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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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331 GENDER INEQUALITY IS THE MOTHER OF ALL INEQUALITIES AND OF THE VIOLATION OF ALL WOMEN’S RIGHTS. (L. Puri)

September 8, 2016 admin

-In our land of Oz, hypocrisy is without shame. Patriarchy rules. (JeromeKoenig) -Women are not ‘men of the feminine sex’. (Jose Faustino Sarmiento) -Gender relations are a form of organizing…

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330 WHEN IT COMES TO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES, IS IT ONLY THAT WE HAVE TO SENSITIZE A BUNCH OF ‘THEM OUT THERE’….OR DO WE ALSO NEED TO, AS MUCH, SENSITIZE MANY OF ‘OURSELVES’ AMONG US?

September 8, 2016 admin

The others “R” us. Never forget we “R” them. Human Rights “R” ours.(JeromeKoenig) Actually, there is still much to do about nailing certain old and already stale myths in the…

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329a HISTORY TOLD IN A WAY THAT NO RATIONAL PERSON SHOULD SWALLOW?

September 8, 2016 admin

I am afraid history has too often been widely used as a political instrument 1. Ultimately, I see # historians defeated and denigrated to the condition of pariahs left with…

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329 WITHOUT INDIGNATION, NOTHING BIG AND SIGNIFICANT HAPPENS IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY …HUMAN RIGHTS INCLUDED.

September 8, 2016 admin

-History too often dictates that atrocities are acceptable; this is a deadly premise. (Jerome Koenig) -L’histoire est un voyage et pas une destination! -For Marx, history repeats itself first as…

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328 THE WORSE OUTCOME OF ALL THE AGGRESSIONS TO THE HUMAN CONDITION THAT HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BRING ABOUT IS HUMILIATION.

September 8, 2016 admin

1. Aggressions directed towards the human rights (HR) of marginalized individuals or groupsutterly disarm them; they devastate the most essential tenets of their dignity.* To effectively counter these aggressions, we…

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327 THE ABC TRILOGY: AT ALL TIMES, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS MUST BE ANGRY, BRAVE AND CREATIVE.

September 8, 2016 admin

Activists beware: Constraints surround us; while this may sound alarming, they need not impede. So, remember: Fatigue is not uncommonwith self-sacrifice; it can be debilitating. (Jerome Koenig) . Aphorisms by…

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326 HUMAN RIGHTS ARE BOTH PART-OF AND INSTRUMENTAL-TO THE OVERALL PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT. THE REALIZATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IS AN END-GOAL OF DEVELOPMENT ITSELF.

September 8, 2016 admin

-Development solutions of yesterday have literally become our problems of today. (S. Adjei) -It is often wrongly assumed that improvements in societies’ conditions require constant velocity in straight lines forward,…

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325 HUMAN RIGHTS READERS: I WRITE TO ENCOURAGE, TO PERSUADE, TO STIR AND TO AROUSE YOU.

September 8, 2016 admin

First, the confession There is this passion that drives the demolishing craft of the essay writer. (Leonardo Padura) 1. I am a hunter-gatherer-composer writer. Human Rights Readers (HRRs) thus relay…

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324 THE GEOGRAPHY OF POWER IS CHANGING IN THE WORLD. IN HUMAN RIGHTS TERMS, OUR WORLD IS NOT ENTERING A NEW ERA OF RICH AND POOR, BUT MORE AND MORE AN ERA OF THE INCLUDED AND THE EXCLUDED. (Susan George)

September 8, 2016 admin

-There is a class war, it is true. But it is my class, the class of the rich, that is fighting it –and we are winning. (Warren Buffett) -We are…

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323 YES, WE EVENTUALLY ALL HAVE BEGGING RIGHTS, BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT. (part 3 of 3)

September 8, 2016 admin

Human Rights and Human Security -The respect of the rights of others is what peace is all about. -At a minimum, human security means freedom from violence and from the…

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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)

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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)

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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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