#SDGtalks featured Theresa Mathawaphan: “How Thailand fights in the crisis to support innovation and social sustainability"

On 2nd June (2:30pm Delhi/ 4pm Bangkok), the Sustainable Development e-Talks (#SDGtalks) series, co-hosted by CNS and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore, featured keynote speaker, Theresa Mathawaphan, who shared her insights on "How Thailand fights in the crisis to support innovation and social sustainability".

She discussed the ways Thailand deals with the sustainable development issues which makes its people can sustain their lives and leverage the quality of living. It also covered the importance of innovation toward the social sustainability, especially in the crisis time as in the current period of COVID-19.

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Economic loss caused by tobacco to global economy is over US$ 1.4 trillion every year


[published in Asian Tribune]
Professor (Dr) Surya Kant, Head of the Respiratory Medicine Department, King George's Medical University delivering his keynote address at the ongoing Sustainable Development e-Talks (#SDGtalks) co-hosted by Indian Institute of Management Indore and CNS, said that scientific evidence from countries hard-hit by corona virus disease (COVID-19) pandemic shows that those with previously existing conditions like heart diseases, high blood pressure, cancers, kidney diseases, diabetes, tuberculosis among others, are at an alarming risk of serious COVID-19 outcomes, including death. "Tobacco is the entirely-preventable common risk factor of these conditions that increase the deadly risk of serious outcomes of COVID-19." Professor Kant said.
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No excuse for inaction: #EndTobacco to prevent epidemics of diseases and deaths

[हिंदी] Tobacco kills over 8 million people worldwide every year. Tobacco remains a deadly, and yet entirely preventable, risk factor for a host of diseases-from the world's biggest infectious disease killer tuberculosis to major non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that account for over 70% deaths globally,  Whether it is the world’s biggest killer cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke) or cancers or diabetes or chronic respiratory diseases, it is tobacco which is a common risk factor to all. More alarmingly, it is also linked to COVID-19.
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[podcast] Understanding and confronting corporate power and greed as essential to social justice and change


This Podcast features Patti Lynn, who shared her insights on "Understanding and confronting corporate power and greed as essential to social justice and change". This #SDGtalks was also special as it was dedicated to celebrate the memory and legacy of Yul Francisco Dorado, a visionary tobacco control leader in Latin America who was also a part of Corporate Accountability team.

She was a keynote speaker for the Sustainable Development e-Talks (#SDGtalks) - a special series, co-hosted by CNS and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore from World Health Day (7 April 2020) to World Environment Day (5 June 2020).
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[video] Understanding and confronting corporate power and greed as essential to social justice and change


How can privatisation and foreign direct investment possibly make us a self-reliant nation?


Mahatma Gandhi's conception of self-reliance was of simple living and self-sufficiency. The basic idea was to use local resources and a local work force for the production of commodities for local consumption to the extent possible, with minimal dependence on the outside world. But the Indian government’s clarion call for ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ (self-reliant India) has not been matched by steps towards either simple living (especially for the middle and rich class) or local self-sufficiency. After perhaps one of the biggest and strictest lockdowns in the world owing to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the recently announced relaxations and relief measures aimed at rebooting the economy are likely to take us even further away from the Gandhian value of self-reliance.
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[podcast] Binding treaty on human rights and business must address corporate capture


This Podcast features Mona Sabella and Maha Abdallah, who shared their insights on "Binding global treaty on human rights and business must address corporate capture". They were keynote speakers for the Sustainable Development e-Talks (#SDGtalks) - a special series, co-hosted by CNS and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore from World Health Day (7 April 2020) to World Environment Day (5 June 2020).
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[video] Binding global treaty on human rights and business must address corporate capture


[video] Corporate capture


#SDGtalks featured Patti Lynn: Understanding and confronting corporate power and greed as essential to social justice and change

On Friday, 29th May (6:30pm Delhi time/ 9am Boston), the Sustainable Development e-Talks (#SDGtalks) series, co-hosted by CNS and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore, featured keynote speaker, Patti Lynn, who shared her insights on "Understanding and confronting corporate power and greed as essential to social justice and change".

