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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=announce@phmoz.org href="mailto:announce@phmoz.org">PHM Oz
Announcements</A> </DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><BR><FONT face=Arial></FONT></FONT></DIV><B><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Global Health Watch 2<BR></FONT></B>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Global Health Watch 2 is an
alternative world health report and is available to download from </FONT><A
href="http://www.ghwatch.org/" target=_blank><FONT face=Arial
size=2>http://www.ghwatch.org/</FONT></A>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.<BR><BR>For more information about this launch or PHM
activity in Canberra, please email </FONT><A href="mailto:info@phmoz.org"
target=_blank><FONT face=Arial size=2>info@phmoz.org</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial
size=2>.<BR><BR>Stay tuned for launches in your state or
territory.<BR><BR><BR><B>Further information about Global Health
Watch</B><BR></FONT></DIV>
<P class=gmail_quote><FONT face=Arial size=2>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<BR>was launched on July 20, 2005 in
Ecuador and London. </FONT></P>
<H1 class=gmail_quote><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Watch aims to: </FONT></H1>
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<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>Promote human rights as the basis for health
policy </FONT>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>Counter-balance liberal and market-driven
perspectives </FONT>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shift the health policy agenda to recognise the
political, social and economic barriers to better health </FONT>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>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) </FONT>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>Strengthen the links between civil society
organisations around the world </FONT>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2>Provide a forum for magnifying the voice of the
poor and vulnerable </FONT></LI></UL></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>More information about GHW2 is available
at: </STRONG><A
href="http://www.phmovement.org/cms/en/node/862"><STRONG>http://www.phmovement.org/cms/en/node/862</STRONG></A></FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>