1. The Causes of Hunger and Malnutrition: Macro and Micro Determinants
Macro and micro causes of malnutrition
Diagnosing the causes of hunger and malnutrition
A critical look at nutrition planning
2. Technical, Ethical and Ideological Responsibilities in Nutrition
Science: Its political, ideological and ethical implications
The scientist as a promoter of status quo or social change
Economic power, political power and poverty
Where do liberal food and nutrition workers stand?
A critical look at our profession and ourselves
3. De-Westernizing Health Planning and Health Care Delivery: A Political Perspective
Understanding the roots of the problem: Western medicine and its hierarchy
Steps towards de-westernization
5. Viewpoint - Ethics, Ideology and Nutrition
6. Ethics And Ideology in the Battle Against Malnutrition
Liberals and radicals - a typology
Are we afraid of speaking-up in political terms?
Nutritionists in the third world
A new direction? - Some possible conclusions
7. The Challenge of Feeding the People: Chile under Allende and Tanzania under Nyerere
The challenge of feeding the people: How it has been addressed
Nutrition intervention in Chile and Tanzania: Two perspectives of a shared commitment
Tanzania and Chile: A review in perspective
The role of health and nutrition in development
Capacity of the current system to alleviate hunger and malnutrition.
9. Multidisciplinarity, Paradigms and Ideology in Development Work
An attempt to define the concepts
The role of conceptual frameworks
The social and the classical sciences in development work
Science and its environment - The real world around us
Does a universality and pluralism of theories exist that makes multidisciplinary work realistic?
Crisis - The battle of the paradigms
The dilemmas in choosing a new paradigm
Tackling the basic causes of maldevelopment
The limits of traditional development project evaluation
“We should” - Our inherent obligations and the challenges ahead
10. Survey on Attitudes to Nutrition Planning
11. “Household Purchasing-Power Deficit” - A More Operational Indicator to Express Malnutrition
Uses and potential abuses of the proposed indicator
Food consumption subsidies - Rationing system
Evidence of the exploitation: A preamble and five exhibits
Sources, uses, and sectoral distribution of foreign aid: A preamble and four exhibits
Putting it all together: A final balance sheet
13. Low School Performance: Malnutrition or Cultural Deprivation?
14. Hunger and Malnutrition: Outlook for Changes in the Third World
15. Viewpoint: Nutrition Planning - What Relevance to Hunger?
17. The Political Economy of Ill Health and Malnutrition
The situation: The macro and micro levels.
The actors : institutions, social groups and individuals
18. Commentary - The Markets of Hunger: Questioning Food Aid (Non-Emergency/Long-Term)
The politics of food aid: in the donor countries - in the recipient countries
19. Activism to Face World Hunger: Exploring New Needed Commitments
The problem(s) of hunger and its (their) solutions
Organizing ourselves and others
Keeping our eyes open and constantly learning more about the issues at stake
20. The Child Survival Revolution: A Critique - or Health Still Only for Some by the Year 2000?
Do people really have choices?
A critical look at GOBI and the Child Survival Revolution
Part One: Development and today's reality
Section I. Western development: Past and present
1.1. A critique of outdated development theories and praxis
1.2. Third World development as seen by the North
1.3. The oversold technological approach in Western development
Section II. Myth and reality in development ideology, paradigms and models
2.1. Ideology and development models
2.2. Paradigms and new theories
2.3. The irrelevance of current development studies
Part Two: The actors and the future of development - The era of empowerment
Section III : The actors in today's development drama (Or rather farce?)
Section IV: The non-actors in today's development
Section V: Development: The future
22. Looking Beyond the Doable: Resolutions for a New Development Decade
23. Egos/ Alter Egos of the Main Actors in Development Projects
...Anyone wants to add a profile for the NGO worker...? P.S.
