by Marta Monteso Cullell, AfGH project co-ordinator The EC recently released a new communication calling for a stronger EU response to global health challenges. It quite rightly deals with ill health as a multi-sector problem, based on poverty, inequality and human rights violations- representing a step in the right direction towards reaching universal access to [...]

A report by the IMF for G20 leaders on taxes on the Finance sector has been leaked. The report recommends new taxes on the sector to ease the financial crisis – including a “FAT” tax (Financial Activity Tax) on bank profits and bankers pay. The IMF report requested by G20 leaders on potential new taxes [...]

The CSW adopted the political declaration on the Beijing Platform. The document merely reconfirms the Beijing Declaration itself. Nonetheless, Ms. Migiro – UN Deputy Secretary-General – said the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action were at the heart of the United Nations normative and policy framework to promote the rights and empowerment of women [...]

On Tuesday 23 March, Oxfam International organised an EU Millennium Development Goals hearing in the European Parliament with a focus on health and education. Action for Global Health Brussels partners attended the hearing. The hearing was hosted by Michael Cashman, MEP rapporteur on the MDGs. The MDG hearing had a high-level panel of EU decision-makers, [...]

On March 25th, merry men and women, accompanied by angry bankers and confused Heads of State gathered on Place Luxembourg outside the European Parliament for a launch of the Brussels’ campaign on a financial transaction tax (FTT). Two Action for Global Health Brussels partners – The Stop AIDS Alliance (SAA) and the European Public Health [...]