I would like to think that you often ask yourself – as I do – what all of us could do better to achieve greater justice, given that most of us work in or with countries with appalling social inequities. Allow me to share with you some of my thoughts on this. I see our role as helping put in place social processes and mechanisms that will drive sustainable human rights-based policies and practices in health and nutrition. These need to be part of how we help to instill a new will and commitment in decision-makers to change underlying preventable structural inequities in society. We can come to this from an ethical motivation, or else from a political motivation. Both stances drive us to become more involved in lessening inequities. They should both propose, not packages of universal solutions, but paths to follow to get things that need to be done done, specifiying by whom, with whom, and against whom. Living as we do in a mean, unfair and selfish world, I believe we need t...
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