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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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608. HUMAN RIGHTS PROBLEMS ON EARTH TODAY HAVE MORE THAN ONE SOLUTION. HOWEVER, PRIORITIES ARE DETERMINED BY POLITICS. (Suzy Kassem)

January 28, 2022 admin

. –Human rights activism is to be locally and centrally concerned with repairing our deeply unequal global political economy inevitably passing through reforming national and international governance systems. 1.

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607. I PARTICIPATE. YOU PARTICIPATE. HE/SHE PARTICIPATES. WE PARTICIPATE. BUT… THEY DECIDE. (chalkboard in Bolivia)

January 28, 2022 admin

. -When is participation an instrument for manipulation? (Raff Carmen) 1. The world, and society, can indeed be shaped by us. But it is not

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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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605. THE CULTIVATION OF IGNORANCE TO THE ADVANTAGE OF THE ELITES (WHOSE ORDAINED RIGHT IS TO GOVERN WITHOUT POPULAR KNOWLEDGE OR INTERFERENCE) IS A RUNNING THEME THE WORLD OVER. (Walter Lippmann)

January 28, 2022 admin

. -Give a kid a fish and you feed her/him for a day. Teach her/him to use

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604. ECONOMIC THEORIES NEVER HAD ANY PRACTICAL UTILITY (Karl Popper) –LESS SO FOR HUMAN RIGHTS.

January 28, 2022 admin

. -Science requires us to constantly think against and challenge our own brains, i.e., distrust the evidence, not adopting the first

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603. PLEADING FOR THE RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH IS PLEADING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE; BOTH GO HAND IN HAND.

January 28, 2022 admin

. -On October 8, 2021 the U.N. Human Rights Council recognized access to a clean and healthy environment as a fundamental right, formally adding its weight to

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602. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS: GOALS WITHOUT POLICIES ARE OF NO INTEREST TO ME –AND TO HUMAN RIGHTS.

January 28, 2022 admin

. The SDGs were set out as aspirations, not as destinations at the end of well-planned voyages –now tragically set back by

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601. WITH OR WITHOUT THE STATE, THERE IS A HUMAN DEMAND FOR PROTECTION. (Ruti Teitel)

January 28, 2022 admin

. -In an age of anxiety, men seek justice to set things right. This has been a deep urge throughout history making the idea of a

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131. NURSES, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THEIR ROLE AS CLAIM HOLDERS, DUTY BEARERS, AND PROMOTERS OF SOCIAL CHANGE.

October 3, 2021 admin

Claudio Schuftan, MD Creative Nursing Vol 27 #3, August 2021 As Duty Bearers, nurses are prime guardians, not only of the right to life (as stated in Article 3 of…

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130. THE UNRELENTING PROGRESSIVE CORPORATE CAPTURE OF FOOD AND NUTRITION GOVERNANCE SPACES: A REASSESSMENT OF THE CHALLENGES.

October 3, 2021 admin

Radha Holla Claudio Schuftan In the current decade, nutrition faces two renewed challenges: corporate control over food and nutrition, and the absence of a focus on the social determinants of…

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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)

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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)

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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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