Physicians for Human Rights – Israel works with more than 3,000 volunteers to enforce the right to health for everyone in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories – regardless of their official resident status.

Health politics have become a crucial part of the global agenda. In 2015 UN-member states will take decisions affecting the lives of billions of people as they agree on a new framework to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The workshop focuses on two major features: To critically re-examine the Post-2015 debate and second to associate these reflections with the concepts of Global Health and of Global Governance for Health.

Health Activist Rene Loewenson talks about health literacy, Aid dependence in a globalized world and the importance of regional networks in the field of health

When national health-care systems fail, the effects can be global: epidemics spread across borders, with serious diseases breaking out again and again. Accordingly, health is a global public good – and providing good health care is an international responsibility.

El Salvador faces the challenge of reducing the country’s extreme social disparities. One of the most important changes is taking place in the healthcare system, which was previously characterized by privatization. Now ideas are coming to bear that...

The news reaching us from Greece is shattering: “Growing numbers of suicides due to the greatest economic crisis since 1929”, “Chronically ill lacking access to medicine”, “Doubling in the number of HIV infections”. They remind us of the link between...

Neoliberal policies in Europe are currently destroying any approaches to a comprehensive health care that people have been struggling for. More then 30% of the population in Greece is without any health insurance, drugs and dressing materials are...

**Project support** - Emergency aid for victims of state repression, Medical Commission for the Syrian Revolution (MCSR) - Support for local resistance committees, Adopt a Revolution, about:Change e.V. - Medical aid for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Bekaa Tal/Amel Association - Humanitarian aid for exiled Syrian families at the Palestinian Yarmouk Camp in Damascus, Nadja Now International e.V. - Humanitarian aid for Palestinian refugees from Syria at the Ein-el-Hilweh Camp in Lebanon, Nashet Association - Humanitarian aid for exiles in the Kurdish-Syrian city of Sere Kaniye, - Association of Syrian Kurdish Youth Abroad (ASKYA)

Interview with Padre Osvaldino, who helped organise protests against uranium mining in Caetité in Brazil.

medico's support to partners in emerging nations is a question of strategy. In Brazil, two new projects were added in 2012. Both are fighting – symbolically as well – for the significance of human and civil rights in prevailing growth models. By Katja Maurer