1st Edition

Health, Human Rights and the United Nations Inconsistent Aims and Inherent Contradictions?

By Theodore Macdonald, Diane Plamping Copyright 2008
208 Pages
by CRC Press

208 Pages
by CRC Press

'In the light of impending environmental catastrophe, people all over the world, in all walks of life, are becoming more aware of the pressing need to act globally. The need to base our decisions and actions less on parochial national advantage, sequestered in hate and suspicion of other nation's playing the same game of Russian roulette, have to give way to a new appreciation of the fact that our... Read more
Our partially paralysed United Nations. The UN and human rights. The Darfur crisis. The well-hidden regime of Myanmar. Human rights in the context of conflict. The Palestinians. Human rights violations in Great Britain. WHO mediates the global right to health? Can the UN promote WHO's objectives? Transnational advocacy and mediation.

Biography

Theodore Macdonald, Diane Plamping