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In the Beijing Declaration, the WHO devalues a human right for the poor by endorsing traditional medicine. |
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Written by William Wang
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Monday, 09 March 2009 18:01 |
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 On November 8, 2008, the Beijing Declaration was announced by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Beijing, China, to promote the utilization of traditional medicine globally, especially in poor countries such as those in Asia and Africa.
Unfortunately, China is the only country that suggests employ traditional medicine for the poor’s primary health care, which is otherwise done by conventional medicine throughout the rest of the world. When I unveiled this fact, the people in China began suspecting their government. The people asked that if traditional Chinese medicine is compatible with conventional medicine, how come other countries refuse to recognize it?
Over the past sixty years, the Chinese government has been making the mistake of dual endorsement of conventional and traditional medicine. Now, in an attempt to cover up, the government calls for traditional Chinese medicine to join the rest of the world. With the help of the head of the WHO, Mrs. Chen, a Hong Kong native, the WHO announced the Beijing Declaration after a conference in Beijing in November 2008, which subscribed to the backwards situation in China.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 08 June 2010 06:46 |
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Que Ocurre en el Mundo un Dia como Hoy |
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Written by Maria Belen Avellaneda
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 00:00 |
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 Un día como hoy ascendía en mi país un gobierno militar. Un día como hoy marchaban a la Plaza de Mayo madres y abuelas en busca de sus hijos y nietos. Un día como hoy se llevaban jóvenes a una guerra de la cual no volverían. Un día como hoy de escribir estas líneas en Argentina hubiese DESAPARECIDO. Si bien los tiempos han cambiado, un día como hoy en un centenar de lugares los derechos humanos son soslayados.
De acuerdo con el Artículo primero de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos “Todos los seres humanos nacen libres e iguales en dignidad y derechos y, dotados como están de razón y conciencia, deben comportarse fraternalmente los unos con los otros”[1], esto significa que los derechos humanos son inalienables no están restringidos por un espacio y un tiempo. No obstante, existe considerable evidencia de que tales derechos son violados día a día por Estados e individuos que gozan de impunidad.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 16:41 |
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Improving Human Rights and Development |
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Written by Line Løvåsen
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Wednesday, 17 September 2008 08:42 |
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 In this essay I will review different aspects of the human rights system, having my main focus on the global aspect. This is to me the most interesting as the world has become more and more interconnected in several areas. The aspect I will concentrate on most in the global aspect is the deep culture of the West, containing universalism, capitalism as examples. I am usually sceptical to Western global “missions”. It is not difficult to find negative aspects of the practice of globalization, democracy and development. I am more positive to human rights. Galtung (1996) discusses if there is “a common human thing” which could be the secret of cooperation and prosperity for mankind. I will in this essay argue that this is an extremely important question in a global and unequal world which obviously does not respect each others differences. I argue that HR might wake up the feeling of this.I will in my essay contribute with suggestions for a positive development of HR. I will do this by highlighting the strength of the concept, and then address necessary deficits to improve. I will argue that addressing deep culture’s influence in the concept is crucial for improvement. First I will give a general outline of the ABC of the system and its approach to development.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 16:41 |
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Perspective: The Children of the Valley |
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Written by Shoma Chatterji
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Saturday, 04 April 2009 19:07 |
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October 14th 2008, 6.50am, on a gutted road in the valley of Kashmir, a group of six Kashmiri girls armed with cameras was traveling in a jeep. They pressed the trigger of their cameras pointing at everything that took their fancy. Every now and then, they screamed for the driver to stop the jeep, sprang out from all sides and shot photos to their heart’s content. The workshop was conducted by photographer Nitin Upadhye. Joy Dutta, Ritesh Menon, Saloni Gadgil and Hetal Bhavsar lent their expensive cameras for the workshop. The people of Kashmir enjoyed being captured on camera by these little ones who held cameras in their hands for the first time. It was a photography workshop of Basera-e-Tabassum (Abode of Smiles), an NGO formed under the larger umbrella of Borderless World Foundation.
These girl victims of J & K are looked after by Borderless World Foundation (BWF) in three different places in the valley. In 1998, a group of young persons headed by Gh. Mohiuddin Mir, a resident of Beerwah, decided to work for the uplift of socially ignored and under privileged. Alongwith like-minded people from Pune, the Borderless World Foundation (BWF) was born in 2002 . The project for J&K was named Basera-e-Tabassum (BeT). Its aim was to provide food, shelter and education to orphan girl children between 4 and 10 years in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The main emphasis is on the education of the girl children. In 2003, two Pune activists, Bharati Mamani and Adhik Kadam came to the valley to found an orphanage for girl children in the border district of Kupwara at Salkote Haihama, which had 24000 children just holding on to the edges of life.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 17 May 2009 11:00 |
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