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[podcast] COVID-19, young people and rights-based access to sexual and reproductive health services in Asia Pacific


This Podcast focusses on issues related to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and young people in Asia and the Pacific region. Experts include: Yueping Guo, Youth Representative, China Family Planning Association and Core Member of China Youth Network; Shelani Palihawadana, Youth Advocacy Network, Sri Lanka and Project Coordinator, "We Hear You"; Sangeet Kayastha, Coordinator and Founder of Y-PEER Asia Pacific Regional Center, Thailand, and International Steering Committee (ISC) member of APCRSHR10.

Be welcome to listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, aCast, Podtail, BluBrry, and other podcast streaming platforms.
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[video] COVID-19, young people and rights-based access to sexual and reproductive health services in Asia Pacific


#SDGtalks featured Maha Abdallah & Mona Sabella: Binding global treaty on human rights and business must address corporate capture

On Wednesday, 27th May (4pm India time/ 12:30pm Geneva), the Sustainable Development e-Talks (#SDGtalks) series, co-hosted by CNS and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore, featured keynote speakers, Mona Sabella and Maha Abdallah, who shared their insights on "Binding global treaty on human rights and business must address corporate capture".

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Rise in gender-based violence during COVID-19 warrants a gendered response

Preventing sexual and other forms of gender-based violence (SGBV) before it happens and meeting the needs of all survivors should always be a priority - but it becomes even more of a compelling priority during pandemics and other emergencies. Such crisis situations might exacerbate already existing risks of SGBV. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has forced upon us a reality check on progress (or lack of it) made on the gendered responses to end SGBV.
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[podcast] Connecting the dots: COVID-19, tobacco and lung health


This Podcast features Prof Surya Kant who share his insights on "Lung health, tobacco use and COVID-19." He was a keynote speaker for the Sustainable Development e-Talks (#SDGtalks) - a special series, co-hosted by CNS and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore from World Health Day (7 April 2020) to World Environment Day (5 June 2020).
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[video] Lung health, tobacco and COVID-19


Desperate times call for radical measures: COVID-19 and the need for the immediate nationalisation of the Indian healthcare sector

The Epidemics Act, 1897 gives the central and state governments authority to impose any regulations which may be necessary to contain the outbreak of a disease. Some state governments such as Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhatisgarh have already used this power to bring private healthcare facilities in their state under government control. Now that the national lockdown has been eased to a large extent, COVID-19 cases are predicted to increase rapidly in the coming days. Our government needs to do everything in its power to prepare hospitals, medical equipment and healthcare workers, as well as to scale up testing, tracing and isolation measures, to face this imminent deluge. At such a time, the nationalisation of the private healthcare sector in India is a possibility that must be seriously considered.
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[podcast] Are we on track to prevent breast cancer and avert untimely deaths?


This Podcast features Ritu Bhatia, Dr Pooja Ramakant, Dr Lopamudra Das Roy and Bret and Peggy Miller, who share their insights on "Reality check on preventing breast cancer and averting untimely deaths." They were keynote speakers for the Sustainable Development e-Talks (#SDGtalks) - a special series, co-hosted by CNS and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore from World Health Day (7 April 2020) to World Environment Day (5 June 2020).
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[video] Reality check on preventing breast cancer and averting untimely deaths


Governments' accountability for responding to COVID-19, NCDs and tobacco epidemics

Politics, in many ways, is the ultimate determinant of health, had said Dr Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, a couple of years back. In lead up to the 2020 World No Tobacco Day, and before the first virtual World Health Assembly began, a high level virtual meet with several government leaders from Asia and the Pacific region, convened to discuss governments' accountability in the context of the global public health emergency caused by coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that not only cause over 70% of deaths globally but also increase the risk of developing serious outcomes of COVID-19, including death. Tobacco use which kills over 8 million people every year, and is an entirely preventable and common risk factor of major NCDs, was also on the agenda.
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[podcast] No deep sea mining

This Podcast features Dr Helen Rosenbaum, who was a keynote speaker for the Sustainable Development e-Talks (#SDGtalks) - a special series, co-hosted by CNS and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore from World Health Day (7 April 2020) to World Environment Day (5 June 2020). She spoke on "Moratorium on deep sea mining is the only responsible way forward."
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[video] Moratorium on deep sea mining is the only responsible way forward


