PHM-Exch> [ESCR-Right-to-Health] HEALTH AND JUSTICE ACTIVISTS GATHER TO DEBATE STRATEGIES TO ACHIEVE THE RIGHT TO HEALTH

[Claudio Schuftan]

On 25-26 March 2011, EQUINET convened a meeting of 70 activists and
experts from 16 countries, including from EQUINET, mostly from
Southern Africa but also from India, Brazil, the United States and
Europe. The meeting’s aim was to build a common vision, and if
possible programme, for realising the right to health and to discuss
how to mobilise and support new campaigns for health at local,
national, regional and global levels. A further objective of the
consultation was to explore and debate whether, in future, a Framework
Convention on Global Health (FCGH) could be an effective international
legal instrument for coordination of currently fragmented activities,
sustainable and sufficient resource mobilisation and standard-setting
to realise the right to health. The conference reinforced the view
that there is a need to mobilise people from the grass-roots level to
fight for their own rights to health by educating people on and
popularising the right to health, and linking community and national
movements into a truly global movement of for the right to health.
Finally, it confirmed the importance of exploring the idea of a future
FCGH as one component of this struggle.
Further details: http://www.equinetafrica.org/newsletter/index.php?id=8228
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