AWR Bulletin, vol. 45, no. 2 (2008) [contents]
- Mix of articles with one looking at asylum and immigration in Austria and Hungary.
Conflict and Health, 2:9 (30 Sept. 2008) [access]
- Includes article entitled "Users' guides to the medical literature: how to use an article about mortality in a humanitarian emergency."
Forced Migration Review, no. 31 (Sept. 2008) [full-text]
- The theme of this...
I often hear about the need for giving developing countries a break on intellectual property rights. As the argument goes - if they can’t afford the goods or services protected by patents, etc. they shouldn’t have to deal with paying high prices. Some go even further and suggest that IPR actually hurts development prospects by making key resources unavailable to the poor (such as medicines).
And its not just words - there are concrete actions. Take Brazil, for example — the country chose to ignore IPR and produce a generic version of an AIDS drug. And Brazil is not the only one, there are others.
Franklin Cudjoe, a civil society leader from Ghana, however, thinks that the poor only stand to lose from anti-patent crusades. To begin with he notes that:
For...
For most Irish doctors and nurses, the daily battle to save lives doesn’t begin until they reach their workplace.
In the southern Iraqi city of Basra however - about 600km south of the capital Baghdad - it’s a battle just to get to work safely through the dusty, rubbish-strewn and war-torn streets without being kidnapped or [...]...
The situation in Iraq has been worsening over the past few months.
A colleague of one of the doctors working in the children’s hospital in Basra was recently found dead in a rubbish dump, her body cut into pieces.
One important ward of the chilren’s hospital will close if my colleague in Vienna cannot help, and I hope [...]...
Journalist John Humphrys reported from Basra this week for the influential BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
Listen to the ‘Reconstruction and Corruption’ report as he speaks to the Director of one of the city’s hospitals and describes the conditions there....