<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Dear all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Believe it or not, our Charter is 22+ years old.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Most of us have probably not reread it for a long time and newer members may have never read it in detail.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">It is only 8 pages long and can be read in 15-20 minutes. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">More than for memories' sake we invite you to re-read it to reinvigorate our commitments and to show how seminal a document it is since it still applies today. Take the time to read it!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Note that the Charter is available in 33 languages. You can go to <a href="https://phmovement.org/the-peoples-charter-for-health/">https://phmovement.org/the-peoples-charter-for-health/</a> and read it in your own language. (Also, as you have it in your own language, disseminate it to like-minded people and groups and invite them to endorse it on our PHM website ). </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">People’s
Charter for Health</span><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">INTRODUCTION<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">In
1978, at the Alma</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Ata
Conference, ministers from 134<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">member
countries in association with WHO and UNICEF<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">declared
“Health for All by the Year 2000” selecting Primary<span></span></span></p>
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Care as the best tool to achieve it.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Unfortunately,
that dream never came true. The health status<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">of
third world populations has not improved. In many cases it<span></span></span></p>
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deteriorated further. Currently we are facing a global health<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">crisis,
characterized by growing inequalities within and between<span></span></span></p>
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New threats to health are continually emerging . This<span></span></span></p>
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compounded by negative forces of globalization which<span></span></span></p>
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the equitable distribution of resources with regard to<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">the
health of people and especially that of the poor.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Within
the health sector, failure to implement the principles of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">primary
health care, as originally conceived in Alma</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Ata
has<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">significantly
aggravated the global health crisis.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Governments
and the international bodies are fully responsible<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">for
this failure.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">It has
now become essential to build up a concerted<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">international
effort to put the goals of health for all to its<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">rightful
place on the development agenda. Genuine, people-centered<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">initiatives
must therefore be strengthened in order to<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">increase
pressure on decision</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐ </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">makers,
governments and the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">private
sector to ensure that the vision of Alma</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐ </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Ata
becomes a<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">reality.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Several
international organizations and civil society<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">movements,
NGOs and women’s groups decided to work<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">together
towards this objective. This group together with<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">others
committed to the principles of primary health care and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">people’s
perspectives organized the “People’s Health Assembly”<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">which
took place form 4</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">8
December 2000 in Bangladesh, at<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Savar,
on the campus of the Gonoshasthasthaya Kendra or GK<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">(People’s
Health Centre).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">1453
participants form 92 countries came to the Assembly<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">which
was the culmination of eighteen months of preparatory<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">action
around the globe. The preparatory process elicited<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">unprecedented
enthusiasm and participation of a broad cross<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">section
of people who have been involved in thousands of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">village
meetings, district level workshops and national<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">gatherings.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:white">1</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:white"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The
plenary sessions at the Assembly covered five main<span></span></span></p>
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Health, Life and Well</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Being;
Inequality, Poverty and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Health;
Health Care and Health Services; Environment and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Survival;
and The Ways Forward. People from all over the world<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">presented
testimonies of deprivation and service failure as well<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">as
those of successful people’s initiatives and organization. Over<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">a
hundred concurrent sessions made it possible for participants<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">to
share and discuss in greater detail different aspects of the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">major
themes and give voice to their specific experiences and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">concerns.
