PHA-Exch> Canberra: Launching the Global Health Watch 2

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From: PHM Oz Announcements 


Global Health Watch 2


Global Health Watch 2 is an alternative world health report and is available to download from http://www.ghwatch.org/

For those in Canberra, a launch of the GHW2 will be held at 2:30pm Wednesday 26 November 2008 in the foyer of the Finkel Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University.

For more information about this launch or PHM activity in Canberra, please email info at phmoz.org.

Stay tuned for launches in your state or territory.


Further information about Global Health Watch

At the World Health Assembly in May 2003, the People's Health Movement, together with GEGA and Medact discussed the need for civil society to produce its own alternative World Health Report. It was felt that the WHO reports were inadequate; that there was no report that monitored the performance of global health institutions; and, that the dominant neo-liberal discourse in public health policy also needed to be challenged by a more people-centred approach that highlights social justice. The idea of an alternative World Health Report since developed into an initiative called the 'Global Health Watch' the first of which
was launched on July 20, 2005 in Ecuador and London. 

The Watch aims to: 
  a.. Promote human rights as the basis for health policy 
  b.. Counter-balance liberal and market-driven perspectives 
  c.. Shift the health policy agenda to recognise the political, social and economic barriers to better health 
  d.. Improve civil society's capacity to hold national and international governments, global international financial institutions and corporations to account (including WHO and the World Bank) 
  e.. Strengthen the links between civil society organisations around the world 
  f.. Provide a forum for magnifying the voice of the poor and vulnerable 

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More information about GHW2 is available at: http://www.phmovement.org/cms/en/node/862
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