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Lessons From Disability Rights, Workers’ Rights, and Global Health

January 21, 2015
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At a recent event, three Open Society Fellows discussed how they have supported complex systems reform to address three movements—disability rights, workers’ rights, and global health.

Listen above as the panelists impart lessons that can be applied across a range of issues and sketch out common approaches that can be used by advocates across the globe.

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Access to Medicines, Accountability in Health, Anticorruption, Disability Rights, Harm Reduction, Health Financing, Migration and Asylum, LGBTQI

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