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836. POVERTY DEPRIVES BILLIONS OF THEIR RIGHT TO LIFE. 835. YOU CANNOT PROTECT NATURE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THE ECONOMY THAT DESTROYS IT. (Alessandra Prampolini) 834. SOWING FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IS WHAT WILL ENSURE FOOD SECURITY. PERIOD. 833. FORMAL EQUALITY EXISTS ON PAPER; INEQUALITY EXISTS IN PEOPLE’S LIVES. (Esteban Gonzalez P.) 832. WE SPEND MORE TIME TRYING TO KEEP TRACK OF INFORMATION THAN USING IT. (Stephen Bezruchka)
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254 ALTHOUGH ETHICS IS THE PROPER LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE; HUMAN RIGHTS IS THE PROPER LANGUAGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH. (Part 3 of 3)

September 8, 2016 admin

-In public health, we uncritically assume scarcity of resources without asking why scarcity. -WHO comes with technical advice, the World Bank comes with money….countries usually prefer the money. F. The…

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253 ALTHOUGH ETHICS IS THE PROPER LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE; HUMAN RIGHTS IS THE PROPER LANGUAGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH. (part 2 of 3)

September 8, 2016 admin

-In public health, we uncritically assume scarcity of resources without asking why scarcity. -WHO comes with technical advice, the World Bank comes with money….countries usually prefer the money. D. The…

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252 ALTHOUGH ETHICS IS THE PROPER LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE; HUMAN RIGHTS IS THE PROPER LANGUAGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH. (part1 of 3)

September 8, 2016 admin

-In public health, we uncritically assume scarcity of resources without asking why scarcity. -WHO comes with technical advice, the World Bank comes with money….countries usually prefer the money. A. The…

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251 HUMAN RIGHTS LEND LEGAL AND MORAL LEGITIMACY AND A SENSE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE TO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: SOME METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS.

September 8, 2016 admin

-By applying a human rights lens, development is understood as unequivocally people-centered. -We know democracy, development and human rights are interdependent and mutually reinforcing. Therefore, sustainability has to be understood…

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250 WHY HUMAN RIGHTS WORK IS TO BE SEEN IN THE REALM OF POLITICAL ACTION.

September 8, 2016 admin

-We will succeed inasmuch as we display the capacity to mobilize collectively behind human rights as a political goal independent-of and often opposed-to the goals that motivate the state and/or…

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249 WE ARE EXPOSED TO A HAMBURGER JOURNALISM FILLED WITH FAST FOOD, WITH HUMAN RIGHTS PREJUDICES, WITH PROPAGANDA AND WITH OVERSIMPLIFICATIONS. (P. Rahola)

September 8, 2016 admin

-Social immobility ends up being the result of weak consensus. (Albino Gomez) …and reports of growing civic discontent are typically not found in newspaper columns. (adapted from Hans Dembowski) -By…

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248 FOR DECADES NOW, WE SEEM TO INTENTIONALLY NOT HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO TRAIN HUMAN BEINGS ON THE CRITICAL ISSUES THAT COMMAND THEIR LIVES.

September 8, 2016 admin

-All humans have rights. But the question is: Do all of them know that…and do they know what their human rights are? (Shula Koenig) -People will have to know their…

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247 HUMAN RIGHTS EMBRACE THE NON-ECONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF DEVELOPMENT*. THEY PROMOTE AND CONSOLIDATE SOCIAL SOLIDARITY. THEY ARE NOT A DISPLAY WINDOW; THEY ENTAIL A DISTINCT PROGRAM, A FULL-BLOWN MOVEMENT. (P. Drucker)

September 8, 2016 admin

The truth is that there are no purely or primarily economic solutions to human rights problems. -Human rights is an unapologetic project for social emancipation in which suffering is related…

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246 HUMAN RIGHTS ARE ABOUT PEOPLE BEING IN CONTROL OF THEIR CHOICES. (Alicia Yamin)

September 8, 2016 admin

-Ultimately, by using the human rights-based framework, we strive to negotiate a new social contract or class compromise from a position of strength and power. (Ted Schrecker) 1. The process…

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245 HAVING RIGHTS DOES NOT PRESUPPOSE A SIMULTANEOUS ABILITY TO CLAIM THEM.

September 8, 2016 admin

-There is a clear difference between having a right and having a right realized. Slaves in the US had the right to freedom before President Lincoln and native Africans in…

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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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