EDITORIAL Social Medicine/Medicina Social, Vol.10, No.2, August 2016, pp.36-40. Also available in English as “How is the human rights-based approach to change the ethics and praxis of achieving universal health…
1. For the last 25 years, I have been in the global health in development business; mostly addressing it from the perspectives of health and nutrition and, short term, in…
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