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Friday, 20 February 2009 |
 In this episode of Making the Links Radio, we broadcast the voices of three prominent global health activists – Maija Kages, David Sanders and Jerry Speigel who will be bringing you their perspectives about Global Health Watch 2. The recently released Global Health Watch 2 provides much needed connections in understanding the state of the world's health. Global Health Watch comes out of the largest ever civil society mobilizations in health – the first Peoples Health Assembly, which created the Peoples Health Charter, a call to action on the root causes of ill-health and the lack of access to essential health care. The publication of Global Health Watch provided the globe with a much needed alternative world health report. This second report, Global Health Watch 2 – following in the direction of the First Global Health Watch - critiques both the state of global health and the inadequate global response to poor health and widening disparities. It lays out an explicitly political understanding of the current state of health around the world - highlighting poverty as the biggest epidemic the global public health community faces, underlining the importance of economic policy as a health issue, and emphasizing the impending and potentially cataclysmic effects of climate change on peoples health throughout the world. It also addresses other key underlying determinants of health – access to sanitation facilities, water and food, war and conflict, the state of primary education, economic and social development of communities. The report emphasizes not just the health needs of the poor and vulnerable people but also their relationship with the rich and powerful. Improving the situation of the world's poor cannot be achieved through aid or charity alone. Profoundly unjust and unequal power relationships need to be tackled. Listen Now!
You can obtain more information on Global Health Watch 2 at www.ghwatch.org or www.phmovement.org .
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Last Updated ( Friday, 20 February 2009 )
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Bali to Poznan to Copenhagen - Can We Save the Earth? |
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009 |
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In this episode of Making the Links Radio, Don Kossick interviews Rosa Kouri. Exploring the shifting dynamics of climate change negotiations from Bali to Poznan to Copenhagen, Kouri explores how global leaders are approaching the global threat of climate change, including the shameful record of Canadian negotiators at these talks. Rosa Kouri has been a Canadian Global Youth Delegate to the negotiations in Bali and Poznan, Poland. Listen Now!
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Appeal to the UN, EU, Arab League and US |
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Tuesday, 13 January 2009 |
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We, as citizens of the world, are seriously concerned about peace and justice among the Palestinians and Israelis, and appeal for immediate actions to ensure a comprehensive ceasefire in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and for an end to the growing immediate and long-term humanitarian crisis. Furthermore, we urge the assignment of Mr Martti Ahtisaari, the Nobel Peace Prize winner of 2008, to negotiate a lasting peace in the region. We also appeal to the Israeli and Palestinian leadership to value the human life of Palestinians and Israelis equally and to agree to an immediate ceasefire. The conflict can and must be resolved. The human rights abuses and killing of civilians can and must come to an end. Muslims, Christians and Jews of the region can and must find a way to exist in peace, with equal rights and obligations. This was a reality in the past and can be achieved in the present. Real progress towards a lasting peace can be made only through a genuine and balanced engagement by the international community. Both Palestinians and Israelis have the right to live in peace regardless of their religion and ethnicity. The world community has to be consistent in condemning the ongoing killing of civilians and abuse of human rights, no matter which party is responsible for them. We appeal to the international community to give Mr Martti Ahtisaari the mandate to be the international peace negotiator in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The former President of neutral Finland, Mr Ahtisaari has an impressive career resolving international conflicts in several regions, including Aceh and Kosovo. As the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced: "...Ahtisaari is an outstanding international mediator. Through his untiring efforts and good results, he has shown what role mediation of various kinds can play in the resolution of international conflicts." We respectfully appeal to Mr Ahtisaari to accept this new role as a negotiator if it is offered for him. The petition will be delivered to UN General Assembly, the UN Security Council, the European Union, the Arab League and the US President on 20th January 2009, the day of Barack Obama's inauguration. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 13 January 2009 )
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