PHM-Exch> [PHM NEWS] PHM solidarity with health rights activists and organizations in the Philippines

[HEAD Philippines]

Our warmest thanks to this solidarity.  We are continuing and vow tol
continue with our health and development work for, with and by the people.
Onwards with the struggle!

- DR Joseph M. Carabeo, secretary-general, Health Alliance for Democracy

On Fri, 17 May 2019 at 12:29, Claudio Schuftan <cschuftan at phmovement.org>
wrote:

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> 16 May 2019 People’s Health Movement Global: solidarity with health rights
> activists and organisations in the Philippines The People’s Health Movement
> (PHM) denounces the on-going smear and vilification campaign against health
> rights organizations and threats, harassments and intimidation of health
> activists in the Philippines. The PHM expresses deep concern over the lives
> and safety of the leaders and members of progressive and dedicated
> organizations who were wrongfully and maliciously labeled by the government
> as terrorists and communist fronts; whose offices were visited by police
> intelligence agents for their communist/terrorists profiling; and whose
> leaders and members are being “tailed” and threatened. The red-tagging,
> threats, harassments and intimidations of health rights organizations,
> Alliance of Health Workers, Council for Health and Development, Health
> Alliance for Democracy, Health Action for Human Rights, Filipino Nurses
> United, Prescription for Peace, Health Sector Against Tyranny and Nars ng
> Bayan (Nurses for the People) is proof of the shrinking space for civil
> society organizations, most especially progressive and activist
> organizations. PHM believes that organizations and advocates who work and
> fight for the people’s right to health should not be subjected to
> red-tagging, threats, harassments and intimidations simply for doing what
> the government fails to do. PHM acknowledges the great work that the
> red-tagged health organizations are doing in the Philippines. Most of them,
> especially the Alliance of Health Workers, Council for Health and
> Development, Health Alliance for Democracy are active members of
> PHM-Philippines. The Alliance of Health Workers (AHW) is a non-stock,
> non-profit, people’s organization that has been working for the economic
> and democratic rights of health workers and the people’s right to health
> since 1984. In its more than three decades long of dedicated work, AHW has
> played major role in the enactment of the Magna Carta of Public Health
> Workers (Republic Act 7305), the proclamation of May 7 as Health Workers’
> Day, enactment of significant provisions in the Salary Standardization Law,
> and various concerted efforts that seek to improve the living and working
> conditions of public health workers. The Council for Health and Development
> (CHD) is the national organization of Community-based Health Programs in
> the Philippines. It is a non-stock, non-profit development non-government
> organization that has provided national leadership to CBHPs since 1989. The
> practice of CBHPs in the Philippines which started in 1973 is highly
> recognized in the world as a good practice in empowering communities in
> managing and taking care of their health. The Health Alliance for Democracy
> (HEAD) is a non-stock, non-profit organization that has been working and
> advocating for the promotion of people’s economic, social, political and
> cultural rights to bring about national prosperity and well-being since
> 1984.
> PHM has been working actively with these dedicated Philippine health
> organizations on relevant global health issues such as the privatization of
> public health services, high costs of medicine and neo-liberal policies in
> health that gravely affect people worldwide. PHM views this smear and
> vilification campaign as a systematic attack to spread false information,
> sow fear among the people, and suppress legitimate protests and dissent of
> the people. These actions are also intended to disssuade international
> organizations from giving resources to the campaign, advocacy,
> capacity-building, health services and many other relevant work being
> undertaken by these progressive organizations. PHM stands in solidarity
> with the “maligned” health rights organizations, activists and advocates in
> the Philippines and the Filipino people as they fight for the people’s
> right to health and serve the health needs of the people. PHM calls on the
> Philippine government especially the Armed Forces of the Philippines to
> stop its vilification and smear campaigns, through red-tagging and
> terrorist-labelling, threats, harassments and intimidations against the
> above-mentioned progressive and activist health organizations, their
> leaders and members as well as development workers and human rights
> defenders, their organizations and communities.
> PHM Global Coordinator
> On behalf of PHM Steering Council and Advisory Council
>
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