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International Roundtable on Maternal mortality, human rights and accountability, 2nd September 2010, Geneva
Mary Robinson(former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights), US Ambassador Donahoe and Dr. Francisco Songane (former Minister of Health, Mozambique) will make keynote addresses.
Other maternal health and human rights experts, from all regions of the world, will also deliver presentations.
Increasingly, maternal mortality is being recognised as a global human rights issue of [...]
First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR) – Science to Accelerate Universal Health Coverage
The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners are pleased to announce the First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR) - Science to Accelerate Universal Health Coverage.
Researchers, policy-makers, funders, and other stakeholders representing diverse constituencies will gather in Montreux, Switzerland to share evidence, identify significant knowledge gaps, and set a research agenda that reflects the needs [...]
Call for Admissions International Students for Master of Public Health 2011- James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC
The James P Grant School of Public Health, established in 2004, has a diverse student body with international and national students each year in its MPH programme. In addition to Bangladesh, students are recruited from Asia, Africa, Australia and South America as well as countries from the North (Canada, Germany, Japan and USA). In the [...]
PAHO/WHO new basic E-Learning course on Health and Human Rights
Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) 2010
English Version available online at: http://bit.ly/cLA1Hy
Spanish, French and Portuguese versions will be available soon.
“… to define the terms public health, health, and human rights; and understand the relationships between health and human rights.
“….be able to recognize the most critical human rights instruments that promote and protect the right [...]
Justice Department Warns State About Discriminatory, Inadequate Treatment
South Carolina: End Segregation of HIV-infected Prisoners
(New York, Aug 6, 2010) – South Carolina should stop segregating HIV-positive prisoners from the rest of the prison population, a policy that promotes stigma and discrimination, Human Rights Watch said today. The US Department of Justice, in a letter to South Carolina prison officials that came to light [...]
Pregnant moms who overeat could make obese babies
MARIA CHENG, Aug 4, 2010
LONDON (AP) – Women who gain too much weight during pregnancy have big babies, putting their children at risk of becoming heavy later on, a new study says.
American researchers followed all births in Michigan and New Jersey between 1989 and 2003. They then focused on women who had more than one [...]
UN Recognizes Access to Clean Water as a Human Right
NEW YORK, New York, July 29, 2010 - Access to clean, safe drinking water is now an official basic human right everywhere in the world, like the rights to life, health, food and adequate housing. The water rights resolution was approved late Wednesday by the United Nations General Assembly, not unanimously, but without opposition.
Safe and clean drinking water and [...]
2010 World Population Data Sheet available on PRB
(July 28, 2010) Many countries are facing a shrinking pool of their working-age populations, often considered to be ages 15 to 64, to support the population ages 65+, jeopardizing pension guarantees and long-term health care programs for the elderly.
Worldwide in 1950, there were 12 persons of working age for every person age 65 or older. [...]
Trafigura found guilty in toxic waste dumping tragedy
Over 100,000 people sought medical attention and there were 15 reported deaths
23 July 2010, Amnesty International
Amnesty International today welcomed the guilty verdict by a Dutch court against the multinational company, Trafigura, for delivering hazardous waste to Amsterdam while concealing the true nature of the waste, and for exporting the waste to Cote D’Ivoire.
Today’s verdict is the [...]
UNICEF signs child protection pact with key rebel group in Darfur
21 July 2010 –- The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today signed a child protection agreement, which includes ending the recruitment of child soldiers, with a major rebel group in the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur.
Under the memorandum of understanding, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) committed itself to “actively support UNICEF work on the [...]