Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA)
Community health workers in South Asia forge joint struggle for rights and recognition
Frontline health workers have issued a joint document calling on governments and international agencies to recognize and uphold their essential rights
Daily Round-up | Cuba set to hold referendum on family code & other stories
In today’s episode, we take a look at the ongoing Cuban referendum on the Family Code, the move by women health workers in India to form a federation, and anti-monarchy protests in the UK
Lauded by WHO, India’s frontline health workers are still fighting for basic rights
Over one million Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers have been awarded the WHO’s Global Health Leaders Award, recognizing their role in ensuring access to care in a health system that is still widely inaccessible, and increasingly privatized
- Google employees lead sit-ins protesting company’s complicity in genocide
- Israeli tourists attack vigil in Cusco in support of Palestine
- During Red April, Brazil’s MST restates the importance of agrarian reform
- German authorities’ crackdown on Palestine Conference sparks widespread outrage
- As elections approach, India’s farmers count government’s broken promises
