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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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391 LOCALLY ORGANIZING IS TO BUILD MORE CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL COMMITMENT TO BUILD A MORE JUST, MORE EQUITABLE AND LESS COMMERCIALIZED SOCIETY ATTUNED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN RIGHTS.

September 8, 2016 admin

1. Growth of a veritable human rights network is needed to succeed in coordinating actions that particularly pursue achieving a greater degree of social cohesion, of solidarity, of expanded contacts…

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390 OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT FOR GLOBAL HEALTH JUSTICE; IT IS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND JUSTICE, AS WELL AS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH WITH JUSTICE. (Lawrence Gostin)

September 8, 2016 admin

1. The reason why global health policy-makers are not implementing the knowledge generated by global health scholars with the right empirical, every-day experience, is not because they use different normative…

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389 IF THE POLITICS ARE NOT FAVORABLE TO SPEAKING TRUTHFULLY ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS THEN CLEARLY WE MUST DEVOTE MORE ENERGY TO CHANGING THE POLITICS. (M. Moses) Part 2 of 2

September 8, 2016 admin

Our time is marked by the predominance of fear over hope 10. A pact between the different constituencies of claim holders must be the result of a political reading that…

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388 IF THE POLITICS ARE NOT FAVORABLE TO SPEAKING TRUTHFULLY ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS THEN CLEARLY WE MUST DEVOTE MORE ENERGY TO CHANGING THE POLITICS. (M. Moses) Part 1 of 2

September 8, 2016 admin

1. These days, international politics is too fragmented to achieve much, especially asso many political leaders are guided by corporate interests. (H-J. Luhmann) As a consequence, nationstates,rich and poor, have…

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387 SCORE: SDGs 1, HUMAN RIGHTS 0? THE SDGs ARE A POLITICALLY NEGOTIATED CONSENSUS THAT HAS NO SIGNIFICANT HUMAN RIGHTS ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM BUILT IN.

September 8, 2016 admin

SDGs: “We must avoid every temptation to fall into a declarationist nominalism which would assuage our consciences.” (Pope Francis) 1. Unfortunately, the Sustainable Development Goal targets shied away from explicitly…

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386 THERE ARE DIFFERENCES IN HUMAN RIGHTS: THROUGH HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION WE KNOW THEM; THROUGH HUMAN RIGHTS LEARNING WE LIVE THEM. (posthumously, Jerome Koenig)

September 8, 2016 admin

Human Rights Learning (HRL) is badly needed for more and more people to start recognizing the roots of their vulnerability and for them to recognize how these are related to…

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385 THE BREAKAWAY WEALTH OF THE 1% IS PROOF THAT WE DO NOT HAVE A CRISIS OF SCARCITY, BUT A DEFICIT OF FAIRNESS AND OF HUMAN RIGHTS. (RonLabonte)

September 8, 2016 admin

The powerful exploit enormous advantages For those in power, the money they amass is never enough; with all the notoriety and success it can buy them, it also becomes the…

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384 WE NEED TO SHARPEN OUR PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY SO AS TO MAKE PUBLIC-PUBLIC HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED PARTNERSHIPS THE NORM. (Geoffrey Cannon)

September 8, 2016 admin

Democracy is in recession (Thomas Friedman) -Our current ‘democracies’ are nothing more than the government of a minority throwing overboard the human rights of a majority. (adapted from Thomas Jefferson)…

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383 THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS’ MOTTO: WHERE THERE’S A WILL, I WANT TO BE IN IT.

September 8, 2016 admin

Tomorrow must be more than just another today 1. In development work, it is actually the result of a willful effort by our leaders–those with the right ideals– to effect…

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382 THE GOOD THING ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS IS THAT THEY ARE HERE TO STAY WHETHER THE SDGs DRAFTERS BELIEVED IN THEM AS PIVOTAL TO THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS OR NOT. (part two of two)

September 8, 2016 admin

Ultimately, successwill depend on how we contribute to foster the achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in a human rights-compliant manner. (H.R. Schillinger) So,in order to add significant leverage…

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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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