Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
It has taken me some time to realize how relevant the AIDS activist slogan and perspective SILENCE=DEATH, ACTION =LIFE is to the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic. I have reflected in previous writings on the differences and similarities between the AIDS crisis (which continues) and the (...)
Fred Leplat explores the international response to the pandemic.
At the end of January Britain passed the gruesome official milestone of over 100,000 deaths, and possibly 120,000 . Most governments across Europe have been following a similar strategy to that in Britain. Initially hoping for the best, that “herd (...)
About 100 Amazon employees at a Staten Island fulfilment centre plan to go on strike at noon on Monday. They are demanding that the site be closed for at least two weeks and sanitised, and for workers to be compensated.
About 100 Amazon employees at a New York fulfilment centre plan to go on (...)
While living though the current Coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis I am struck by the connections between the AIDS crisis (which is also not over) and this health crisis. These connections are not often being made or remembered in the commentaries and analysis I have seen. At the same time there are (...)
For International Safe Abortion Day, on 28 September, we are celebrating 28 aspects of progress and success we’ve seen internationally this year.
This year marks the 29th time our movement has celebrated 28 September as an international day for safe abortion. It has been a busy year for (...)
An emancipatory approach in the era of neoliberal globalization.
The objective of this collective work is to contribute to the debate on the role of health (and health struggles) in a general policy of emancipation with view to social change. Indeed, the brutal functioning of contemporary (...)
In the run up to the British General election on June 8, the Labour Party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, has published the most radical manifesto of any major party in many decades. In doing so they have succeeded in generating a real political debate; arguing that austerity is a (...)
The reinstatement of the US government’s Mexico City Policy by President Donald J. Trump, which prohibits nongovernmental organisations that receive US funding from either performing or providing counselling or information on abortion, will undermine access to safe abortion services and endanger (...)
A meeting of the Red Network was held in Athens on April 4, 2015. One of the three workshops brought together about a hundred people who are active to varying degrees in the health sector: doctors, nurses, paramedics, those responsible for hospital pharmacies, cleaners, members of local (...)
The shocking ’austerity’-imposed destruction of Greece’s once proud healthcare system is a key reason Greeks have turned to Syriza, finds London GP Louise Irvine in an eye witness account.
In October I visited Greece to see the impact of austerity on the Greek people, in particular on health and (...)
Expenses for medicine at Danish public hospitals have doubled in only seven years. Prognoses say that in 2015 health authorities will have to allocate 1.1. billion Euro for this purpose.
Of course this provokes debate among hospital professionals, politicians, journalists and academics in the (...)
Air pollution killed 7 million people worldwide in 2012, about one-in-eight of all deaths, according to new estimates released Tuesday by the World Health Organization.
That figure more than doubles previous estimates, making air pollution the single greatest environmental health risk today. (...)
Catalonia is one of the first autonomous communities to have implemented austerity policies in the domain of health: closure of hospitals, operating rooms, emergency services, night care, some health centres, payment of one euro per prescription and privatization of certain health services, (...)
HEALTH POLICY REFORM – GLOBAL HEALTH VERSUS PRIVATE PROFIT BY JOHN LISTER PUBLISHED BY LIBRI PUBLICATIONS AT £22.00 JUNE 2013.
John Lister’s new book is an impressively researched 346-page book with 64 pages of bibliography. It is a comprehensive update of his first book on this subject (...)
This contribution was made on behalf of the French delegation to the conference of the European Network against the Privatization and Commercialization of Health and Social Protection held in Brussels on March 15, 2013.
The basis of the health policy of the European Union (EU) is the Treaty (...)
The term “healthism” is used in two different ways. In the more neutral or positive sense, it just refers to self-care, and if you do a web search for “healthism,” some of the sites you’ll find simply offer information about nutrition, exercise, home remedies, things like that. But the term also has (...)
Half-baked compromise in Dutch government coalition agreement continues disastrous coffeeshop policy.
The new coalition government of conservative liberals (VVD) and social-democrats (PvdA) presented its coalition agreement on Monday. They agreed to abolish the cannabis pass , but access to (...)
Nuclear and construction industry among the most risky
Anti-asbestos campaigner denounces ‘collateral damage of progress’ world over
New Delhi, Aug 11: ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA) and Ban Asbestos Network of India (BANI) welcome the refusal of Annie Thébaud-Mony director of research at Frenchs (...)
Annie Thébaud-Mony Honorary Director of the Inserm
Madam Minister,
Madame Cécile Duflot Minister of Equality of the Territories and Housing, Hotel de Castries 72 rue de Varenne – 75 007 Paris
In your letter of the 20th of July, 2012, you informed me formally of my nomination to the Legion of (...)
Govt Must Stop Import of White Asbestos to Prevent Public Heath Disaster
Indo- Canada Free Trade Agreement Should Exclude White Asbestos Trade
New Delhi, July 5, 2012: Even as the central Government has publicly revealed that it does not favour carcinogenic chrysotile asbestos (white (...)
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