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Leadership Speaker Series: Paul Farmer

questionboy89 — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:40:37 -0700

Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health and currently the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School, speaks to CPL about "Discernment and Audition: Learning to Listen to the Poor."

Paul Farmer

questionboy89 — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:26:50 -0700

Dr. Paul Farmer, director of Partners in Health and subject of Tracy Kidder's novel "Mountains Beyond Mountains," comes to Stanford and gives some advice for the college generation...

Health Disparities and Human Rights

questionboy89 — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:23:30 -0700

Dr. Alicia Fernandez explores health disparities and their affects on human rights. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [3/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 15579]

Human rights throughout the world

questionboy89 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:11:54 -0700

Human rights throughout the world
In Rwanda in 1994 an estimated one million Tutsi men, women and children were slaughtered at the hands of government soldiers. In response to this, the UN established the International Criminal Tribunal in neighbouring Tanzania to try the perpetrators of the killings - its creation was to be a signal that the world would not tolerate crimes of genocide. The tribunal holds individual war crime suspects responsible for their actions, rather than entire communities.

Youth For Human Rights= We're all equal before the law

questionboy89 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:48:30 -0700

Youth For Human Rights ad #3 - The Right to Life

Price of Silence

questionboy89 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:01:42 -0700

http://pth.amnestyusa.org/
A music video that brings together 16 of the worlds top musicians—some of whom have fled oppressive regimes—in a rousing musical plea to guarantee human rights for all.
The track, donated by Aterciopelados and arranged by fusion music guru Andres Levin, combines the voices of Hugh Masekela, Julieta Venegas, Stephen Marley, Angelique Kidjo, Yungchen Lhamo, Aterciopelados, Yerba Buena, Natacha Atlas, Rachid Taha, Kiran Ahluwalia, Chiwoniso and Emmanual Jal with those of U.S. artists Natalie Merchant, and Chali 2Na of Jurassic 5. Introduction by Laurence Fishburne.
AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD ON ITUNES
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZ...
Video produced by: Link TV: Television Without Borders for Amnesty International
Directed by: Joshua Atesh Litle
Music produced by: Andres Levin for Music Has No Enemies
Nacional Records
Photos courtesy of Magnum Photos

Malaria... an African viewpoint

questionboy89 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:15:39 -0700

Malaria is the poor cousin of many high-profile diseases and illnesses. It doesn't get the attention that say AIDS or cancer gets. Yet, silently and away from the affluent cities of the globe, malaria is killing so many lives. And destroying the productivity of people. Muyambi Ellady (32) of the Uganda Network on Toxic Free Malaria Control (UNETMAC) explains issues arising from his part of Eastern Africa, and the implications beyond.

Malaria Parasite Becoming Resistant to Most-Effective Medicine

questionboy89 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:26:04 -0700

Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the emergence of parasites, along the Thai-Cambodia border, that are resistant to the medicine artemisinin and could seriously undermine global malaria control. The recent shift from drugs that were failing to the highly effective artemisinin-based combination therapies allowed great progress in fighting malaria, one of the world's major killers.

Malaria Parasite Becoming Resistant to Most-Effective Medicine

questionboy89 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:23:34 -0700

UNICEF World Malaria Report

questionboy89 — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:14:50 -0700

Youtube.com video of UNICEF World Malaria Report: The following was provided in the video description:UNICEF and the World Health Organization have launched the first ever World Malaria Report. The initiative, introduced by UNICEF's Executive Director Ann M. Veneman, records the burden of malaria worldwide and follows the progress of countries in trying to control the disease. Credits: Producer:Sabine Dolan