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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Lack of housing forces victims of domestic violence in Latin America to stay with abusers

16 July 2010 – An investigative study on domestic violence and housing in Latin America released today reveals that likely hundreds of thousands of women remain in homes where they are subjected to violence simply because they have no alternative place to go. The 50-page report, released by the Geneva-based international housing rights watchdog the [...]

New report: Social insecurity The financialisation of healthcare and pensions in developing countries

Bretton Woods Project This report aims to raise awareness of private financial institutions’ influence on healthcare and pensions in developing countries. ‘Financialisation’ – the expanding systemic power and scope of finance and financial markets and actors – has persisted, even through the financial crisis, without adequate debate or scrutiny. It argues that the privatisation reforms [...]