Last Update:  August 30, 2005  

People's Voices

Case Studies, Stories, People's experience,  Photo Gallery ... Voices of the Unheard    Testimonies from the People’s Health Assembly December 2000, Dhaka, Bangladesh   Click here to download thepdf version 115 kb

 

Introduction  
 

Health, Life and Well-Being: South, West, North and East

  Cost Recovery can be Fatal
    Mwajuma Saiddy Masaiganah, Tanzania

  The Story of Noemi by César Chérrez Bohórquez.
    Geovanni Atarihuana

  Alone and Frightened
    Sarah Burns, United Kingdom

  Lipi’s Story
    Bangladesh
 

Health Care and Health Services

  They Said We Weren’t Good Enough
    Alayna Watene, Aotearoa (New Zealand)

  Struggling against Caste Exclusion: Two Health Workers’ Stories
    Chinthamani and Abrurupam
  (translated by Hari John), India

  The Palauan Parable of Natural Birth: A Story of Knowledge and Generosity
    Robert Bishop, Democratic Republic of Palau, Oceania
 
Inequality, Poverty and Health
  Jawoyn
    Irene Fisher, Australia

  A Tale of Saleha
    Saleha Begum, Bangladesh 
 
Environment and Survival
  Petroleum and Health in Amazon
    Geovanni Atarihuana, Ecuador

  27 Years Defending Health and Ecology of Our Island
    Maria Ivania Cesar de Oliveira and Ani Wihbey, Brazil

  Continuing Struggle of Bhopal
    Sathyamala C., India

  Floods and Life
    Halima Begum, Bangladesh 
 
Health Implications of International Policies
  The Story of Joseph Kamombe and the Women’s Quilt
    Mary Sandasi, Zimbabwe

  Health Care Reform in Central America
    Hugo Icu, Guatemala

  Profits Before Rights
    Fatema Akhter, Bangladesh

  What Unemployment Means
    Kevin Lafferty, United Kingdom

  Living in Remote Rural Australia
    Marie Russell, Australia

Other Voices

Photo Gallery
Unheard Voices
Acid Violence
Safe Motherhood
Slum Dwellers
Children's Health
Arsenic
Sex Worker
Disability
A sunrise in life
Diary to Dhaka