First Announcement for PHA 2
Venue
Ecuador is located in the northwest part of Latin
America. It has a history of people’s struggles in the defence of health
and life. Ecuador is a country rich in natural and cultural resources with
populations that are world renown. Internally there is a huge contrast
between poverty and social inequality, on one hand, and the dominant
economic and political groups that are directly responsible for this
situation on the other. The awareness of the people about the situation
has generated important processes leading to unity and mobilization.
The Process
The Second People’s Health Assembly will be the
result of a process of local and national reflection, discussion and
debate, and of the exchange of experiences of communities and networks as
well as conferences and workshops about the aspects that influence the
health and well being of everyone.
At the same time there will be a joining together of campaigns and
mobilizations of organizations and groups of people from around the world.
Campaigns such as the Health Now, No to War and the OMC
Objectives of PHA 2
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To promote and extend the People´s Health Movement as
a space that allows for the revival of the spirit of Health for All
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To strengthen global action for the right to health as
a fundamental human right
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To enlarge the debate and the resistance to all
mechanisms that violate the right to health of the people, many
represented as neoliberal reforms, globalization or militarization.
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To share knowledge and practices of alternative models
of the promotion and provision of community health
The Concept of Health
“Health is a social, economic and political issue and
above all a fundamental human right. Inequality, poverty, exploitation,
violence and injustice are at the root of ill-health and the deaths of
poor and marginalised people. Health for all means that powerful interests
have to be challenged, that globalisation has to be opposed, and that
political and economic priorities have to be drastically changed.”
People´s Charter for Health
Vision
Equity, ecologically-sustainable development and peace
are at the heart of our vision of a better world - a world in which a
healthy life for all is a reality; a world that respects, appreciates and
celebrates all life and diversity; a world that enables the flowering of
people's talents and abilities to enrich each other; a world in which
people's voices guide the decisions that shape our lives.
There are more than enough resources to achieve this
vision.
Themes of PHA 2
The preliminary themes that have been identified for
the PHA II
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Health as a fundamental human right.
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Health care reforms and the right to health
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Health and Indigenous Peoples; Natural and Traditional
Medicine.
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HIV and AIDS
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Population Sectors and the demand for health: youth,
women, children, elderly.
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Military strategies: an affront to health.
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Free trade agreements. World Trade Organization and the
repercussions on the health of the people.
Activities during the
Assembly
Groups and organizations are encouraged to sign up for
the diverse activities of the PHAII. There will be conferences,
testimonies, panel discussion, poster sessions, artistic initiatives, and
marches. Following the Assembly there will be opportunities for exposure
trips to areas of Ecuador.
Tentative Calendar
Registration of events : Deadline March 31, 2005
Registration of participating organizations : Deadline
May 15, 2005
Individual Registration : Deadline May 31, 2005
Contact Details
National Front for the Health of the People
(Frente Nacional por la Salud de los Pueblos)
Avenida 12 de Abril (junto al Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso)
E-mail: asamblea05@yahoo.com
Telefax: + 593-7 2841-865
International People's Health Council (IPHC)
E-mail: info@iphcglobal.org
Telefax: 505-266-2225
Secretariat of PHA 2
E-mail: pha2@phmovement.org
