In preparation of People's Health Assembly II - part 5
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In addition to the initiatives aimed at the existing institu-
tional framework of the global economic system, the Movement
promotes a large number of more specific initiatives aimed at
the following:
a. greater and more equitable household food security;
b. some type of a Tobin tax that taxes runaway international fi-
nancial transfers;
c. unconditional support of the emancipation of women and the
respect of their full rights;
d. putting health higher in the development agenda of govern-
ments;
e. promoting the health (and other) rights of displaced and mi-
nority people;
f. halting the process of privatization of public health facili-
ties and working towards greater controls of the already in-
stalled private health sector;
g. more equitable, just and empowered people's participation in
health and development matters;
h. a greater focus on poverty alleviation in national and inter-
national development plans;
i. greater and unconditional access of the poor to health ser-
vices and treatment regardless of their ability to pay;
j. strengthening public institutions, political parties and
trade unions involved, as the Movement is, in the struggle of
the poor;
k. opposing restricted and dogmatic fundamentalist views of the
development process;
l. exerting greater vigilance and activism in matters of water
and air pollution, the dumping of toxics, waste disposal, cli-
mate changes and CO2 emissions, soil erosion and other attacks
on the environment;
m. militant opposition to the unsustainable exploitation of
natural resources and the destruction of forests;
n. protecting biodiversity and opposing biopiracy and the indis-
criminate use of genetically modified seeds;
o. holding violators of environmental crimes accountable;
p. systematically applying environmental assessments of develop-
ment projects and people-centered environmental audits;
q. opposing war and the current USA-led, blind 'anti-terrorist'
campaigns;
r. categorically opposing the Israeli invasion of Palestinian
towns (having, among other, a sizeable negative impact on the
health of the Palestinian people); the democratization of the UN
bodies and especially of the Security Council.
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