The right to health is enshrined in international conventions and declarations, is one of the established human rights in many constitutions of post-colonial states, and is regularly cited at …
The idea of charity is still omnipresent in thinking about international assistance. The word ‘donor’ is a witness of that: some countries ‘donate’ or give; they do not see themselves as owing something to other countries or their inhabitants; nor do they see themselves as partners in a shared effort. …
This year again medico will be part of the German Public Health Congress Poverty and Health taking place in Berlin from the 6th to 7th of March. We invited partners and other well know speakers to …
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Pregnant women in Sierra Leone have a legal right to free medical care. But the country lacks hospitals and midwives to provide it. The government refuses to use revenues from the extractive sector for health care. The reality of mining makes a mockery of any social policy agenda. …
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The People´s Health Movement-Latin America (MSP-LA) and the National Front for Peoples Health - Ecuador express our deep concern about the processes that threaten the rights of peoples, communities …
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Louis Reynolds is Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town and Member of the People’s Health Movement in South Africa. …
Even though the number of landmine victims in Afghanistan has fallen by 60% in the last few years, there is still danger to life and limb lurking everywhere – in the soil, in the fields, on the way …
Interview with Diana Abu Abbas, Management Coordinator of MSHC. …
In an increasingly globalised world with new cross-border threats to public health and widening disparities between populations, civil society actors are challenging the existing …
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Proposals and international debates for a radical change in politics …
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medico international has been campaigning for health to be recognised as a human right for more than 40 years. In 2010 alone, the Frankfurt-based aid and human rights organisation provided funding …
The People’s Health Movement (PHM) was founded in December 2000 in Savar, Bangladesh. 1600 people from 93 countries came together at the premises of medico’s partner Gonoshasthaya Kendra: …
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As representatives of organisations working on campaigns for health and social justice, of …
The signatories of this letter represent a wide range of public interest groups that are committed …
The unprecedented medical progress of the recent decades has almost completely bypassed the majority …
Drugs should be a blessing to mankind. But does drug research come up to its own expectations? The …
Documentation of the one-day symposium on global health and intellectual property, May 10th 2007. …
