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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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260 THERE STILL ARE TOO MANY SKEPTICS AROUND REGARDING THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE MORAL IDEA UNDERPINNING THE RIGHTS OF HUMAN BEINGS.

September 8, 2016 admin

-Is morality a private matter? Decency certainly is a public matter… -Intellectuals pride themselves for their logic, but logic, by definition is deprived of moral responsibility. -By definition, the essence…

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259 A TALE ABOUT INHUMAN WRONGS AND HUMAN RIGHTS.

September 8, 2016 admin

Is it facetious to say that ever more people are ever more worse-off? 1. Human Rights (HR) provide an authoritative legal and moral framework to tackle the deep-rooted causes of…

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258 WHY ARE THE WOMEN IN CONSERVATIVE SOCIETIES SO CAVALIERLY EXPENDABLE? (S. Lewis)

September 8, 2016 admin

-It is in General Comment 28 that we find the more precise guidance of what equal rights of men and of women really mean. -States that are party to the…

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257 WHEN YOU SEE A GOOD MAN, TRY TO IMITATE HIM; WHEN YOU SEE AN INDIFFERENT MAN, EXAMINE YOURSELF. (Confucius)

September 8, 2016 admin

As opposed to a human rights activist, the indifferent person has been called a ‘passivist’ (Geoffrey Cannon) – The world is not dangerous because of the bad people that are…

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256 HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT JUST A POLICY CHOICE, BUT AN IMPERATIVE: HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE US TO REALIZE AND ACT UPON THIS?

September 8, 2016 admin

Human rights work ought to constantly look for political points of entry. 1. Human rights (HR) are global affairs, i.e., matters that straddle national borders, as well as matters that…

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255 IMPLICITLY, IN HUMAN RIGHTS PARLANCE, WE CONSTANTLY SPEAK OF SAVING THE PLANET FOR THE NEXT GENERATION WHEN, IN REALITY, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SAVING OUR GENERATION AND OURSELVES.

September 8, 2016 admin

So, let’s stop talking about our future generations, please. We are talking about our own generation. We also have to stop talking and rather start yelling. For now, our leaders…

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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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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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