 7, 2026 admin
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841. FOR ME, SPIRITUALITY IS CLOSER TO PHILOSOPHY THAN TO RELIGION. THIS, SINCE IT IS A QUESTION OF ETHICS, NOT OF DOGMA. (Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune)

November 1, 2026 admin
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840. THE CASE OF ‘CHOICE-LESS DEMOCRACIES’ (Saeed Husaini)

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839. THE CHALLENGE OF THE DAY IS NOT ABOUT GETTING INVOLVED IN MORE MODELS FOR THE WORLD; THE NEED IS FOR A NEW MODEL ALTOGETHER. (Kofi Annan)

October 18, 2026 admin
CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN MD
Saigon, Vietnam
Email: cschuftan@phmovement.org
Claudio Schuftan is a freelance public health consultant in Ho Chi Minh City and an ex-adjunct associate professor in the Department of International Health of the Tulane School of Public Health, USA. He is a Chilean national and got his M.D. degree in his native country.

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