The five days event gave participants the space to<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">express
themselves in their own idiom. They put forward the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">failures
of their respective governments and international<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">organizations
and decided to fight together so that health and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">equitable
development become top priorities in the policy<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">makers
agendas at the local, national and international levels.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Having
reviewed their problems and difficulties and shared their<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">experiences,
they have formulated and finally endorsed the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">People’s
Charter for Health. The charter from now on will be the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">common
tool of a worldwide citizens’ movement committed to<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">make
the Alma</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐ </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Ata
dream reality.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We
encourage and invite everyone who shares our concerns and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">aims
to join us by endorsing the charter.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">PREAMBLE<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Health
is a social, economic and political issue and above all a<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">fundamental
human right. Inequality, poverty, exploitation,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">violence
and injustice are at the root of ill</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">health
and the deaths<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">of
poor and marginalised people. Health for all means that<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">powerful
interests have to be challenged, that globalisation has<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">to be
opposed, and that political and economic priorities have<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">to be
drastically changed. This Charter builds on perspectives of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">people
whose voices have rarely been heard before, if at all. It<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">encourages
people to develop their own solutions and to hold<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">accountable
local authorities, national governments,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">international
organisations and corporations.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">VISION<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Equity,
ecologically</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">sustainable
development and peace are at<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">the
heart of our vision of a better world </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐ </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">a
world in which a<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">healthy
life for all is a reality; a world that respects, appreciates<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and
celebrates all life and diversity; a world that enables the </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:white">2</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:white">º<span></span></span></p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black"><span></span></span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">flowering
of people's talents and abilities to enrich each other; a<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">world
in which people's voices guide the decisions that shape<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">our
lives. There are more than enough resources to achieve this<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">vision.<span></span></span></p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">THE
HEALTH CRISIS<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">“Illness
and death every day anger us. Not because there are<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">people
who get sick or because there are people who die. We are<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">angry
because many illnesses and deaths have their roots in the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">economic
and social policies that are imposed on us”<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">(</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">A
voice from Central America)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">In
recent decades, economic changes world</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">wide
have<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">profoundly
affected people’s health and their access to health<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">care
and other social services.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Despite
unprecedented levels of wealth in the world, poverty<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and
hunger are increasing. The gap between rich and poor<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">nations
has widened, as have inequalities within countries,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">between
social classes, between men and women and between<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">young
and old.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">A
large proportion of the world’s population still lacks access to<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">food,
education, safe drinking water, sanitation, shelter, land<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and
its resources, employment and health care services.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Discrimination
continues to prevail. It affects both the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">occurrence
of disease and access to health care.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The
planet’s natural resources are being depleted at an<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">alarming
rate. The resulting degradation of the environment<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">threatens
everyone’s health, especially the health of the poor.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">There
has been an upsurge of new conflicts while weapons of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">mass
destruction still pose a grave threat.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The
world’s resources are increasingly concentrated in the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">hands
of a few who strive to maximise their private profit.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Neoliberal
political and economic policies are made by a small<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">group
of powerful governments, and by international<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">institutions
such as the World Bank, the International Monetary<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Fund
and the World Trade Organisation. These policies,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">together
with the unregulated activities of transnational<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">corporations,
have had severe effects on the lives and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">livelihoods,
health and well</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">being
of people in both North and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">South.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Public
services are not fulfilling people's needs, not least<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">because
they have deteriorated as a result of cuts in<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">governments’
social budgets. Health services have become less<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">accessible,
more unevenly distributed and more inappropriate.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Privatisation
threatens to undermine access to health care still<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">further
and to compromise the essential principle of equity. The<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">persistence
of preventable ill health, the resurgence of diseases<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">such
as tuberculosis and malaria, and the emergence and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">spread
of new diseases such as HIV/AIDS are a stark reminder of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">our
world's lack of commitment to principles of equity and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">justice.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">PRINCIPLES
OF THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER FOR<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">HEALTH<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The attainment of the highest possible level of health and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">well</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">being is a fundamental human right, regardless of a<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">person's
colour, ethnic background, religion, gender, age,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">abilities,
sexual orientation or class.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The principles of universal, comprehensive Primary Health<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Care
(PHC), envisioned in the 1978 Alma Ata Declaration,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">should
be the basis for formulating policies related to<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">health.
