Trade Unions Are Under Attack In Turkey!

The executive officers of Tüm Bel-Sen (Union of All Municipality Civil Servants) and Egitim-Sen (Education and Science Workers’ Union) in Izmir, Turkey are being held in custody for the last 6 days. Tüm Bel-Sen (Union of All Municipality Civil Servants) and Egitim-Sen (Education and Science Workers’ Union) are two unions that are members of KESK (Confederation of Public Employees Trade Unions in Turkey).

This is the first and one of the largest confederation of civil servants’ unions and represents the rights of public workers and teachers.

The ruling party AKP (Justice and Development Party), through its use of the State of Emergency (famously abbreviated as “OHAL” in Turkish) has been working on eliminating and purging all opposition institutions and movements for the last two years in Turkey.

The government is increasing its pressure on the unions as well. We request that you help us bring these illegal actions to the attention of the international public and support the struggle of unions against the institutionalization of a one-man regime in Turkey.

We are doing a twitter campaign on Thursday, March 22, 2018 with the hashtag #TurkeyFreeTradeUnionists at the following times:

22:03 pm Turkish time

19:03 pm British time

18:03 pm Germany time

13:03 USA Eastern time

Unionization is a right!

Free Çağdaş Yazıcı, the President of Tüm Bel-Sen Chamber 1, İzmir

Free Recep Temel, Executive Secretary of Tüm Bel-Sen Chamber 1, İzmir

Free İdil Uğurlu, The Women Secretary of Eğitim Sen Chamber 6, İzmir

Free Abdülkerim Akdeniz, member of Egitim-Sen #Turkey

FreeTradeUnionists Tüm Bel-Sen Chamber 1, İzmir

XV CONGRESO De Medicina Social y Salud Colectiva

Compañer@s Alameñ@s desde la ciudad de La Paz a 3600 metros sobre el nivel de avances y contradicciones en el proceso de cambio, el Estado Plurionacional de Bolivia, tendrá el Honor de acogerlos en el XV CONGRESO DE Medicina Social y Salud Colectiva “Saber y poder popular en la conquista del derecho a la salud y a la vida: La Transformación social para vivir Bien”.

Este magno evento se realizará del 22 al 27 de Octubre de 2018 (La Paz, Bolivia) y pretende ser un encuentro de confraternidad y mucha producción intelectual, científica y política.

Los dias 22 y 23 (lunes y martes)tendremos una serie de importantes eventos pre-congreso y desde el 24, abordaremos un Eje Temático por día.

Una de las principales características que pretende tener el XV Congreso de Medicina Social y Salud Colectiva es el protagonismo de los movimientos y las organizaciones sociales de base. Instamos vehementemente a las organizaciones nacionales y locales de ALAMES a fomentar su activa participación!

Primer Eje: Organizaciones y movimientos sociales como poder en salud.

•    Organizaciones y movimientos sociales en el desarrollo del poder en salud.
•    Descolonización e Interculturalidad en salud.
•    Diálogos y (des)equilibrios entre géneros.
•    Diálogos y (des)equilibrios entre sabares y medicinas populares, ancestrales y acádemicas

Segundo Eje: El ejercicio del derecho a la salud y la construcción de los Sistemas Universales de Salud.
•    La construcción/destrucción de Sistemas Universales de Salud. 
•    Avances y retrocesos de los gobiernos progresistas en Latinoamérica. 
•    Las estructuras de poder y las determinantes sociales, políticas y ecnómicas de la salud.

Tercer Eje: Explotación y acumulación capitalista
•    Salud de la madre tierra, extrativismo y cambio clilmático.
•    Agrotóxicos y transgénicos.
•    Violencia y patriarcado.
•    La salud de los trabajadores.

Prof Onur Hamzaoglu arrested by turkish police

Prof Onur Hamzaoglu was arrested a few hours ago after a raid of the police in his house in Istanbul.

Prof Onur Hamzaoglu is an internationally known scientific researcher and practitioner, recently reelected in the Executive Board of the International Association of Health Policy in Europe in its 18th International Conference held end September 2017.

Prof Onur Hamzaoglu is envisaging and promoting with his example the duty of the academics and health professionals to develop their scientific activities aiming to serve the health of the population. He is famous internationally for his scientifically sound research on the implications on the health of the population of environmental deterioration in a local area. It is this activity that offered him enemies in the business circle and the repressive authorities of his country.

IAHPE Executive Board is strongly condemning the arrest of Prof Onur Hamzaoglu and is requesting his immediate release free of what ever charges. His independent scientific activity and his clear position in defending the health and the well being of his fellow citizens needs to be honoured instead of being jailed!

We call the international academic community to strongly react against this attrocity of the turkish authorities. Ya basta!!!

