The Global Health Council www.globalhealth.org is the world's largest membership alliance of public health organisations and professionals working to improve health and save lives among the poor. The Jonathan Mann Award was established by the Global Health Council in 1999 to honour Dr. Jonathan Mann and to highlight the vital link between health and human rights...

An appeal for organisations to endorse an international day of solidarity action for Binayak Sen on May 13, marking one year of his unjust imprisonment. We are a broad coalition of organisations and individuals based in different countries and hope to put up a massive collective effort aimed at the embassies as well as the press to exert pressure for his release. His trial begins on the 30th...

Nirmila Deshpande, a well known peace crusader of India, died on May 1, 2008, after a long period of illness. She was 79-years-old and left behind so many followers who like her, wanted peace. From her early years she was a Gandhian and an enlightened person whose only aim in life was to work for the cause of humanity...

Farmers under the banner of Bharatiya Krishak Samaj has decided to launch a 8-day long Kisan Yatra on April 26, 2008 in protest against the anti-farmer policies of the government and the deliberate move by the Haryana government to grab fertile farmland from farmers at a platter for setting up of SEZs. The Yatra will be flagged off from village Pelpa near Badli in Rohtak district in Haryana...

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