Now more than ever an equitable, participatory<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and
intersectoral approach to health and health care is<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">needed.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Governments have a fundamental responsibility to ensure<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">universal
access to quality health care, education and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">other
social services according to people’s needs, not<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">according
to their ability to pay.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The participation of people and people's organisations is<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">essential
to the formulation, implementation and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">evaluation
of all health and social policies and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">programmes.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Health is primarily determined by the political, economic,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">social
and physical environment and should, along with<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">equity
and sustainable development, be a top priority in<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">local,
national and international policy</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">making.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:white"></span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:white"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">A CALL
FOR ACTION<span></span></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">To
combat the global health crisis, we need to take action at all<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">levels
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐ </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">individual, community, national, regional
and global </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and in
all sectors. The demands presented below provide a basis<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">for
action.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">HEALTH
AS A HUMAN RIGHT<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Health
is a reflection of a society’s commitment to<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">equity
and justice. Health and human rights should prevail over<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">economic
and political concerns.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This
Charter calls on people of the world to:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Support all attempts to implement the right to health.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand that governments and international<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">organisations
reformulate, implement and enforce policies<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and
practices which respect the right to health.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Build broad</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">based
popular movements to pressure<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">governments
to incorporate health and human rights into<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">national
constitutions and legislation.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Fight the exploitation of people’s health needs for<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">purposes
of profit.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">TACKLING
THE BROADER DETERMINANTS OF<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">HEALTH<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Economic
challenges:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The
economy has a profound influence on people’s health.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Economic
policies that prioritise equity, health and social<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">well</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">being can improve the health of the people as well as the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">economy.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Political,
financial, agricultural and industrial policies which<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">respond
primarily to capitalist needs, imposed by national<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">governments
and international organisations, alienate people<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">from
their lives and livelihoods. The processes of economic<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">globalisation
and liberalisation have increased inequalities<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">between
and within nations. Many countries of the world and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">especially
the most powerful ones are using their resources,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">including
economic sanctions and military interventions, to<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">consolidate
and expand their positions, with devastating effects<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">on
people’s lives.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">٢<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This
Charter calls on people of the world to:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand transformation of the World Trade Organisation<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and
the global trading system so that it ceases to violate<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">social,
environmental, economic and health rights of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">people
and begins to discriminate positively in favour of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">countries
of the South. In order to protect public health,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">such
transformation must include intellectual property<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">regimes
such as patents and the Trade Related aspects of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Intellectual
Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand the cancellation of Third World debt.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand radical transformation of the World Bank and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">International
Monetary Fund so that these institutions<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">reflect
and actively promote the rights and interests of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">developing
countries.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand effective regulation to ensure that TNCs do not<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">have
negative effects on people's health, exploit their<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">workforce,
degrade the environment or impinge on<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">national
sovereignty.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Ensure that governments implement agricultural policies<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">attuned
to people's needs and not to the demands of the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">market,
thereby guaranteeing food security and equitable<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">access
to food.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand that national governments act to protect public<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">health
rights in intellectual property laws.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand the control and taxation of speculative<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">international
capital flows.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Insist that all economic policies be subject to health,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">equity,
gender and environmental impact assessments<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and
include enforceable regulatory measures to ensure<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">compliance.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Challenge growth</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">centred
economic theories and replace<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">them
with alternatives that create humane and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">sustainable
societies. Economic theories should recognise<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">environmental
constraints, the fundamental importance<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">of
equity and health, and the contribution of unpaid<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">labour,
especially the unrecognised work of women.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Social
and political challenges<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Comprehensive
social policies have positive effects on people’s<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">lives
and livelihoods. Economic globalisation and privatisation<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">have
profoundly disrupted communities, families and cultures.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Women
are essential to sustaining the social fabric of societies<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">everywhere,
yet their basic needs are often ignored or denied,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and
their rights and persons violated.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Public
institutions have been undermined and weakened. Many<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">of their
responsibilities have been transferred to the private<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">sector,
particularly corporations, or to other national and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">international
institutions, which are rarely accountable to the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">people.
Furthermore, the power of political parties and trade<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">unions
has been severely curtailed, while conservative and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">fundamentalist
forces are on the rise. Participatory democracy<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">in
political organisations and civic structures should thrive.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">There
is an urgent need to foster and ensure transparency and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">accountability.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This Charter
calls on people of the world to:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand and support the development and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">implementation
of comprehensive social policies with full<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">participation
of people.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Ensure that all women and all men have equal rights to<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">work,
livelihoods, to freedom of expression, to political<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">participation,
to exercise religious choice, to education<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and to
freedom from violence.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Pressure governments to introduce and enforce legislation<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">to
protect and promote the physical, mental and spiritual<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">health
and human rights of marginalised groups.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand that education and health are placed at the top of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">the
political agenda. This calls for free and compulsory<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">quality
education for all children and adults, particularly<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">girl
children and women, and for quality early childhood<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">education
and care.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand that the activities of public institutions, such as<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">child
care services, food distribution systems, and housing<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">provisions,
benefit the health of individuals and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">communities.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Condemn and seek the reversal of any policies, which<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">result
in the forced displacement of people from their<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">lands,
homes or jobs.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Oppose fundamentalist forces that threaten the rights and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">liberties
of individuals, particularly the lives of women,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">children
and minorities.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Oppose sex tourism and the global traffic of women and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">children.