24. Positive Deviance in Child Nutrition: a Discussion
Positive deviance in context. Positive Deviance: The difference between coping and adapting
Gaining weight by behaving in a positively deviant manner
What is behind positive deviant attitudes?
25. The Project Approach in Development Assistance
26. Triage Management in Third World Health Ministries
27. On Behalf of the African Child: Challenges and Windows of Opportunity for the Donor Community.
PANEL No. 1: The empowerment factor
PANEL No. 3 : Breaking out of the poverty cycle
PANEL No. 4 : An enhanced role for the caring of children
PANEL No. 5 : The right to know
PANEL No. 6 : The population/PHC/nutrition link
PANEL No. 7 : Never be sorry to be too late
PANEL No. 8 : Pressures imposed to address the economy: Do the people matter?
PANEL No. 9 : Other factors to reckon with in the 90s
28. The Household Entitlements Revolution or a Women-Centered Approach to Family Security
29. Brave New World: A Political Pendulum in Search of its Balance
30. Malnutrition and Income: Are We Being Misled? (A Dissenting View with a Confusing Literature)
The issue of malnutrition and income as presented in the literature
The thesis: (A counter-argument)
31. A Path for the 1990s?: Government-Donor Partnership to Finance PHC in the Third World
32. Downsizing the Civil Service in Developing Countries: The Golden Handshake Option Revisited.
Introduction: Setting the empirical and conceptual scene
How to downsize?: To set preconditions or not to set
What to do with the wages saved from downsizing?
The golden handshake: A grant or a loan to departing civil servants?
To give incentives or to dismiss
How to redeploy public servants to the private sector?
Do international conferences solve world problems?
Do international declarations change the course of history?
Do international conferences overlap in their purposes?
Do international conferences bring out the best in the process of their preparation?
35. Some Reflections on ACC/SCN's 'How Nutrition Improves'
36. Nutritional Goals for the Mid-Nineties: A Call for Advocacy and Action
A development paradigm in need of replacement
Windows of opportunity to take advantage of: (Normative aspects)
The three pillars of an emerging sustainable development paradigm
Getting from the old to the new paradigm: The time for consolidating a transition is now!
The primarily ethics-led process to sustainable development
The primarily politically-led process to sustainable development
40. Development in the Mid 1990s: Reflections of an Old Socialist
42. Equity In Health and Nutrition and the Globalization of the World's Economy
43. B. Micronutrient Deficiencies and Protein-Energy Malnutrition
The foreign aid scenario under a technical fix approach
45. Actions and Activism in Fostering Genuine Grassroots Participation in Health and Nutrition
46. Health, Nutrition and Sustainable Development.
The need for a more critical and visionary attitude
48. Health Sector Reform Measures: Are they Working?... And where do we go from here?
50. So What... in Search of the 'Big Picture' in Development (Food for a depressive thought)
Poverty, equity and social justice
Equity, structural adjustment and safety nets for the poor
Who are the poor and how do we find them?
Equity and the public/private allocation of resources
Avenues and dead-end streets to equity
52. Globalization, or the Fable of the Mongoose and the Snake (Fableous food for thought)
Globalization and its negative consequences
A dearth of workable solutions?
