Tunes4Change: A full-house for Health Poverty Action’s first ever multi-faith live concert evening
02/12/11 by c.mansoor
The culmination of UK National Interfaith Week on November 27th saw over 300 hundred people from across different faiths, cultures and backgrounds come together at the London Interfaith Centre for Tunes4Change – a live music night put on by Faiths ... Read more
Generation Y – Sick of Poverty and Bad Health
18/11/11 by Corinna Heineke
Booking your next holiday to Ethiopia? You’re bound to receive countless offers to travel to the ethnically diverse south west of the country. You’re told that you will not only take in the beauty of the Rift Valley, but will ... Read more
From the community, for the community: Traditional Birth Attendants
by Health Poverty Action
The UN estimates that there is currently a gap of 3.5 million health workers in low-income countries. Skilled health workers are desperately needed there. However, skilled and fully trained workers require extensive training and support as well as functioning health ... Read more
A message from our Tony Blair Faiths Act Fellow
25/10/11 by c.mansoor
Last week marked the United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty which has been observed on October 17th each year since 1993. It promotes people’s awareness of the need to eradicate poverty and hardship worldwide, particularly in developing ... Read more
Healthy and unhealthy lives – socially determined
24/10/11 by Corinna Heineke
I am a woman with two university degrees who went to a private though free school. My family did not receive means-tested benefits. Had I grown up where I live now, in the Borough of Southwark, London, my privileged start ... Read more
Blog Action Day 2011: Food for Health
16/10/11 by Health Poverty Action
Article 25(1) of the Declaration of Human Rights 1948 states that, “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and wellbeing of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care”. So ... Read more
Harmful labelling practices?
23/07/11 by Thomas Hart
Harmful Labelling Practices For some years, the concept of “harmful traditional (or cultural) practices” has been well-known to human rights and development workers. The term is used to describe such gross violations of rights, often of women’s and children’s rights, ... Read more
The Philip-Morrising of Healthcare
03/07/11 by Corinna Heineke
Why companies should not be allowed to sue our governments No civilised society should allow a commercial enterprise to dictate any aspect of health policy. Yet in Australia, there is the danger that that is happening, with the news that ... Read more
UPDATE: Free Dr Binayak Sen
20/04/11 by Martin Drewry
I posted this a short while ago. Check out the update below…. Change usually comes about as a result of some kind of movement – people and organisations working together and campaigning to bring it about. An important principle in ... Read more
Reproductive rights in Sierra Leone
22/03/11 by Helen Stack
The remote region of Northern Bombali where we work has the lowest awareness and uptake of contraception in Sierra Leone. A third of women do not know one single method of contraception and modern contraceptive use is estimated at just ... Read more
