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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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555. DO NOT SWEEP THIS UNDER THE CARPET: HEALTH ENTITLEMENTS ARE CLAIMABLE HUMAN RIGHTS.

November 30, 2020 admin

-From anti-retrovirals to vaccines, to emergency obstetric care, to family planning, to access to abortion…: all are inalienable human rights (HR).

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554. WORK IN HUMAN RIGHTS: AS THE LATE US REPRESENTATIVE JOHN LEWIS USED TO SAY: “MAKE GOOD TROUBLE”!

November 30, 2020 admin

. -Activists must transform every ‘it was’ into an ‘I willed it thus’!

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553. THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN RIGHTS CAN INDEED BE MADE THE BASIS FOR COMMONSENSE SOLUTIONS TO HUMANITY’S PROBLEMS. (Branko Marcetic)

November 30, 2020 admin

. -Human rights principles (participation, accountability, non-discrimination, transparency, human dignity, empowerment and

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552. IF YOU ARE NEUTRAL IN TIMES OF INJUSTICE, YOU HAVE CHOSEN THE SIDE OF THE OPPRESSOR. (Desmond Tutu)

November 30, 2020 admin

. -The State is not a class-neutral body that serves

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551. WE LIVE IN A SECULAR SOCIETY THAT COVETS AND STRIVES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: IS SECULARISM CONSIDERED A PROGRESS?

November 30, 2020 admin
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550. YES, I WRITE THE READERS WITH A LOT OF ANGER (CREATIVE ANGER) AND I DO NOT HIDE IT. I SAY THIS NOT WITH RESENTMENT, BUT WITH DETERMINATION.

November 30, 2020 admin
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549. FEWER THAN 10% OF THE WORLD’S POPULATION PARTICIPATES FULLY IN POLITICAL LIFE; LESS STILL ON HUMAN RIGHTS. DO YOU GET INVOLVED IN LONG STRUGGLES?

November 30, 2020 admin

. -The

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548. THE BASIC CONFLICT OF OUR TIMES IS TO DECIDE WHEN TO CLING TO THE PRESCRIPTIONS OF A FAILING PARADIGM AND WHEN TO SEE THROUGH IT AND LET IT GO. (P. Brook)

November 30, 2020 admin

. Technology only

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547. AS POLITICAL ACTIVISTS, WE ACT IN THE SHADOWS –AND IN DARKNESS, THERE IS LITTLE ROOM TO MANEUVER POLITICALLY. (Boaventura de Sousa Santos)

November 30, 2020 admin

. -I know your enemy very well

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546. DEVELOPMENT OUGHT TO ACTUALLY BE A PROCESS OF SUBVERSION OF OLD WAYS SO THAT NEW WAYS CAN REPLACE THEM. (G. Axinu)

November 30, 2020 admin

. -Development must actually ask what we do want to have today and in the future. So, for development to

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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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