Unprecedented oppression against Turkish Medical Association and civil liberties

The International Association of Public Health in Europe is expressing its anger over the oppression expressed against the Turkish Medical Association and the arrest of its leadership accused to be terrorists because they just fulfilled their duties.

The International Association of Public Health in Europe, as an association of scientists committed to public health, is considering as a main and fundamental duty of any health professional to raise public awareness regarding  the damages that are threatening public health during an war expedition. The negative impacts of the war to the populations’ health are, unfortunately, very well documented and no questionable. Peace is considered by the World Health Organisation as a fundamental prerequisite for health protection and promotion.

We are therefore strongly condemning the unprecedented repression of the turkish authorities against the obvious right and duty of the Turkish Medical Association to protect the health of the turkish people.

We call on the Turkish authorities to release immediately the detained physicians, to stop any legal prosecution against them and to call off the intimidation and threatening campaign  against them.

Call for Solidarity Actions for Academics for Peace from Turkey (en|fr|de|tk)

Call for Solidarity Actions for Academics for Peace from Turkey
The first court hearings start on December 5, 2017, at 9:00 pm in İstanbul Çağlayan Justice Palace

As the signatories to the Peace Petition of January 11, 2016, we have gone through many various types of repression since we shared our claim to peace with the public by the declaration titled “We Will Not Be A Party To This Crime.” We have also experienced a variety of solidarity practices. Since January 2016, more than 500 of our colleagues were separated from their universities and from their students through dismissal from public service, firing, and forced retirement. Four of our colleagues were detained for weeks.

Today we are on the edge of a new phase. The signatories to the January 11 Peace Petition, publicly known as the Academics for Peace Petition, are being sued on an individual basis on the accusation of “propagandizing for terror” (See Turkish AntiTerror Law, Article 7/2). The public prosecutor proposes imprisonment extending to 7.5 years.

First the signatory academics from İstanbul University and Galatasaray University were sued at the Criminal Court. They were followed by the signatory academics from Marmara University, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul Technical University, Özyeğin University and Kemerburgaz University. It is not clear who will be added to this chain.

The cases are opened with the same ‘copy and paste’ bill of indictment, but on an individual basis. The cases are distributed to different Criminal Courts, on different dates and in 10-minute intervals so as to preempt the sued academics from standing together.

As of November 15, 2017, only one tenth of the signatory academics have been sued. The cases are organized so as to extend from December 2017 to April 2018.

In due process, the support extended from members of universities and institutions in the country and abroad has been of the utmost importance to us. In this new turn of events, where we are well aware that it is not the individual academics who are being sued, but the claim to peace and the voice of the free science that put forth this claim that are on trial, we need your support more than ever.

We hope to continue forming solidarity through close cooperation.

We call you to stand by us in the courts starting from December 5, 2017 by sending monitoring teams, by observers, generating news, and through transparency and dissemination of information.

As citizens of this country we will continue in our claim to peace and life and to stand against all kinds of rights violations and injustices.

We will continue to do so in ever growing solidarity.

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Appel à la Solidarité avec les universitaires pour la Paix en Turquie.
Les premières audiences ont lieu le 5 décembre 2017 à 9h00 au Palais de Justice de Çağlayan (Istanbul)

Nous, les signataires de la Pétition pour la paix, avons à la fois subi des pressions de toute sorte et bénéficié de nombreuses formes de solidarité depuis le jour où nous avons déclaré que “nous ne serons pas complices de ce crime!” A ce jour, ce sont plus de 500 parmi nous qui ont été séparé-e-s de leurs institutions, de leurs étudiant-e-s, suite à des limogeages par des décret-loi, des licenciements, des démissions ou des départs forcés à la retraite. Quatre de nos camarades ont passé des semaines
en prison.

Nous sommes au seuil d’une nouvelle phase. Les signataires de la Pétition pour la paix du 11 janvier 2016 sont traduits devant la justice dans des procès individuels avec le même chef d’accusation, faire la propagande de la terreur (l’article 7/2 du code pénal turc), et encourent des peines allant jusqu’à 7,5 ans d’emprisonnement. Une première vague de procès individuels contre nos camarades des Universités d’İstanbul et de Galatasaray a été suivie de convocations ciblant certains collègues des Universités Marmara, Yıldız Teknik, İstanbul Teknik, Özyeğin et Kemerburgaz. Rien ne
dit quelle sera la prochaine étape.

Les procès, tous séparés, sont néanmoins ouverts avec le même acte d’accusation préparé suivant la méthode du copié-collé. Les audiences sont éparpillées entre plusieurs cours pénales, avec dix minutes de séparation de façon à empêcher les signataires de se rejoindre. Les convocations ne concernent pour le moment que dix pour cent des signataires, mais les audiences s’étalent déjà sur la période du décembre 2017 en avril 2018!

