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International Conference on Right to Health: the Case of Pharmaceutical Transnational Corporations

The Center for the Study of Violence (NEV/USP) would like to invite researchers, professors, students, NGOs, human rights activists and the general public to take part in this forum of discussion, which is going to take place on August 30th and 31st of 2010. In this website, you will be able to register for the event, [...]

The Draft Plan of Action for the second phase of the World Programme for Human Rights Education (WPHRE)

The Draft Plan of Action for the second phase of the World Programme for Human Rights Education (WPHRE) has been made available on the Human Rights Council website. The Plan of Action  has several references to child health and rights and mainstreaming education of health professionals. You may download the draft Plan of Action at: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/15session/A.HRC.15.28_en.pdf

New publication: Counselling for Maternal and Newborn Health Care. A handbook for building skills

The main aim of this MNH Counselling Handbook is to strengthen counselling and communication skills of health providers including skilled birth attendants, helping them to effectively discuss with women, their husbands/partners and families and communities the important issues surrounding pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, postnatal and post-abortion care. Key information from the clinical guide “Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum [...]

Boosting child vaccines across the world

Vivienne Parry, Freelance broadcaster BCC News Vaccination is at a crossroads in the developing world, delegates were told at the recent International Paediatric Association congress in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is the first time ever that this annual congress has been held in a sub-saharan country. Although Johannesburg no longer echoes to the sound of [...]

‘Being fat at four means a life of ill-health’

By Jane Elliott, Health reporter, BBC News, 14 August 2010 Children who are overweight at the age of four face a lifetime of ill-health, according to a leading expert. Dr David Haslam, a GP who chairs the National Obesity Forum, says that the age of four is a crucial point, because once a child starts [...]

Childhood stress leads to adult ill health, studies say

BBC News 14 August 2010 Adversity and stress early in life leads to long-term ill health and early death, a group of psychologists warn. A series of studies suggest that childhood stress caused by poverty or abuse can lead to heart disease, inflammation, and speed up cell ageing. The American Psychological Association meeting heard that [...]

Children’s Rights Principles of Business

UNICEF, Save the Children and the UN Global Compact are working with business leaders to create a set of universal principles to ensure that their companies’ actions have a positive impact on children. The Children’s Principles of Business – which will be launched in 2011 – will be based on the Convention on the Rights [...]

The worldwide campaign to end the institutionalisation of children

After years of fighting abuses against children on a country-by-country basis, Disability Rights International (DRI) has gathered much evidence that the institutionalisation of children with disabilities is a worldwide problem. Over the past 16 years they have documented abuses against children in over 25 countries in the Americas, the United States, Eastern Europe and Russia, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]