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  Health issues: General materials - 1997-2000  

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2000:

Medical and Psychosocial Services for Victims of Human Rights Violations (Amnesty International, 23 Nov. 2000)

Farm laborers run high risk of health woes: Most in state lacking care, survey finds - California farm workers in the prime of their lives are far more likely than the general population to suffer health problems ranging from high blood pressure and obesity to tooth decay, according to a first-of-its-kind survey released Tuesday. (Andy Furillo, Sacramento Bee, 22 Nov. 2000)

"What is Society Willing to Spend on Human Beings?" (Multinational Monitor, Nov. 2000)

Double Standards: U.S. Manufacturers Exploit Lax Occupational Safety and Health Enforcement in Mexico's Maquiladoras: An interview with Garrett Brown (Multinational Monitor, Nov. 2000)

Power and Pain: Worker Organization and Workplace Safety in Southern Africa - An Interview with Rene Loewenson (Multinational Monitor, Nov. 2000)

A History of the Deadly Dust: An Interview with Barry Castleman (Multinational Monitor, Sep. 2000)

Global Asbestos Justice: South African Asbestos Victims Win Right to Sue Cape plc in UK Courts (Laurie Kazen-Allen, Multinational Monitor, Sep. 2000)

A Breath of Fresh Air: WTO Ruling Upholds France's Asbestos Ban, Rejects Canadian Challenge (Laurie Kazen-Allen, Multinational Monitor, Sep. 2000)

Milking Profits in Pakistan (Muddassir Rizvi, Multinational Monitor, Sep. 2000)

Choking Off the Right to Sue: GAF's Campaign to Restrict Asbestos Victims' Rights (Charlie Cray, Multinational Monitor, Sep. 2000)

A Human Rights Perspective on the Digital Divide: The Human Right to Communicate (William J. McIver, Jr., Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University, Sep. 2000)

Observations on the right to water as a human right (statement submitted to the UN by International Council of Environmental Law, 4 Aug. 2000)

Harming the Healers: Violations of the human rights of health professionals (Amnesty International, 21 July 2000)

Aids: The disease ten times as deadly as war (Sarah Boseley, Guardian [UK], 8 July 2000)

Communities Come together to Demand Rights [India]: Over two hundred activists representing people's movements, trade unions, and NGO's working among people affected by mining operations met at the First National Convention in Tukkuguda near Hyderabad on 28 May 2000 - Communities are kept in the dark before mining begins. People are not aware of its implications to their health, water resources and the environment. (Labour File, June-July 2000) 

Unhealthy Policies from the World Bank: An Interview with Dr. Vineeta Gupta [India] (Multinational Monitor, June 2000)

Death by Overwork: Corporate Pressure on Employees Takes a Fatal Toll in Japan (Darius Mehri, Multinational Monitor, June 2000)

Narrowing the 10/90 Gap in Health Research: Less than 10% of the estimated US$56 billion spent annually on health research by the public and private sectors is devoted to diseases or conditions that account for 90% of the global burden of disease. This economically costly and socially unfair situation is at the heart of the 10/90 Report on Health Research 2000, released here today by the Global Forum for Health Research. (Global Forum for Health Research, 2 May 2000)

The Marlboro Man Rides to China (Robert Weissman, Multinational Monitor, May 2000)

Public-private partnerships: illustrative examples:  two examples of public-private partnerships: UNDP / World Bank / WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR); Philanthropic drug donation programmes (Adetokunbo Lucas, Chair of the Foundation Council of the Global Forum for Health Research, April 2000) 

The business response to HIV/AIDS: impact and lessons learned [Section 5, "Profiles of business activities in response to HIV/AIDS", includes profiles of American International Assurance, Thailand; The Body Shop, Japan; Warsaw Marriott Hotel; Larsen & Toubro, India; Volkswagen do Brasil; Molson Breweries, Canada; Chevron Nigeria; Standard Chartered Bank, UK; International Hotel & Restaurant Association; Anglo Coal, South Africa; Eskom, South Africa; ALMS, Czech Republic; Teddy Exports, India; Bristol Myers Squibb, USA; The Shell Company of Thailand] (Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum in collaboration with UNAIDS and Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS, 2000)

1999:

Nestlés new "monitoring" strategy - does it make any difference to infant health? (Baby Milk Action, Oct. 1999)

Globalization and Health (Dr. Nils Daulaire, Global Health Council, 12 July 1999)

Physicians and the Ethic of Human Rights (Leonard S. Rubenstein, Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights, in Minnesota Medicine, July 1999)

Native Americans denounce toxic legacy (Danielle Knight, Inter Press Service, 14 June 1999)

Amartya Sen on development and health (Adrea Mach, in To Our Health: The Internal Newsletter of the World Health Organization, May 1999)

1998:

Human Development and Human Rights: Report on the Oslo Symposium, 2-3 Oct. 1998 (UNDP, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

1997:

Colonos' complaint  [Ecuador] (Emily Walmsley, Index on Censorship, 8 Aug. 1997)

INDIGENOUS-ECUADOR: Amazon Tribe's Fight Against Oil Companies (Inter Press Service, 6 Jan. 1997)