Paulina Culum, advocate
I am a leader indigenous community of San Pablo la Laguna, Sololá. I have participated in different fields, at all levels. In 2014 I joined the CDIR-Health, to work for the health as a human right. This is the message that pregono in all the places where I intervene and participate.
Who are we?
History the CDIR-Health
The organization is one of the most important tools we have to exercise our civic participation. The effort to organize groups of community leaders to support the work of the health services through the surveillance and require solutions to identified problems, emerged 15 years ago.
Currently the CDIR-HEALTH is comprised of a community of leaders aware of the need to act to enforce the Right to Health. The members of the REDCSALUD know the gaps that exist as well as the problems faced by the public health services. Within them, discrimination and abuse towards the users themselves listed as violations of the Right to Health.
During the fifteen years of its existence, the REDCSALUD has grown and changed. Originally named as the Citizens Advice in Health, but with time and growth, and changes the name to Network Defenders and Community Right-to-Health -REDCSALUD-
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What do the defenders of health CDIR-Health at the local level and the central level to fix the problems in the health services?
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What is to be an Advocate or Defender of the Right to Health?
The United Nations tells us that "women human rights defenders and Human Rights defenders are people who act peacefully for the promotion and protection of human rights; fostering the development, the fight against poverty, carrying out humanitarian actions, encouraging the rebuilding of peace and justice, and promoting rights."
The name of advocates for the right to health, is the one that has been given to all the people of the communities, users of public health services, have become aware of their rights and of the importance of upholding these rights. Are people who are committed to the community, which have decided to provide a service to the community, in order to monitor and enforce that guarantee the right to health.
The defenders are leaders and leaders with a vocation of service that contribute their time, experience and expertise to the defence of human rights of the population, with an emphasis on the right to health.
Each defender that integrates the CDIR-HEALTH goes through a process of training and awareness-raising on human rights, the legal framework that protects the institution in health, means of communication, production of audio-visual material, management of the platform of complaints, policy advocacy, among others.
The work done to the CDIR-HEALTH is not limited to the monitoring of the violations of the right to health, this is an important work of incidence at the level of the authorities of the ministry of health and other institutions linked to or with responsibilities in this area.
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