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836. POVERTY DEPRIVES BILLIONS OF THEIR RIGHT TO LIFE. 835. YOU CANNOT PROTECT NATURE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THE ECONOMY THAT DESTROYS IT. (Alessandra Prampolini) 834. SOWING FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IS WHAT WILL ENSURE FOOD SECURITY. PERIOD. 833. FORMAL EQUALITY EXISTS ON PAPER; INEQUALITY EXISTS IN PEOPLE’S LIVES. (Esteban Gonzalez P.) 832. WE SPEND MORE TIME TRYING TO KEEP TRACK OF INFORMATION THAN USING IT. (Stephen Bezruchka)
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470. IN HUMAN RIGHTS WORK, WE HAVE TO MAINTAIN CLARITY ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN IDEALISM AND ACTIVISM.

February 17, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for a morally courageous thought Human Rights Reader 470 Moral courage is the companion of great leadership Must being a committed human rights (HR) activist these days…

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469. FURTHER DEMOCRATIZATION OF HEALTH CARE MUST BECOME AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL AGENDA: A COUPLE OF HOW TOs.

February 17, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for a how-to thought Human Rights Reader 469 1. The majority of the population supporting a change towards single-payer (tax financed) reform in health, cannot by itself…

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468. BOTH CAPACITY BUILDING AND CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT REFER TO LOCKING-IN THE ABILITY TO PERFORM MORE EFFECTIVELY: THE ROLE OF HUMAN RIGHTS LEARNING.

February 17, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for a non-conformist thought Human Rights Reader 468 From the time we are born, they train us to see no more that tidbits of reality. A culture…

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467. THE RIGHT TO HEALTH HAS SIMPLY NOT YET BEEN GRANTED WHAT IS INHERENT TO IT. (Part two of two)

February 17, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for a solidary thought (2) Human Rights Reader 467 Recapping As of now, many RTH activists place too high expectations on the work of the judiciary to…

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466. THE RIGHT TO HEALTH HAS SIMPLY NOT YET BEEN GRANTED WHAT IS INHERENT TO IT. (Part one of two)

February 17, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for a solidary thought Human Rights Reader 466 What is missing that is inherent to it? 1. What is missing is effectively linking the many (so far)…

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465. THE ATTACKS ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT ARE NOW COMING FROM ‘DEMOCRATICALLY’ ELECTED GOVERNMENTS, AS OPPOSED TO THE DICTATORSHIPS OF THE PAST.

February 17, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for a socially pathological thought Human Rights Reader 465 1. Mental health constructs under capitalism entail accepting a ‘pathological normalcy’, i.e., social pathologies that have become to…

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464. USING HUMAN RIGHTS ONLY RHETORICALLY MERELY PROVIDES A PATINA OF LEGITIMACY TO WHAT IS A VACUOUS UNDERSTANDING OF DEVELOPMENT. (Alicia Yamin)

February 17, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for the wrong use of a thought Human Rights Reader 464 -He who controls the definition controls the policy. 1. The current main beneficiaries of development are…

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463. THE GREAT PANDEMICS ARE NO LONGER TRANSMITTED BY MOSQUITOES, VIRUSES OR BACTERIA; THEY ARE CURRENTLY TRANSMITTED BY BIG TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS.* (Alejandro Calvillo, El Poder del Consumidor, Mexico)

February 17, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for a pandemic thought Human Rights Reader 463 *: Also rightly called ‘corporate vectors of disease’ (Lucy Gilmore) or ‘harm industries’. (M. Welker) These industries talk about…

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462. THE HUMAN RIGHTS STRUGGLE IS NOT A DAVID-AGAINST-GOLIATH-STRUGGLE; IT IS A HUNDREDS-OF-THOUSANDS-OF-DAVIDS-AGAINST-GOLIATH-STRUGGLE. (Joanna Siddhou) (part 2 of 2)

February 17, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for a David against Goliath thought (2) Human Rights Reader 462 It is politically delicate to interfere in the very limited (shrinking?) national space for effective human…

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461. THE HUMAN RIGHTS STRUGGLE IS NOT A DAVID-AGAINST-GOLIATH-STRUGGLE; IT IS A HUNDREDS-OF-THOUSANDS-OF-DAVIDS-AGAINST-GOLIATH-STRUGGLE. (Joanna Siddhou) (part 1 of 2)

February 17, 2019 admin

Human rights: Food for a David against Goliath thought Human Rights Reader 461 The problem is that, in the struggle, ‘having an interest in human rights’ is not enough to…

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CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN MD
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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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