Charters
Indian Women's Health Charter PDF Print E-mail
The Indian Women's Health Charter emerges out of the Women's Health Movement in India with a history spanning more than three decades since the 1970s. At this point in our long, eventful and ongoing struggle for women's health, it is time to bring together and consolidate women's positive demands relating to health and health care.

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Indian People's Health Charter PDF Print E-mail

The National Health Assembly held at Kolkata in December 2000 adopted a 20-point charter known as the Indian Peoples Health Charter, outlining a critical analysis of the Indian health scenario in the context of globalisation. This charter provides a statement of the shared understanding and goals that unite all the organisations working as part of the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan.

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The Cuenca Declaration PDF Print E-mail

The Second People’s Health Assembly was held in Cuenca, Ecuador from 17 to 22 July 2005 and was attended by 1492 representatives from over 82 countries. The Cuenca Declaration is the consensus document that arose from this Assembly. It reaffirms the continuing importance of the People's Health Charter and endorses a vision of a socially and economically just world in which peace prevails; a world in which all people,  are respected, are able to claim their right to health and celebrate life, nature, and diversity.

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The Mumbai Declaration PDF Print E-mail

Mumbai  Declaration was the consensus document of the 3rd International Forum for the Defence of the People’s Health held in  Mumbai on 14th and 15th of January 2004.

The Declaration focuses on the key challenges that the people of the world face today in achieving health. It is an update on the People's Charter for Health based on the collective experience of the movement.

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The Alma Ata Declaration PDF Print E-mail

The International Conference on Primary Health Care, meeting in Alma-Ata this twelfth day of September in the year Nineteen hundred and seventy-eight, expressing the need for urgent action by all governments, all health and development workers, and the world community to protect and promote the health of all the people of the world, hereby makes the following Declaration: 

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People's Charter for Health PDF Print E-mail

People's Charter for HealthThe People's Charter for Health is a statement of the shared vision, goals, principles and calls for action that unite all the members of the PHM coalition. It is most widely endorsed consensus document on health since the Alma Ata Declaration

The People's Health Charter was formulated and endorsed by the participants of the First People's Health Assembly held at Dhaka, Bangladesh in December 2000.

Read the People's Health Charter or download it from the Publications page. Access over 40 language translation on the PHM Global Publications page.

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