</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:white">7</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:white">º<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">٢<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Environmental
challenges:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Water
and air pollution, rapid climate change, ozone layer<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">depletion,
nuclear energy and waste, toxic chemicals and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">pesticides,
loss of biodiversity, deforestation and soil erosion<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">have
far</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">reaching effects on people’s health. The
root causes of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">this
destruction includes the unsustainable exploitation of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">natural
resources, the absence of a long</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">term
holistic vision, the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">spread
of individualistic and profit</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">maximising
behaviours, and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">over</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">consumption by the rich. This destruction must be<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">confronted
and reversed immediately and effectively.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This
Charter calls on people of the world to:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Hold transnational and national corporations, public<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">institutions
and the military accountable for their<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">destructive
and hazardous activities that impact on the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">environment
and people's health.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand that all development projects be evaluated<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">against
health and environmental criteria and that caution<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and
restraint be applied whenever technologies or policies<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">pose
potential threats to health and the environment (the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">precautionary
principle).<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand that governments rapidly commit themselves to<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">reductions
of greenhouse gases from their own territories<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">far
stricter than those set out in the international climate<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">change
agreement, without resorting to hazardous or<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">inappropriate
technologies and practices.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Oppose the shifting of hazardous industries and toxic and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">radioactive
waste to poorer countries and marginalised<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">communities
and encourage solutions that minimise<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">waste
production.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Reduce over</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">consumption
and non</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">sustainable
lifestyles </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">both
in the North and the South. Pressure wealthy<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">industrialised
countries to reduce their consumption and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">pollution
by 90 per cent.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand measures to ensure occupational health and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">safety,
including worker</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">centred
monitoring of working<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">conditions.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand measures to prevent accidents and injuries in the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">workplace,
the community and in homes.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Reject patents on life and oppose bio</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">piracy of traditional<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and
indigenous knowledge and resources.</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:white">8</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:white">º</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Develop people</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">centred,
community</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">based
indicators of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">environmental
and social progress, and to press for the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">development
and adoption of regular audits that measure<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">environmental
degradation and the health status of the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">population.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">War,
violence, conflict and natural disasters:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">War,
violence, conflict and natural disasters devastate<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">communities
and destroy human dignity. They have a severe<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">impact
on the physical and mental health of their members,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">especially
women and children. Increased arms procurement<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and an
aggressive and corrupt international arms trade<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">undermine
social, political and economic stability and the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">allocation
of resources to the social sector.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This
Charter calls on people of the world to:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Support campaigns and movements for peace and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">disarmament.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Support campaigns against aggression, and the research,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">production,
testing and use of weapons of mass<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">destruction
and other arms, including all types of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">landmines.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Support people's initiatives to achieve a just and lasting<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">peace,
especially in countries with experiences of civil war<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and
genocide.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Condemn the use of child soldiers, and the abuse and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">rape,
torture and killing of women and children.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand the end of occupation as one of the most<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">destructive
tools to human dignity.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Oppose the militarisation of humanitarian relief<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">interventions.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand the radical transformation of the UN Security<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Council
so that it functions democratically.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand that the United Nations and individual states end<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">all
kinds of sanctions used as an instrument of aggression<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">which
can damage the health of civilian populations.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Encourage independent, people</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">based
initiatives to<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">declare
neighbourhoods, communities and cities areas of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">peace
and zones free of weapons.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Support actions and campaigns for the prevention and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">reduction
of aggressive and violent behaviour, especially<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">in
men, and the fostering of peaceful coexistence.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Support actions and campaigns for the prevention of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">natural
disasters and the reduction of subsequent human<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">suffering.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">A
PEOPLE</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">CENTERED
HEALTH SECTOR<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This
Charter calls for the provision of universal and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">comprehensive
