@unuinweh.bsky.social has signed a "strategic partnership" with Nestlé. @ununiversity.bsky.social Due Diligence Policy should have prevented this. The irony: @unu-iigh.bsky.social has spent years warning against this kind of corporate capture of global health.
When UN Partners With the Harm It Is Meant to Prevent healthpolicy-watch.news/when-the-un-... @unnicycles.bsky.social Credibility of UN system depends on clear separation of its public mandate from commercial interests its work often contests. Once blurred, it becomes very difficult to draw again.
… also Humanitarian actors also need to be clear-eyed about the power they wield — over resources, over priorities, over the shape of care itself. Strengthening health systems does not only require funding and technical support. It requires the ceding of power. The ceding of space.
Israel Hayom has now modified the article, excluding my name and acknowledging an 'error in translation'.
Article is accessible via the May'25 Bulletin of the WHO: doi.org/10.2471/BLT.... @timorleste.bsky.social
@unu-iigh.bsky.social @unnicycles.bsky.social @ununiversity.bsky.social @who.int @aseantoday.bsky.social T-L can set an example for other small island developing states facing similar threats
🚨I was among the 60 that demanded the World Bank Board investigate IFC funded hospitals which are implicated in denying emergency care, detaining patients, and exploiting staff. This is the opposite of "development." #PeopleOverProfits #UHC #DoNoHarm - www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Following the publication of their editorial in the Bulletin of the @who.int, H.E. José Ramos-Horta, Dr. @unnicycles.bsky.social, and Dr. @rvandepas.bsky.social share insightful reflections on urgent actions for a more just and sustainable future in Timor-Leste.
📄 Read here: go.unu.edu/R2vKj
New article by Timor-Leste President H.E. José Ramos-Horta, @unnicycles.bsky.social and @rvandepas.bsky.social highlights five strategic priorities to address #climate and #health challenges in Timor-Leste.
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The United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) announced a "strategic partnership" with Nestlé to establish the World
In a new WHO publication, UNU-IIGH's Remco van de Pas (@rvandepas.bsky.social) contributed to the chapter “𝗘𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁,” which examines how profit-driven policies often exclude large segments of the population from economic participation.
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The United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) announced a "strategic partnership" with Nestlé to establish the World
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