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Tlaleng Mofokeng

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Tlaleng Mofokeng, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, is Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University and the author of Dr T: A Guide to Sexual Health and Pleasure. 

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  1. A Rights-Based Global Food System
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    A Rights-Based Global Food System

    Nov 7, 2023 Oyinlola Oyebode, et al. advocate an approach to nutritional security that advances health and environmental imperatives.

  2. Decolonizing Public Health
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    Decolonizing Public Health

    Jun 30, 2021 Tlaleng Mofokeng describes the pillars of an anti-racist, anti-sexist approach during the pandemic and beyond.

  3. A Safe Retreat from the War on Drugs
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    A Safe Retreat from the War on Drugs

    Nov 11, 2020 Tlaleng Mofokeng applauds Oregon's decriminalization of drugs and advocates harm-reduction strategies like needle exchanges.

  4. An Interview with Tlaleng Mofokeng
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    An Interview with Tlaleng Mofokeng

    Aug 25, 2020 Tlaleng Mofokeng underscores the need to decolonize global health funding, identifies her main goal as UN Special Rapporteur for Health, and shares the firsthand experiences that motivate her work.

  5. Violence Against Women Is Blocking Development
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    Violence Against Women Is Blocking Development

    Feb 21, 2020 Tlaleng Mofokeng highlights the effects of countries' failure to provide essential services to victims of gender-based crime.

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    America’s “HIP” Economy

    Todd G. Buchholz sees developments and breakthroughs in health, information, and power as grounds for optimism.
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    Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

    Andrés Velasco reflects on the tragic fate of the country that took him in as a teenage refugee from Augusto Pinochet's Chile.
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    The Global Divide Over the Ukraine War

    Brahma Chellaney urges all parties to adopt a realistic approach to a deadlocked conflict and negotiate accordingly.
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    Europe Confronts the Ghosts of History

    Shlomo Ben-Ami highlights just how profound a transformation European – especially German – rearmament represents.
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    Trump’s Self-Inflicted Trade Disaster

    Kaushik Basu

    US President Donald Trump’s import tariffs have triggered a wave of retaliatory measures, setting off a trade war with key partners and raising fears of a global downturn. But while Trump’s protectionism and erratic policy shifts could have far-reaching implications, the greatest victim is likely to be the United States itself.

     warns that the new administration’s protectionism resembles the strategy many developing countries once tried.
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    The End of Germany’s Economic Delusions?

    Katharina Pistor

    It took a pandemic and the threat of war to get Germany to dispense with the two taboos – against debt and monetary financing of budgets – that have strangled its governments for decades. Now, it must join the rest of Europe in offering a positive vision of self-sufficiency and an “anti-fascist economic policy.”

     welcomes the apparent departure from two policy taboos that have strangled the country's investment.
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    The Fed, the Fund, and the Bank in Trump’s Crosshairs

    Barry Eichengreen explains why the US president’s second administration, unlike his first, is targeting all three.
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    Europe Can Easily Safeguard Ukraine

    Daniel Gros points out that the EU, the UK, and Norway have all they need to keep Russia at bay, without help from the US.
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    Toward a North American Economic Union

    Nouriel Roubini explains why Canada, Mexico, and the United States should pursue EU-style integration.

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