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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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129. SPONTANEOUS SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ARE INCREASINGLY AND FREELY MOVING IN THE DIRECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.

October 3, 2021 admin

Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City schuftan@gmail.com -The role of human rights activists today is to accelerate this rapidly spreading trend. -True, we have a wide diversity of local human…

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128. ACTIONS AND ACTIVISM IN FOSTERING GENUINE GRASSROOTS PARTICIPATION IN HEALTH AND NUTRITION.

October 3, 2021 admin

Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City schuftan@gmail.com Effective action requires not just a feeling or enthusiasm, but calls for a close rapport with the disgruntled so as to get them…

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

October 3, 2021 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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600. WHAT DO I WANT MY LIFE TO BE APPRECIATED FOR? HOW ABOUT MOVING THINGS CLOSER TO THE FULFILLMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS?

October 3, 2021 admin

. -The title of an article where a question mark follows a provocative statement could easily sound as a

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599. IN HUMAN RIGHTS, WE CANNOT EXPECT ANYTHING FROM CAPITALISM –AND FROM SOCIALISM? LET US HOPE… (Marcelo Colussi)

October 3, 2021 admin

. 1. ‘The dominant ideology is always the ideology of the dominant class’ –already a century-and-a-half ago did Marx and Engels warn us. The concept is still

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598. RESCUING TRUE FACTS IS HOW WE SUBSTANTIALLY MODIFY HOW THE ‘OFFICIAL HISTORY’ HAS BEEN RECORDED. (Tucydides, c. 460 – c. 400 BC)

October 3, 2021 admin

. -We do know that conventional history glorifies and tries to reinvent the past as it tries to convert old defeats into purported

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597. AS FOR THE FUTURE, YOUR TASK IS NOT TO FORESEE IT, BUT TO ENABLE IT. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

October 3, 2021 admin

. The current development paradigm is not an enabler of human rights. First things first: 1. A paradigm is the model with which we look at

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596. KEY NORMATIVE PRINCIPLES OF THE DECLARATION ON THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT. (UN Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development)

October 3, 2021 admin

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595. THE MESSAGE CAME BACK: “ERROR 440: DEMOCRACY NOT FOUND”. (Grafitti in an unknown city)

October 3, 2021 admin

. The great neoliberal consensus of the 1990s is now broken 1. We are in a breaking point of history, because

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594. THE SCIENCE OF NUTRITION REALLY IS THE SCIENCE-OF-NUTRITION-PROBLEMS-IN-SOCIETY#: Reflections before the UN Food Systems Summit.

October 3, 2021 admin

#: Urban Jonsson . -Somehow, there is a widespread belief that nutrition as a

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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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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)

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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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