While the debate about changes in the domestic health care system is ongoing (and probably will be for a while)' let us look at what the rest of the world is doing. The first one is the World Health Organization. WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. While it is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends, it cannot cure the worlds population by itself. Other international organizations and countries have to step in and support the WHO’s mission. One of these supporting organizations is the European Union Commissions Directorate General for 'Health and Consumers'. Another one is the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), an international public health agency with more than 100 years of experience in working to improve health and living standards of the countries of the Americas. Check them out! They have a lot of information to offer.
Earlier this week, the University of Houston Law Center was fortunate to have as its guest Professor Daniel Kanstroom of Boston College of Law. An expert in immigration law, he is the Director of the International Human Rights Program, and he both founded and directs the Boston College Immigration and Asylum Clinic. Speaking as the guest of the Houston Journal of International Law’s annual Fall Lecture Series, Professor Kanstroom discussed issues raised in his new book, Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora . Professor Michael Olivas introduced Professor Kanstroom to the audience, and mentioned the fascinating tale of Carlos Marcello, which Professor Kanstroom wrote about in his chapter “The Long, Complex, and Futile Deportation Saga of Carlos Marcello,” in Immigration Stories , a collection of narratives about leading immigration law cases. My interest piqued, I read and was amazed by Kanstroom’s description of one of the most interesting figures in American le...
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