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The Infant Food Industry as a Partner in Health
Published in Frank Falkner, Infant and Child Nutrition Worldwide:, 2021
Nestle was the outside U.S. corporation to be targeted. A boycott against its products was launched in July 1977. The lead group of the boycott was the Infant Formula Action Coalition (INFACT) which made the following demands of Nestle (Dobbing, 1988).
Tax the rich
Published in Suman Gupta, Richard Allen, Maitrayee Basu, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, Ayan-Yue Gupta, Milena Katsarska, Sebastian Schuller, John Seed, Peter H. Tu, Social Analysis and the COVID-19 Crisis, 2020
Suman Gupta, Richard Allen, Maitrayee Basu, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, Ayan-Yue Gupta, Milena Katsarska, Sebastian Schuller, John Seed, Peter H. Tu
The first crisis is that of the virus itself, of course, which appears in much the same way all over the world. Brazil had time to get prepared but failed to do so properly. Measures were taken on an ad hoc basis, always at the last minute. The incompetence of the public health setup derives from a neoliberal mindset that can’t conceive of the government taking a decisive leading role. One begins to glimpse the dramatic character of the Brazilian predicament when one realizes that sheer incompetence must be differentiated from the boycott of treatment and palliative measures.
Santo Domingo’s LGBT social movement: At the crossroads of HIV and LGBT activism
Published in Emily E. Vasquez, Amaya Perez-Brume, Richard G. Parker, Social Inequities and Contemporary Struggles for Collective Health in Latin America, 2020
In ‘La Urbanización de la Pobreza,’ Lozano et al. (1997) argue that in most Latin American societies, including the Dominican Republic, youth have higher levels of injustice consciousness, political militancy, and participation in community activism. Although linked to feminism and HIV prevention, the new cohorts were, nonetheless, part of networks working on a variety of issues and more sympathetic to confrontational strategies such as public kiss-ins, demonstrations, boycotts and ‘illegal’ gatherings (field work). They were also more willing to bring their LGBT identity to other social movements such as the youth and labour movement (field work). In fact, they had extensive electronic-based supportive networks which were located in what Bennett (2003) calls ‘polycentric (multi-hubbed) issue networks.’
Access to COVID-19 vaccines and testing in Africa: the importance of COVAX - Nigeria as a case study
Published in Pathogens and Global Health, 2023
Rafaella Fortini Queiroz Grenfell, Oyetunde Timothy Oyeyemi
All consenting adult population in major cities are being vaccinated. Although some private organizations are partnering with the Federal Government program to boost vaccines capacity for 1 million vulnerable Nigerians in underserved communities across the country [45]. The Federal Government is considering making COVID-19 vaccination compulsory for civil servants but this may never be implemented as there is currently no legislation that gives provision for such declaration. In Lagos State, the government has approved the sum of N6,000 ($14.61) for vaccination at private health facilities in the state. The justification for this development as stated by the Governor of the State was ‘to allow the private sector to recoup the resources they have deployed in the process of administering this vaccine’ [46]. This raises the concern of equity in vaccination administration as only people of high economic status may be able to pay that much for COVID-19 vaccination especially for a disease many perceive to pose little public health threat. This therefore could hamper the progress of vaccination campaign as it could result in outright boycott of COVID-19 vaccination among those with poor economic status.
Confidential review of maternal deaths in a South Indian state: current status and the way forward
Published in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2022
Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar, R. Sharon Annie Metilda
Case scenario 2: In 2017, a government doctors’ association announced a boycott of all the maternal death audit committee meetings as they had “virtually become a teasing, ragging and fault-finding meeting by administrators leading to a lot of stress among obstetricians and anaesthetists”.19 Gynaecologists said they were insulted even when deaths are not preventable. The association's press release further states that the government fails to post (appoint) an adequate number of specialists to maternity care centres. “Such discussions were never a part of the audit. Some centres with the post of seven doctors have just two. Doctors are made to do a 24-hour duty every alternative day. It is highly stressful mentally and physically to work like that”.
Relational Social Justice Ethics for Art Therapists
Published in Art Therapy, 2018
Beyond a values commitment, Opp (2009) contended that honoring human rights requires purposeful goal-directed activities that aspire to influence decision makers. Effective protest strategies arise from contextual factors and choices, as delineated in Tables 1 and 2 (Jasper, 2004; Maney, Kutz-Flamenbaum, Rohlinger, & Goodwin, 2012). Jasper (2011) additionally identified complementary moral emotions—pride versus shame, joy versus pity, anger versus fear, hope versus despair—to ascertain how “tension or contrast between them motivates action or demands attention” (p. 147). Such juxtapositions also account for how each contains constructive or damaging aspects. That is, anger might inspire or destroy; pride can affirm or exclude. For example, boycotts might be useful against corporations because they produce financial pressure to acquiesce to consumer demands. When the target is a membership association, however, a boycott equates to fewer voices present. Thus, protesters might have to weigh the value of this action for mitigating shame and reinforcing pride against the expense of further marginalizing much needed perspectives for influence and change.