Le soutien de membres sensibles des universités et autres institutions, tant en Turquie qu’à l’étranger, a été important pour nous. Ce soutien est encore davantage nécessaire dans cette nouvelle phase où nous savons parfaitement bien que ce ne soit pas nous en tant qu’individus, mais notre demande de paix et de liberté d’expression de la science qui est jugée.

Nous espérons continuer cette solide coopération, et souhaitons la présence d’observateurs assurant la transparence des informations diffusées lors du marathon judiciaire qui commencera le 5 décembre 2017.

En tant que citoyens de ce pays, nous continuerons à soutenir la vie, exiger la paix, combattre les injustices.

Nous resterons solidaires!
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Aufruf zur Solidarität mit den Friedensakademiker*innen aus der Türkei
Die ersten Gerichtsverhandlungen finden am 5.Dezember. 2017, um 9:00 in İstanbul, Justizpalast Çağlayan statt.

Seit der Veröffentlichung der Friedenspetition am 11. Januar 2016 „wir werden kein Teil dieses Verbrechens“ mit unseren Unterschriften haben wir sowohl massive Unterdrückung als auch große Solidarität erfahren. Bis heute sind mehr als 500 Kolleg*innen durch Notstandsdekrete vom Staatsdienst entlassen und von den Universitäten gekündigt, sowie durch Druck zur Zwangspensionierung von ihren Universitäten und von ihren Studierenden getrennt. Vier unserer Kolleg*innen wurden ferner wochenlang arrestiert.

Heute stehen wir vor einer neuen Phase. Gegen die einzelnen Unterzeichner*innen der Friedenspetition vom 11. Januar werden einer nach dem anderen Verfahren mit dem Vorwurf “Propaganda für den Terror” eingeleitet. (siehe: türkisches Strafgesetzbuch, Artikel 7/2). Die Staatsanwaltschaft verlangt eine Haftstrafe von bis zu 7,5 Jahren.

Zuerst wurden die Unterzeichner*innen aus der Universität Istanbul und der Galatasaray Universität vor dem Strafgericht angeklagt. Ihnen folgten die Unterzeichner*innen der Marmara Universität, der Technischen Universität Yıldız, der Technischen Universität Istanbul, der Özyeğin Universität und der Kemerburgaz Universität. Wir wissen nicht, welche Unterzeicher*innen morgen an der Reihe sind.

Die Fälle werden mit derselben Anklageschrift “copy and paste ” eingeleitet, jedoch separat gegen einzelne Unterzeichner*innen. Die Fälle werden zu verschiedenen Terminen und in 10-Minuten-Abständen an verschiedene Strafgerichte verteilt, um die angeklagten Wissenschaftler*innen daran zu hindern, dass Sie vor Gericht zusammenstehen.

Bis zum 15. November 2017 wurde nur ein Zehntel der unterzeichnenden Wissenschaftler*innen angeklagt.

Trotzdem erstecken sich die Prozesse vom Dezember 2017 bis April 2018.

Die bisherige Unterstützung, die von den solidarischen Mitgliedern der Universitäten und Institutionen im In- und Ausland ausgeht, ist für uns von größter Bedeutung. In dieser neuen restriktiven Phase wissen wir, dass nicht die einzelnen Wissenschaftler*innen, sondern die Forderung nach Frieden und die Stimme der freien Wissenschaft angeklagt werden.

Wir brauchen wir Eure Unterstützung vor Gericht mehr denn je. Diese bisherige enge Unterstützung wollen wir noch koordinierter fortführen. Wir bitten Euch deshalb, uns ab dem 5. Dezember 2017 vor Gericht zu begleiten, indem Überwachungsteams, Beobachter*innen vor Ort zu gesendet werden, um einen transparenten Informationsaustausch zu ermöglichen.

Als Bürger*innen dieses Landes werden wir unsere Forderung nach Frieden und Leben weiter aufrechthalten und uns gegen alle Rechtsverletzungen und Ungleichheiten widersetzen.

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Barış İçin Akademisyenlerle Dayanışma
Çağrısı: #BarışTalebiSuçDeğildir
‘Barış Davası’ 5 Aralık 2017, saat 9:00’da Çağlayan
Adliyesi’nde başlıyor!

Barış talebimizi “Bu Suça Ortak Olmayacağız” başlıklı metine attığımız imzalarımızla kamuoyuyla paylaştığımızdan bugüne baskının da dayanışmanın da her türünü yaşadık. Bugüne dek KHK’lerle kamu görevinden ihraç, işten çıkartma, istifaya zorlama, emekli etme gibi yöntemlerle 500’den fazla arkadaşımız üniversite ve öğrencilerinden kopartılmaya çalışıldı. Dört arkadaşımız haftalarca tutuklu kaldı.

