Right to Health - Issue 02 (May/June 2017)

The Right to Health newsletter is our voice, bringing to you news and perspectives on the campaign and struggles around the world to realise health as a fundamental human right.

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IN THIS ISSUE

• Health for All: taking the campaign forward
• New WHO Director-General
• PSI launches the Right to Health at AFREC
• What is at stake at the 70th World Health Assembly?
• A tripartite step towards improving employment and working conditions in the health services
• Right to Health: "An enabler of other rights"
• PSI affiliates mark World Health Day 
• “A Voice to Lead”- International Nurses Day 2017
• Germany places health on G20 agenda

AFRICA & ARAB COUNTRIES

• Stop the Ebola outbreak NOW!
• Liberia health workers fight unexpected epidemic

ASIA AND PACIFIC

• PSI attends RCEP workshop in Bangalore, India
• Informalisation of work: a regional overview

EUROPE

• Mental Health Matters!
• PSI/ILO Regional meeting on the Right to Health in Tajikistan
  
• Let's talk about staffing
• Unions condemn IMF-Inspired healthcare reform in Ukraine

INTER-AMERICAS

• National Day of Protest in Argentina
• Government undermines public health for private interest in Brazil
• Health workers resist in Québec
• Quebec unions campaign for evidence-based policies
• Towards 100% public medication insurance in Quebec
• Quebec unions campaign against tax haven

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