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Check out the murderous rage on his face! Check out the hand that has bludgeoned many heads! Check out the strained forehead that explain his years committed to bloodshed! |
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Final Two Parts Of The Interview With SP Dantewada, Amresh Mishra on the 4th of Jan regarding the whereabouts of Sodi Sambo. |
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Operation Green Hunt to flush out the Maoist rebels from central India may have begun only last November, but the hapless tribals of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region have been at the receiving end of official hostility for years before that. |
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Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Professor of Political Science, Delhi University and I have just returned (January 1st) from a visit to the police state of Chhattisgarh. |
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Priyanka: I am a journalist and I need to speak to you about Sodi Sambo? Where is she now? Why was she illegal detained last night? |
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Interviews
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The Quality and Cost of Health Care: Some Notes on the Context" in Medico Friends Circle Bulletin No 316, April 2006, p. 14(by Binayak Sen) http://www.mfcindia.org/mfcpdfs/MFC316-317.pdf Some Notes on the Context This meeting marks a conjuncture that is personally very important for me. To have an MFC meeting in Vellore seems to me like a dream coming true, one that I dreamed along time ago, and I am particularly grateful to Anand, Sara and Ritu for making it happen. But at the same time both the national and indeed, the international context of our meeting, as well as the topic of our coming deliberations are such that they subject both these institutions to major scrutiny. |
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"Health and Human Rights," in _Mitanin Programme: Conceptual Issues and Operational Guidelines_. Raipur: State Health Resource Center, 2003, p. 29-30 http://shsrc.org/pdf/Mitanin%20Programme%20Conceptual%20Issues%20and%20Operational%20Guidelin.pdf |
Binayak Sen25 November, 2008 It is possible today to voice a proposal to take the idea of primary health care, stated in the bold language of the Alma Ata declaration 30 years ago, forward and work towards making it a reality. Health activist Dr. Binayak Sen writes from prison for a special issue in the Economic and Political Weekly on the 30th anniversary of the Alma Ata declaration which envisaged a promise of "Health for All" in 1978. Binayak Sen also writes, "Writing from jail, I did not have access to books and journals. This accounts for the disjointed state of some of the arguments. None of this is necessarily original or new. This article is based on earlier readings, as well as valued discussions with many friends and colleagues in Rupantar, Jan Swasthya Sahayog, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Shaheed Hospital, Medico Friend Circle, Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, and the National Alliance of People’s Movements. The usual disclaimers apply." Binayak Sen, a paediatrician, public health professional and national vice-president of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties, is the recipient of the tenth annual Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights.
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An appeal for peace in South Bastar Ilina Sen | Dr. Ilina Sen presents certain proposals made by Dr. Binayak Sen, medical practitioner and leading member of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Chhattisgarh. She has written this based on discussions with him during recent visits to the Raipur Jail where he is since May 14, 2007. |
http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/21/stories/2008102155340900.htm The present situation in South Bastar is characterised by an infinitude of chronic deprivation, along with a complete absence of political discourse. On the one hand we have the Salwa Judum, which the government dishonestly tries to characterise as a “people’s response to Maoism.” On the other hand, there is a purely military engagement between the state-based forces and the Maoists, which act as a proxy to a political discourse. Both parties to this enga gement deliberately ignore the fact that a purely military solution, imposed by either party, even if it were possible, would be neither valid nor sustainable. |
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"Myth of the Mitanin" in Medico Friends Circle Bulletin No 311, June 2005, pp. 12-17 http://www.mfcindia.org/mfcpdfs/MFC311.pdf Political Constraints on Structural Reforms in Health Care in Chhattisgarh Binayak Sen Since the middle of 2002, the newly formed state of Chhattisgarh has been the locus of a statewide programme of structural reforms in the Government health care system. This programme was designed to have had two broad components; one was the articulation and popularization of the right to health care through a process of selection, training, and activation of community based women health workers called mitanins. The other broad component was the implementation of a series of fundamental changes in the health care infrastructure of the state. Despite promising achievements in the area of infrastructure development, due to structural problems in the way in which the entire programme has been implemented, the political core of the programme remains unrealized. This major programme illustrates the structural constraints contingent upon state based interventions in health care in the absence of major political initiatives. |
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