Ending tobacco use will reduce risk of deadly diseases including COVID-19

Tobacco and lung diseases increase the risk of serious outcomes of COVID-19 including death
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Scientific evidence from COVID-19 hard-hit countries globally has shown that elderly people and also those with conditions such as non-communicable diseases are at a much higher risk of severe outcomes of COVID-19, including death. “Tobacco use is the biggest common risk factor of major NCDs such as heart diseases and stroke, cancers, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases among others. Tobacco adversely affect the respiratory system and damages the lungs as well as weakens the immune system. Tobacco has a deadly connection with the world’s biggest killer infectious disease tuberculosis (TB), which heightens the risk of serious outcomes of COVID-19” said Prof (Dr) Surya Kant, Head of Respiratory Medicine Department of King George’s Medical University (KGMU). He said that people who have TB are usually more vulnerable to other infections, including the novel coronavirus, due to pre-existing lung damage. They are at a higher risk of developing complications from COVID-19.
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9th #APCRSHR10 Dialogues: COVID-19 and young people

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#SDGtalks featured Dr Helen Rosenbaum: Moratorium on deep sea mining is the only responsible way forward


On Thursday, 21st May (1pm India time/ 5:30pm Queensland Australia), the Sustainable Development e-Talks (#SDGtalks) series, co-hosted by CNS and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore, featured keynote speaker, Dr Helen Rosenbaum, shared her insights on "Moratorium on deep sea mining is the only responsible way forward".

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#SDGtalks featured Prof Surya Kant: Lung health, tobacco and COVID-19

On Saturday, 23rd May (3pm India time), the Sustainable Development e-Talks (#SDGtalks) series, co-hosted by CNS and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore, featured keynote speaker, Professor (Dr) Surya Kant, who shared his insights on "Lung health, tobacco and COVID-19".
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Stronger universal public health services, not privatization, will deliver #HealthForAll

When the world has come to a grinding halt due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, and it is majorly the public health services that are on the frontline of the efforts to contain it (with most of the private health industry 'safe distancing' by being shut or busy profit-minting), the writing is crystal clear on the wall: only stronger universal public health could be our saviour.
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Gandhi's talisman is best guiding light to reform public health

Dr Sandeep Pandey, Shobha Shukla, Bobby Ramakant
CNS photo from Gandhi's House, Gandhi/ Phoenix Settlement, Durban, South Africa
Mahatma Gandhi's talisman is perhaps the best guiding light to reform the public health system in the wake of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: "I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test- "Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."
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[podcast] Sexual and gender-based violence during coronavirus disease pandemic


This Podcast focuses on sexual and gender-based violence during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Asia and the Pacific region. Panelists include: Abigail Erikson, Ending Violence Against Women Programme Specialist, UN Women, Fiji Multi-Country Office; Ofa-Ki-Levuka Guttenbeil-Likiliki, Director, Women and Children Crisis Centre (WCCC), Tonga; Dr Chivorn Var, Executive Director of Reproductive Health Association of Cambodia (RHAC) and Convener of 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights (APCRSHR10), Cambodia; Matcha Phorn-In, an ethnic minority Lesbian Feminist Women Human Right Defender, Founder Executive Director of Sangsan Anakot Yawachon Development Project, Thailand.

Be welcome to listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn, aCast, Podtail, BluBrry, and other podcast streaming platforms.
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[video] Sexual and gender-based violence during COVID-19 pandemic in Asia Pacific


Only way for survival of humanity is solidarity: Kate Lappin

[podcast] Tobacco or health: choose life, not tobacco!

This Podcast features Dr Mayank Somani and Dr Ajaya Kumar, two renowned medical experts, who were speakers for the Sustainable Development e-Talks (#SDGtalks) - a special series, co-hosted by CNS and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Indore from World Health Day (7 April 2020) to World Environment Day (5 June 2020). They spoke on "health impacts of tobacco use."
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[video] Quitting tobacco is an imperative for #HealthForAll | #SDGtalks | Dr Mayank Somani & Dr Ajaya Kumar


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