VACCINE FOR EVERYONE? STRUCTURAL INEQUALITIES IN LATIN AMERICA
Vacuna ¿Para todas las personas? Desigualdades estructurales en Latinoamérica Autor: Matías Mora Traducido al inglés por Gilma Cristina Sánchez Cossio El 31 de Diciembre del año 2020 (Organización Mundial de la Salud, 2020) salió la noticia acerca del descubrimiento de la Vacuna contra el virus de Covid-19 de parte de algunas compañías farmacéuticas hablando acerca […]
Apps del Ciclo Menstrual y el Derecho a la Privacidad
Apps del Ciclo Menstrual y el Derecho a la Privacidad ¿Qué sabes sobre el uso que dan las Apps del ciclo menstrual a tus datos? En este podcast, desarrollamos un enfoque desde la perspectiva del Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos entorno con la recolección y uso de datos personales en las Apps, específicamente las […]
Selection of Poems from the ‘The Unfold Pinnacle’ – Part II
Selection of Poems from the ‘The Unfold Pinnacle’ – Part II Author: Basanta Kumar Kar Too Late This is the story about a seventeen years old malnourished tribal woman and a mother of a malnourished girl child from Tumrikasa, Manpur, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India. Rajnandgaon, a district that host many political heavyweights is dominated by the […]
Approximación de Casos de Seguridad en cuestiones de salud ocupacional en Uganda
Analysis of the Safety Case Regulatory Approach in Safeguarding Health and Safety Standards in Oil and Gas Sector in Uganda Author: Peter Reat Gatkuoth Introduction According to Lassourd, T. in his working-paper, “Fiscal Rule Options for Petroleum Revenue Management in Uganda’’ Strategies have been set in order to prepare the country for commercial production of […]
Oil, Aids and Africa
This unprecedented oil rush dwarfs the Western aid, Africa currently relies on and provides a unique opportunity to turn the continent around.
However the fear, of many of those who work in promoting sustainable development in Africa, is that this oil bonanza will never benefit the vast majority of Africans, who live in the worst poverty, and will plunge the continent further into chaos
SARS and the High Moral Ground
The hysteria surrounding SARS has abated, but has it left a legacy by recasting infectious disease as a more central security concern?
“Slim”: HIV/AIDS in Uganda
HIV/AIDS was first discovered in Uganda in a small fishing village on Lake Victoria in 1982. Patients lost so much weight that the mystified villagers called the disease simply “slim.” By 1999, there were 1,438,000 Ugandans infected with the disease. Along with taking a heavy toll in human life, the disease has ravaged the country’s economy and infrastructure, and essentially become serious threat to human security in general.