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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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485. MAKE NO MISTAKE: THE BATTLE LINE IS SPOT-ON BETWEEN GLOBALIZATION, LIBERALIZATION AND PRIVATIZATION AND LIBERTY, EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS.

August 7, 2019 admin

Food for a household thought ‘globalization and human rights’ Human Rights Reader 485 The founders of modern economics chose the firm, not the household, as the basic unit of economic…

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484. IF WE ARE GOING TO DISCUSS POVERTY, WE WILL ABSOLUTELY ALSO HAVE TO DISCUSS WEALTH INEQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS.

August 7, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for a little discussed thought ‘Wealth inequality and HR’ Human Rights Reader 484 -In the current process of globalization, the fight against poverty is a futile exercise…

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483. AS A HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST, IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A STRATEGY, YOU ARE PART OF SOMEBODY ELSE’S STRATEGY. (Mauricio Torres)

August 7, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for an indispensable thought ‘HR activists need a strategy’ Human Rights Reader 483 -Human rights activists that carry out ‘contagious activism’ with a clear strategic vision and…

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482. HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UNDER AUTOCRATIC THREAT. (The Lancet)

August 7, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for a hopefully massive thought ‘HR under autocratic threat’ Human Rights Reader 482 1. Human rights violations propagated by autocratic leaders throughout 2018 and 2019 continue to…

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481. AMIDST RAISING HEAT WAVES, WE NEED TO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT COOLING THE PLANET CAN BE CONSIDERED A HUMAN RIGHT, NOT A LUXURY. (Thalif Deen)

August 7, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for mother nature’s thought ‘Is cooling the planet the right of humans?’ Human Rights Reader 481 -For sure, without man, the planet would become ideal for nature…

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480. THE MORE RELEVANT SCIENCE OF NUTRITION IS ACTUALLY THE SCIENCE OF THE NUTRITION PROBLEMS IN SOCIETY. (Urban Jonsson)

August 7, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for a nutritional thought ‘A context is the consequence of political decisions! Human Rights Reader 480 -Undernutrition is the biological translation of a socioeconomic disease with serious…

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479. DATA, INFORMATION AND THE SOURCES THEY COME FROM ARE BECOMING THE DOMINANT ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE OF WEALTH CREATION.

August 7, 2019 admin

Human Rights: Food for a mind-molding thought ‘Information sources and human rights’ Human Rights Reader 479 1. Data and information are not the ‘new oil’, but a form of capital…

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478. AUTOCRATIC POLITICIANS (MEN OF IMPECCABLE ILLEGITIMACY?) HAVE ALWAYS EXISTED …AND HUMAN RIGHTS HAVE FALLEN THROUGH THE CRACKS.

August 7, 2019 admin

Human Rights: Food for a denunciatory thought ‘Autocratic politicians and HR’ Human Rights Reader 478 -Their governments keep laws on their books that they have no intention of obeying and…

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477. THE PRICE WE HAVE PAID FOR NEOLIBERALISM HAS BEEN A LOSS OF HUMANITY AND OF HUMAN RIGHTS. (Donald de Raadt)

August 7, 2019 admin

Human Rights: Food for a high priced thought ‘Neoliberalism, a loss for HR’ Human Rights Reader 477 Capitalism anesthetizes its own acolytes (Joseph Schumpeter) 1. ‘Consumerist capitalism’ has progressively been…

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476. UNTIL WHEN WILL WE CONTINUE BELIEVING THE FAIRY TALE THAT POVERTY IS THE DESERVED PUNISHMENT THAT THE LAWS OF THE MARKET BESTOW ON INEFFICIENCY? (Eduardo Galeano, Apuntes para Fin de Siglo)

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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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