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Palliative Care and Standards on the Rights of Older Persons

August 21, 2012

The UN is hosting the “Open-ended Working Group on Ageing for the purpose of strengthening the protection of the human rights of older persons” this month. Blog: Protecting the Rights of [...]
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Union Health Minister Mentions Palliative Care at UN General Assembly

September 22, 2011

The Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad, while addressing the High-level Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on the Prevention [...]
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Heartening Action by Government of India

August 24, 2011

Our July newsletter had started with a call to action regarding Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). We had attached Pallium India’s letter to the Ministry of Health and [...]
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Good News About Our Efforts at the UN NCD Summit

August 4, 2011

Thank you for the support! We blogged on 27 July seeking support for Pallium India’s efforts to boost Palliative Care Advocacy at the United Nations High-level [...]
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Call to Action! Send a Letter: Highlight Palliative Care at the UN NCD Summit

July 27, 2011

This September 19-20, Heads of State, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, are meeting at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York City to discuss [...]
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Pain Relief & Palliative Care: A Basic Human Right!

June 14, 2011

Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Foundations came together with six other international organizations, including Pallium India, to host a side-event during the recent 17th Session of [...]
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Pain in Africa

October 8, 2010

Kathy Kreiter, the executive director of International Association for Study of Pain (IASP) brings our attention to another report from the Economist, Pain in Africa: [...]
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Vatican: Nearly 2 billion people without access to basic medicine

June 27, 2010

Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, presented a [...]
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Shashi Tharoor visits TIPS

June 1, 2010

Former Under-Secretary General of United Nations, author and Member of Indian Parliament Mr Shashi Tharoor visited TIPS on the 24th of May 2010. He took [...]
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United Nations’ Commission on Narcotic Drugs

March 18, 2010

The United Nations’ Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) met last week in Vienna. Thanks to advocacy by several agencies, most noticeably Human Rights Watch, the [...]