primary health care, irrespective of people’s<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">ability
to pay. Health services must be democratic and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">accountable
with sufficient resources to achieve this.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This
Charter calls on people of the world to:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Oppose international and national policies that privatise<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">health
care and turn it into a commodity.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand that governments promote, finance and provide<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">comprehensive
Primary Health Care as the most effective<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">way of
addressing health problems and organising public<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">health
services so as to ensure free and universal access.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Pressure governments to adopt, implement and enforce<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">national
health and drugs policies.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand that governments oppose the privatisation of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">public
health services and ensure effective regulation of<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">the
private medical sector, including charitable and NGO<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">medical
services.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand a radical transformation of the World Health<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Organization
(WHO) so that it responds to health<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">challenges
in a manner which benefits the poor, avoids<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">vertical
approaches, ensures intersectoral work, involves<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">people's
organisations in the World Health Assembly, and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">ensures
independence from corporate interests.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Promote, support and engage in actions that encourage<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">people’s
power and control in decision</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">making
in health at<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">all
levels, including patient and consumer rights.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Support, recognise and promote traditional and holistic<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">healing
systems and practitioners and their integration<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">into
Primary Health Care.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand changes in the training of health personnel so<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">that
they become more problem</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">oriented
and practice</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:white">10</span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:white">º<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">based,
understand better the impact of global issues in<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">their
communities, and are encouraged to work with and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">respect
the community and its diversities.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demystify medical and health technologies (including<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">medicines)
and demand that they be subordinated to the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">health
needs of the people.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand that research in health, including genetic<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">research
and the development of medicines and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">reproductive
technologies, is carried out in a participatory,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">needs</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">based manner by accountable institutions. It should<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">be
people</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐ </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and
public health</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">oriented,
respecting<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">universal
ethical principles.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Support people’s rights to reproductive and sexual self-determination<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">and
oppose all coercive measures in<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">population
and family planning policies. This support<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">includes
the right to the full range of safe and effective<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">methods
of fertility regulation.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">PEOPLE'S
PARTICIPATION FOR A HEALTHY WORLD<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Strong
people’s organisations and movements are fundamental<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">to
more democratic, transparent and accountable decision-making<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">processes.
It is essential that people’s civil, political,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">economic,
social and cultural rights are ensured. While<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">governments
have the primary responsibility for promoting a<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">more
equitable approach to health and human rights, a wide<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">range
of civil society groups and movements, and the media<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">have
an important role to play in ensuring people's power and<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">control
in policy development and in the monitoring of its<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">implementation.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This
Charter calls on people of the world to:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Build and strengthen people’s organisations to create a<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">basis
for analysis and action.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Promote, support and engage in actions that encourage<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">people’s
involvement in decision</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">making
in public services<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">at all
levels.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Demand that people’s organisations be represented in<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">local,
national and international fora that are relevant to<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">health.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">• </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Support local initiatives towards participatory democracy<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">through
the establishment of people</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:black">‐</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">centred
solidarity<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">networks
across the world.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"`\002248\002786\0000e1\0002db";color:white"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">AMENDMENT<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">After
the endorsement of the PCH on December 8, 2000, it was<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">called
to the attention of the drafting group that action points<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">number
1 and 2 under Economic Challenges could be<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">interpreted
as supporting the social clause proposed by the<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">WTO,
which actually serves to strengthen the WTO and its<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">neoliberal
agenda. Given that this countervails the PHA<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">demands
for change of the WTO and the global trading system,<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">the
two paragraphs were merged and amended.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The
section of War, Violence and Conflict has been amended to<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">include
natural disasters. A new action point, number 5 in this<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">version,
was added to demand the end of occupation.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Furthermore,
action point number 7, now number 8, was<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">amended
to read to end all kinds of sanctions. An additional<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">action point number 11 was added concerning natural disasters.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span><span></span></p>
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