Robert Walgate

Robert Walgate is a former communications officer for Tropical Disease Research at the World Health Organisation, and former news editor of the WHO Bulletin.

The United Nations and human rights: the danger of irrelevance

Irene Khan openDemocracy: Just after the attacks in Madrid on 11 March, the Brigade of Abu Hafs was reported in a London-based Arabic paper to have asked: "it is

By Robert Walgate

/ 18 Mar 2004

Sars and poverty  the missing argument

The western media complain that the outbreak of Sars, the new pneumonia from China, is overplayed because of its few cases and deaths. As of 29 April there were 5462

By Robert Walgate

/ 1 May 2003

Curing malaria: all Africa can try this at home

While the war in Iraq intensifies, with unknown numbers of casualties to expect, both during and after the armed conflict, many more lives are unnecessarily lost. Half a million deaths

By Robert Walgate

/ 27 Mar 2003

Robert Walgate

The United Nations and human rights: the danger of irrelevance

Sars and poverty &#150; the missing argument

Curing malaria: all Africa can try this at home

Sars and poverty the missing argument