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| Steve Miller, DGH President, listening to the heart of a young patient in Hospital San Carlos, Chiapas, during a recent five-week evaluation of DGH projects in Central America and Mexico. |
DGH General Assembly. Join us in Boston, MA, on August 2 to 4, 2002, for Health & Justice: For All or "Just US," the 7th Annual DGH General Assembly. See details and the registration form. Also, come dance with us at the first DGH Benefit Concert that will kick-off the General Assembly. See details.
Annual Vigil at Ft. Benning to Close the School of the Americas. Join SOA Watch in Georgia the weekend of November 15 to 17 (www.soaw.org).
The Relevance of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child for US Domestic Policy: Welfare Reform and Children in Immigrant Families. This article, by DGH Board member Jennifer Kasper, MD, MPH, and Paul Wise, MD, MPH, (FXB Journal Health and Human Rights, Vol 5, No 2, 2001), discusses how welfare reform's effect on children in immigrant families offers an illustrative case of how US social policy could be examined and potentially altered through the lens of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Use of the Convention to focus on children and reframe welfare legislation could help underscore the nature of children's social claims and help generate a national consensus as to how to address them more effectively. The Convention could provide specific guidance to the medical profession on how to address theses challenges.
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