1. Donor countries (the US in particular) continue to push WHO towards working with industry through ‘multi‐stakeholder partnerships’, rather than giving WHO the chance to implement regulatory and fiscal strategies…
Already the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 interpreted the issue as implying that no State, group or person has the right to engage in any activity aimed at…
Innovation is not a prerogative of the private sector. 1. More and more, we are seeing a process of outsourcing the international development agenda. The current trade and investment regimes…
-Inequality in health is a morally significant fact in itself. -A purely biomedical understanding of diminished health and preventable mortality misses key dimensions of social and economic issues. 1. The…
We are witnessing the return of a neo-feudal system based on the governance of the powerful with (questionable) ethical values (Sofia Monsalve) The great powers have not hidden their agenda…
-Mind that the SDGs are indeed permissive of neoliberalism. (G. McNaughton) -However attractive the ideas of neoliberalism are at first sight, they hide a dangerous liberal logic that threatens human…
#: I apologize for this gender insensitive quote that became the title. . -For over ten years, I have been painstakingly focusing on the brutal human-rights violations and exploring
In many countries, democracy and capitalism may actually be oxymorons (contradictory expressions) –and never forget, low intensity democracy leads to populism. (Albino Gomez) Be the change you want to promote…
At the moment, consensus is lacking on how the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can succeed in environments of disparate governance, especially given the history of failure of…
-I do not have enough energy to surrender. (Luis Manzano, peasant activist in Chile) -Critics who use their words to hide their cowardice of being in the front and making…