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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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583. RONALD REAGAN’S MANTRA THAT THE POOR BRING POVERTY AND THE RICH BRING WEALTH, SO THE RICH SHOULD BE LEFT TO CREATE WEALTH IS A CLASSICAL DECEIVING QUOTE OF NEOLIBERALS.

October 3, 2021 admin

. -If I were a rich man… (Fiddlers on the Roof) Economics has come to be thought-of as a discipline

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582. LET US BE REALISTS: THE POLITICAL CHALLENGE THAT POPULIST AUTHORITARIANISM PRESENTS TO DEMOCRACY AND TO HUMAN RIGHTS IS HERE TO STAY.

October 3, 2021 admin

. Human rights in the era of Surveillance Capitalism 1. Technologies (and the institutions that push the same) are part of

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581. PRIMITIVE MAN HAD TO PROTECT HIMSELF FROM THE THREATS OF NATURE. NOW, NATURE HAS TO BE SAVED FROM THE THREATS OF MAN. (Albino Gomez)

October 3, 2021 admin

. 1.The ‘curse of natural resources’ tells us of the negative relationship between natural resources and their predominance in the export model

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580. HAS THE ‘SOVEREIGN COVID VIRUS’ BROUGHT THE CURRENT PARADIGM TO ITS KNEES? EVEN THE SMALLEST OF CREATURES CAN DETHRONE IT. (Donatella Di Cesare)

October 3, 2021 admin

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579. HEALTH FOR ALL AND THE RIGHT TO HEALTH HAVE BEEN ASPHYXIATED SINCE THE 1980s. (Alison Katz)

October 3, 2021 admin

. 1. Forty+ years on from Alma Ata, all kinds of ‘revivals’ of PHC have been attempted. None have been genuine revivals, because among

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578. WHO WON? DEMOCRACY AT THE EXPENSE OF CAPITALISM? OR CAPITALISM AT THE EXPENSE OF DEMOCRACY?: quo-vadis human rights? (Juan Pablo Cardenas)

October 3, 2021 admin

. 1. Capitalism ongoingly ‘creates poverty’ so that, then, due to their powerlessness*, ‘the poor’ keep

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577. FOR MANY YEARS, AND TILL TODAY, MANY A COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IS ‘EN VIAS DE SUBDESARROLLO’. (Albino Gomez)

October 3, 2021 admin

-Piu le cose cambiano, piu sono le stesse cose. (G. Lampedusa) . Global governance of the development conundrum cannot remain a club for the

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576. POWER THRIVES ON INFLUENCING US. OH!, BUT IT DOES NOT LIKE TO BE WATCHED-OVER AND SCRUTINIZED. (Gabriel Fernandez)

October 3, 2021 admin

. -We often look at ethics like a list of things we ought not do. But, actually, ethics is

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575. THE MYTHS ABOUT WHAT THE PROMISED FREE-MARKETS-UNIVERSAL-CIVILIZATION WILL BRING ARE A HUMAN RIGHTS BOONDOGGLE. (Nicoletta Dentico)

October 3, 2021 admin

. -For more than three decades, or at least since the end of the Cold War, the grand

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574. CUSTOMARY, TRADITIONAL AND RELIGIOUS PRACTICES DISCRIMINATE AGAINST WOMEN and undermine the full implementation of international and national legal human rights codes. (SIGI)

October 3, 2021 admin

. We need to see feminism, not only as addressing issues of gender, but rather as a methodological approach of understanding (and acting upon) the diverse ongoing

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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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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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