53. Elements for a Nutrition Activism Course and Curriculum
55. A Letter to the Student Erica who is Planning to Specialize in International Nutrition
60. Food for Planning the Right Human Thoughts - Human Rights Based Planning: The New Approach
61. Food for an Ombudsman's Thought - On Health Sector Reform, Health and Poverty and Other Herbs
62. What does the New UN Human Rights Approach Bring to the Struggle of the Poor?
We live in a new age of rights
The Human Rights approach: Some Iron Laws
The participation factor in Human Rights
The use of indicators in Human Rights work
The World Bank, or a position full of contradictions on how to look at the Human Rights approach
Human Rights from the United Nations’ and the NGOs’ perspective
65. Human Rights or the Importance of Being Earnest: A Personal Account
66. AID and Reform in Africa: Lessons from Ten Case Studies, Final Report
68. Thinking Loud - On Statistics
69. Health and Human Rights Readers
2. Human Rights or the Importance of Being Earnest: A Personal Account
3. The Sixteen Groups of Human Rights
4. Human Rights Based Planning: The New Approach
5. What Does the New UN Human Rights Approach bring to the Struggle of the Poor? - I
6. What Does the New UN Human Rights Approach bring to the Struggle of the Poor? - II
7. What Does the New UN Human Rights Approach bring to the Struggle of the Poor? - III
8. What Does the New UN Human Rights Approach bring to the Struggle of the Poor? - IV
13. On the Role of the State, the UN and Civil Society
14. Health, Human Rights and Donors
15. Arguments in Favor of an Empowering Community Capacity Building in Health
17. Elements for a Human Rights Activists Course and Curriculum
18. Some Pearls of Wisdom about Health Care Financing
19. Health Sector Reform and the Unmet Needs of the Poor: A Critique
20. On Development, the Real World, Power Games and the Ugly Faces of Greed
21. On Morality, Freedom, Choices, Justice and the Need for People’s Power
22. Variations on a Theme by the Chilean Writer Isabel Allende
26. Caveat Emptor: A Participatory Approach is not a Human Rights Approach!
27. Development And Rights: The Undeniable Nexus
28. On the Role of the State, the UN and Civil Society
29. On Vulnerability, Access and Discrimination
31. Human Rights and South-South Cooperation
32. A Call for Substance and Networking
33. Human Rights are Very Much on the Agenda of Development Work
34. Rights are Guaranteed Entitlements: Right?
35. ‘Charity is Obscene from a Human Rights Perspective’