Şimdi ise yeni bir döneme girildi. Kamuoyunda Barış için Akademisyenler bildirisi olarak bilinen 11 Ocak Barış

Bildirisi İmzacıları hakkında tek tek “terör propagandası yapmak” iddiasıyla (TMK 7/2) 7.5 yıla kadar hapis cezası istemiyle davalar ardı ardına açılmaya başlandı.

Önce İstanbul ve Galatasaray Üniversiteleri’ndeki akademisyenler için açılan bireysel ağır ceza davaları, Marmara, Yıldız Teknik, İstanbul Teknik, Özyeğin ve Kemerburgaz Üniversitelerinden arkadaşlarımızla devam ediyor. Yarın bu zincire hangi üniversitenin ekleneceğini bilmiyoruz.

Davalar, aynı ‘kes+yapıştır’ iddianameyle ama ayrı ayrı açılıyor. Duruşmaların iki imzacı yan yana gelmeyecek şekilde, Ağır Ceza Mahkemelerine, günlere 10’ar dakikalık aralarla dağıtıldığını görüyoruz.

Bugün itibarıyla sadece onda birimize dava açılmış olmasına karşın, duruşmalar Aralık 2017’den Nisan 2018’e kadar uzanmış durumda.

Bugüne kadar yaşananlarda yurt içinde ve yurt dışındaki farklı üniversitelerin ve kurumların duyarlı mensuplarının gösterdiği destek bizim için çok önemli oldu. Aslında yargılananın tek tek bireyler değil, barış talebi ve talep ortaya koyan özgür bilimin sesi olduğunu çok iyi bildiğimiz bu yeni dönemeçte, desteğinize daha da fazla gereksinim duyuyor, sağlam bir işbirliğiyle süreci koordineli sürdürmeyi umuyoruz. 5 Aralık 2017’de başlayan dava maratonumuza gözlemcilerle, haber takibiyle, şeffaf bilgilendirmeyle katkıda bulunmanızı rica ediyoruz.

Bu ülkenin vatandaşları olarak barışı ve yaşamı talep etmeye, hak ihllalerinin ve eşitsizliklerin her türlüsüne karşı çıkmaya devam edecek, dayanışacağız.

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XVIII IAHPE Conference Preliminary Programme

XVIII Conference of the International Association of  Health Policy in Europe, 21-24 September 2017, Thessaloniki-Greece

European health policies in the era of capitalist crisis and restructuring

The International Association of Health Policy in Europe in collaboration with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Queen Mary University of London are inviting you to the XVIII IAHPE Conference that will be held in Thessaloniki on the 21st until the 24th September 2017.

You can download the preliminary programme here

IAHPE pre-conference research workshop at QMUL, organised by the International Health and Political Economy of Health (IHPEH) Research Group | 14th September 2017, London

IHPEH pre-conference research workshop

14 September 2017 – 10:00 to 16:00

Garrod Building, Whitechapel Campus, Queen Mary, University of London

                                                           

Overview

The XVIII Conference of theInternational Association of Health Policy in Europe (IAHPE) will be held on the 21st -24th of September 2017 in Thessaloniki Greece. The IAHPE conference will focus on the contemporary developments and research in European health polices within the context of capitalist crisis and capitalist economic restructuring.

The International Health Political Economy of Health (IHPEH) research workshop on the 14th September at QMULwill provide a space for researchers to practice and critique their research papers ahead of IAHPE’s conference.The workshop will allow young researchers to present their posters, practice their presentation skills, and explore through constructive thinking ways for improving their research projects. Topics that will be discussed at the workshop include among others research on the Europeanization of health systems, International Trade Agreements and their impact on health services, health governance of the refugee crisis in Europe and the role of social movements in public health advocacy. 

Attendance

Attendance at this event is by invitation only. 

IHPEH Workshop Organizing Committee

Sarah Amin (s.amin@qmul.ac.uk), Arianna Rotulo (ariannarotulo@gmail.com), Dr. Jonathan Filippon (j.g.filippon@qmul.ac.uk), Dr. Elias Kondilis (e.kondilis@qmul.ac.uk)

Contact and further information

For any query regarding the event please send an email at: ihpehresearch@gmail.com

[DISRITMIAS] Mario Hernández: Cobertura universal o sistemas universales de salud?

Actualmente organismos internacionales como el Banco Mundial y la Organización Mundial de Salud promueven la cobertura universal en salud. Mario Hernández propone un análisis crítico de lo que implica la cobertura universal en salud en términos de la reproducción de desigualdades sociales y defiende la necesidad de sistemas universales de salud.