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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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415 INEQUALITY HAS BEEN A CHOICE. GLOBALIZATION THRIVES ON EXISTING INEQUALITIES. (Joseph Stiglitz)

July 14, 2017 admin

Human rights: Food for a not-by-chance thought Human Rights Reader 415 -Bernie Sanders put it best: “We not only have massive wealth and income inequality, but a power structure that…

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414 THE GREATEST PUNISHMENT FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT INTERESTED IN POLITICS IS THAT THEY ARE GOVERNED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE. (Arnold Toynbee)

July 14, 2017 admin

Human rights: Food for a punishing thought Human Rights Reader 414 Politics without value-grounded ideas stimulates corruption (Revista Primera Piedra) 1. In its true sense, politics is to be taken…

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413 HEALTH CARE FOR THOSE RENDERED POOR OFTEN ENDS UP BEING POOR HEALTH CARE, SO THAT THE MORE WE TARGET BENEFITS AT THEM ONLY … THE LESS LIKELY WE ARE TO REDUCE POVERTY AND INEQUALITY. (Amrtya Sen)

July 14, 2017 admin

Human rights: Food for a thought to be fought-for Human Rights Reader 413 We can safely say that, in the case of health, inequality is a passive outcome: ‘it happens’;…

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412. YOUNG PEOPLE MUST OCCUPY THEIR RIGHTFUL PLACE IN HUMAN RIGHTS DECISION-MAKING. THEY HAVE TO PROGRESSIVELY TAKE THE HELM OF THE SHIP.

July 14, 2017 admin

Human rights: Food for a youth-reminding thought Human Rights Reader 412 The future will ultimately either go in the direction of the youth’s commitment, or along their indifference about human…

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April 14, 2017 admin

INTRODUCTION Welcome to the website that holds a big chunk of what I have published over the last 35 years. The website is easy to navigate and is self-explanatory. Unfortunately,…

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411 WE ARE NOT MAKING THIS UP: THE VAST MAJORITY OF STATES HAVE ALREADY OBLIGATED THEMSELVES TO RESPECT, PROTECT AND FULFILL ALL HUMAN RIGHTS. (ESCR-Net)

April 6, 2017 admin

The human rights framework, a major instrument for accountability, is under attack 1. The UN is explicitly an intergovernmental body; if UN member states do not like human rights (HR)…

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410 JUST AS CAPITALISM IS GLOBALIZED, WE MUST GLOBALIZE THE STRUGGLE FOR THE RIGHTS OF THOSE RENDERED POOR. (Roshan Bhati)

April 6, 2017 admin

Keep in mind: The power of the people is stronger than the people in power. (Babu Owino) Human rights embody a social learning process originating from social struggles for legal…

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409 THE NEXT FIFTEEN YEARS DEVELOPMENT OUTLOOK: IS THE BALANCE ALREADY IRREVERSIBLY SKEWED IN FAVOR OF PRIVATE INTERESTS AND AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS?

April 6, 2017 admin

-We are, more and more, seeing a process of outsourcing the international development agenda. – The narrative of ‘progress’ is no longer sustainable. (Steven Smith) Innovation is not a prerogative…

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408 IN 1793, THE MILITANT REVOLUTIONARY OLYMPIA DE GOUGES PROPOSED A DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN INCLUDING THEIR CIVIC RIGHTS. THE GUILLOTINE CHOPPED HER HEAD. (Eduardo Galeano)

April 5, 2017 admin

In many parts of the world, cows are given more rights than women. (Huffington Post) We cannot let anybody forget the-female-face-of-poverty 1. Women are subjected to multiple and intersecting discrimination…

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118 Peoples Health Movement 2017

February 28, 2017 admin

Claudio Schuftan, Member of the Steering Council of the People’s Health Movement, Saigon, Vietnam International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Second Edition, 2, 2017, 438–441 . The People’s Health Movement (PHM)…

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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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