36. Perspectives on Human Rights: Furthering the Debate
37. Putting Equity and Human Rights in Health on the Agenda: The Role of NGOs - I
38. Putting Equity and Human Rights in Health on the Agenda: The Role of NGOs - II
39. Social Exclusion and Human Rights
40. Beyond Capacity Analysis: Additional Elements of a Human Rights-Based Development Strategy - I
41. Beyond Capacity Analysis: Additional Elements of a Human Rights-Based Development Strategy - II
42. On Capacity Building Needs: The Macro Issues in Human Rights
44. An Introduction to Children’s Rights
45. Globalization, Health Rights and Health Sector Reform: Implication for Future Health Policy
46. Stepping into the New Age of the Right to Adequate Nutrition: Snail Pace Progress? - I
47. Stepping into the New Age of the Right to Adequate Nutrition: Snail Pace Progress? - II
48. A Case of Logic - The Human Rights Advocacy Syllogism
50. NGOs should not be Human Rights Blind and should be Judged by their Politics
51. The Need to Struggle is Actually a Built-In Principle of Human Rights Work
52. The Law is the Law...and Human Rights are not yet the Law
53. Human Rights are Universal, but the Risk of Having One’s Rights Violated Is Not
54. Some Well Known and Some Less Well Known Aspects of Human Rights Work
55. Human Rights Violations are Part of a Social Disease with Historical Roots. (Part 1 of 16)
57. We Have to Learn to Look at Totalities, Rather Than at Fragments of Reality. (Part 3 of 16)
58. It is through Ideology that Society Ultimately Explains Itself. (Part 4 of 16)
59. Social and Economic Injustice are not an Accident. (Part 5 of 16)
62. The Political Imperative in Human Rights Work. (Part 8 of 16)
63. Many Among us Think that Politics is Dirty or not a Virtuous Activity. (Part 9 of 16)
66. A Dead-End Option (Part 12 of 16)
67. Why are We so often Conciliatory when We should be Confrontational? (Part 13 of 16)
68. Some Aspects of the Politics of Women’s Rights and the Politics of Empowerment. (Part 14 of 16)
69. A Basis to Develop a New Vision for the Future. (Part 15 of 16)
70. A Basis to Develop a New Praxis for the Future (Part 16 of 16)
75. More on Human Rights Workers as Activists
76. Why Power only Yields to Counter-Power
78. We Have Declared War on Poverty and Poverty has Won. (President Lyndon Johnson, 1964)
79. Human Rights and the "Weapons of Mass Deception"
80. Asserting and Affirming Human Rights is as Conflict-Prone as it is Indispensable
81. On NGOs and the Rights of Winners and Losers
82. Trade, Governance and Human Rights
83. Human Rights and the Growing ‘GAP’
84. Development = Substantial and Steady Advancement in the Realization of all Rights
85. Activism, Profession, Compassion and Political Solidarity
90. Human Rights Principles: What They Mean in Practice
91. The Human Rights Discourse in Health. (Part 1 of 2)
92. The Human Rights Discourse in Health. (Part 2 of 2)
94. A Characterization of the Current Stage of Human Rights Work
95. Two non-actors in Human Rights
96. On the Human Rights discourse and ‘what one-is and is-not’
102. More on Poverty and Human Rights
104. How aggressively should governments be put under pressure in the struggle for Human Rights?
105. Is there such a thing as a fair and human-rights-sensitive (Capitalist) Globalization?
109. Glossary of Human Rights Terms
112. The Human Rights Discourse in Health (19 key statements)
115. It will be via Poverty Alleviation Programs that Human Rights will be Fulfilled
116. Poverty does not persist solely because of incompetent, corrupt governments insensitive to the fate of their populations! No, it is at once the cause and the effect of the total or partial denial of human rights
120. On foreign aid, corruption, democracy and development: implications for human rights
121. Human rights in the era of neoliberal global restructuring
122. A rights-based approach to the MDGS
123. People have rights even without any specific legislation saying so
124. Human rights and the World Trade Organization
125. Being a human rights activist is not an illusion one should lose at age 40
129. The rights-based approach fundamentally changes the nature of state-society relations
130. How we, HR activists, are duped: just a few examples
131. Some questions with human rights implications that are seldom asked
70. Aiming at the Target: What’s Left for the Devil to Advocate?
On accusations of dependency and top-down implementation
Donors (and we ourselves) touch some projects more than others
The poverty alleviation connection
71. ‘Elemental Watson’: The Health Sector Reform’s faulty logic
72. Putting Equity and Human Rights in Health on the Agenda: The Role of NGOS
The concept of Human Rights in health and why it is used
Experiences from some NGOs already using the Equity/Human Rights approach
74. Some Pearls of Wisdom about Health care Financing
75. Beyond Capacity Analysis: Additional Elements of a Human Rights-based Development Strategy
76. Stepping into the New Age of the Right to Adequate Nutrition: Snail Pace Progress?
The Challenge: what now has to change
The Right to adequate Nutrition
77. Poverty Reduction and National Budgets
79. Optional Health Care Financing Mechanisms for third World Countries: What is Viable?
III. Fee for service-financed health care
IV. Medicines: How much of a culprit?
V. A basket of potential solutions?
VI. ‘Righting the wrong’ in the obsolete geographic allocation of funding for health
VII. And the winner is...Community-based health insurance (CBHI)
80. The Peoples Health Movement: A People’s Campaign for Health for All - Now!
The first People’s Health Assembly
The People’s Charter for Health
Significant Gains made by the People’s Health Movement
81. Towards the Millennium Development Goals: Yes, but...
82. Book Review: Dignity Counts: A Guide to Using Budget Analysis to Advance Human Rights
83. The Human Rights Discourse in Health
A. Meaning of the human rights discourse in health
B. How to strengthen the HR-based approach in our work in health
84. Food and Nutrition 2005: The Human Rights Perspective
85. A True Jewel in the Annals of Social Medicine: Young Allende’s eEarly Legacy
Objectives for a national action plan
Specific actions under the Action Plan