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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=5 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New";font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>PRESS RELEASE <span
style='mso-tab-count:10'> </span></span></font></b><st1:date
Month="8" Day="18" Year="2005"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font
size=5 face=Arial><span style='font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold;
mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>18 </span></font></b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><font face=Arial><span style='mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
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normal'><font size=5 face=Arial><span style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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<div style='border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none;border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><font size=6 face=Arial><span style='font-size:26.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>PEOPLES
HEALTH MOVEMENT<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=4 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New";font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><span
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"Courier New";font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>WHO’s</span></font></b></span><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=4 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Courier New";font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> </span></font></b><st1:City><st1:place><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=4 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Ban</span></font></b><st1:PersonName><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><font size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:
bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>gk</span></font></b></st1:PersonName><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=4 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>ok</span></font></b></st1:place></st1:City><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><font size=4 face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold;
mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'> Charter a big disappointment, says PHM! <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>Ban</span></font></b><st1:PersonName><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>gk</span></font></b></st1:PersonName><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'>ok, 18 August 2005:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <span class=GramE><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;
mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The</span></i></b></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-weight:bold;
mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> Ban</span></i></b></span></font><st1:PersonName><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>gk</span></font></i></b></st1:PersonName><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>ok
Charter for Health Promotion</span></font></i></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, adopted at the recently concluded
6th International Conference on Health Promotion, is an inadequate and timid
document that falls far short of what is required to tackle global health
problems today.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The
Conference was organized by the World Health <span class=SpellE>Organisation</span>
and </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thailand</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>’s
Ministry of Public Health and was attended by 700 leading health promotion
experts from more than 100 countries around the world.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The People’s Health Movement
(PHM), an international civil society network of health professionals,
academics and non-government organizations, is dismayed and disappointed by the
Charter </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:X-NONE'>and by the failure of WHO to take the
opportunity to offer leadership on a progressive agenda to improve the health
of the global poor.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>“Although
we support the aims of the Charter and its call for “political action and
sustained advocacy” to promote health, the Charter fails to highlight the
current regime of global economic governance as a primary cause of increased
poverty, widening income inequalities and poor health” said David McCoy, a
researcher associated with PHM. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>“It
also avoids identifying the political barriers to health for all and
consequently offers little in the form of bold or concrete recommendations to
advance this agenda” he said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The failure
to provide a robust critique of the causes of global poverty and failing health
systems, results in the Charter omitting any reference to the negative social
and health impacts of neo-liberal public policy, or the exploitation of natural
and human resources by the corporate sector and the wealthy global minority </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:X-NONE'>or to
the rapidly increasing concentration of wealth</span></font><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>. </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>While the <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal;font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Ban</span></i></b></span></font><st1:PersonName><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>gk</span></font></i></b></st1:PersonName><b
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>ok
Charter</span></font></i></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial'> echoes previous declarations that health is a human
right, it has not grasped the opportunity to call for human and health rights
to take precedence </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'>over the provisions of economic policy and trade and financial
agreements. This <b><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Charter</span></i></b>
does not even call for the routine implementation of equity-focused health
impact assessments of trade agreements – an omission that is grave and an
issue that WHO must not be allowed to ignore. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA'>There are
many concrete strategies that the global public health community should be
advocating, but which are neglected in <span class=GramE>this <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal;font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Charter</span></i></b></span>.
These include:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .25in'><![if !supportLists]><font size=2
face=Wingdings><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;
mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings;mso-ansi-language:
EN-CA;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ø<font
size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Further cancellations of unsustainable and
unjustified debt<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .25in'><![if !supportLists]><font size=2
face=Wingdings><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;
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EN-CA;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ø<font
size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>The end of economic <span class=SpellE>conditionalities</span>
on debt cancellation, development assistance or loans/grants from international
financial institutions and other development banks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA'>The
democratic reform of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank<span
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA'>The
establishment of a fair international tax regime to eradicate unacceptable <span
class=SpellE>transnational</span> tax avoidance <span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold'><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Promotion of appropriate global redistribution and
the public financing for essential services to all citizens<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>The renegotiation or even scrapping of multilateral
and bilateral trade agreements that have negative impact on public health<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>The adoption of an agenda to repair and develop the
capacity of public sector health systems in all countries particularly
developing nations<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-CA style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-CA;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>Ratification of the United Nations Convention on
Corruption to reduce the negative health effects of bribery and other forms of
illegal and unethical practices involving multinational corporations and
governments.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Unless the
global public health community is serious about identifying, naming and
tackling the underlying political barriers and vested interests that lie in the
way of health promotion, we run the risk of changing little. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>It is vital that WHO, as the lead multi-lateral agency for
the promotion of health, takes a more constructive and independent position
with respect to the political and economic actors and institutions that retard
the promotion of health. It is no longer enough to merely promote well-meaning
declarations that lack any meaningful equity-based strategies to improve
health.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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