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New publication
‘Health and Human Rights Readers’ by Claudio Schuftan

CEHAT has recently published the book ‘Health and Human Rights Readers’
authored by Dr. Claudio Schuftan, an internationally known Public Health
expert and health activist associated with the People’s Health Movement.
This book is a compilation of fifty-two ‘Readers in Human Rights’,
essays which have been previously circulated by Claudio on various
electronic list-servers, some of the more recent Readers having been
circulated on the PHA-exchange.
The goal underlying the Readers, in Claudio’s words, is “to re-center
the development debate, and to convincingly articulate the reasons for
centering it around human rights. The readers give you food for thought
and for action for just that.”
The Readers discuss a wide range of issues such as Human Rights based
planning; the role of the state, UN and civil society; Health sector
reform and the unmet needs of the poor; Health Care Financing;
vulnerability, access and discrimination; the role of NGOs;
globalization, health rights and health sector reform; the right to
adequate nutrition; the difference between project and process; and
health rights and the law.
These informative yet provoking readers would appeal particularly to
health activists, health professionals and health sector NGO workers who
seek a clearer grasp of health rights and a stimulating guide to action.
Here Claudio squarely places Human Rights concerns at the centre of all
health work, and gives the call for “a start-over, a global movement, a
grassroots revolution around the right to health.”

Health and Human Rights Readers
By Claudio Schuftan
Pgs. vi +111, Paperback
Price Rs. 80 / $5/ £4

(Please add postage per copy - Within India: Rs. 20 / International
postage: $2)
For Copies write to
Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT)


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