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Po. Mangrol, Tai. Rajpipla, Dist. Bharuch, Gujarat (India). 393150. Tel (02640) 464=40 46=1-54.
20 August, 02
Dear Friend,
Gujarat and Gujarati Hindus are at the crossroad. The Chief Minister of the state has
persistently argued that there is a conspiracy to malign Gujarat through misleading
propaganda and false allegations; that the pride and self-respect - (The Asmita) - of 5
crore. Gujaratis is under attack; that the so-called paper tigers (English news media) and
anti-national fundamentalists are hell bent upon showing Gujarat in poor light to the
world.
We argue instead that it is the BJP’s record, policy and philosophy of managing the crisis
in the state is under scrutiny. The challenge is to the BJP’s and the Pariwar’s integrity and
their pride in unleashing terror on lacs of innocent, peaceful Muslims for the barbaric act
committed by some Muslims at Godhra. The BJP is mocking at the constitutional
principles of the rule of law and secularism. This is challenged.
That the BJP establishment has dared to fuse “the pride” of the BJP with that of Gujarat
and 5 crore Gujratis is deeply disturbing development in the post-independent India. This
daring act has a lot to do with the Gujarati Hindus’ acquiescence in the ruler’s deeds at
worst and in their deep ambivalence at best.
Gujarati Hindus’ silence - for whatever reason - is encouraging the Hindutva forces in
and outside Gujarat to unfurl their dangerous strategy of intolerance, of undermining the
constitutional frame of liberty and to divide the country along the lines of its choosing.
This is a recipe for anarchy and chaos. This will destroy peace, prosperity and order, the
last thing Gujaratis want.
Therp is highly cedible evidence that violent “Islamic Fundamentalism” has taken roots
in the Muslim countries. This obviously worries the Hindus but it is important to realise
that the overwhelming majority of ordinary Muslims in these countries are as hopelessly
caught in the poisonous web of hatred and falsehood, weaved by the fundamentalist
forces as are the vast majority of ordinary Hindus here.
It is equally an embarrassing and massive failure of secularist forces that neglected the
political and social bulwark of institutions (traditions, rules, conventions and laws).
Gujaratis must learn to break out of this web and not allow the destruction of Gujarat they
have always known and loved - a tolerant, peaceful and fun loving Gujarat.
This is our ultimate plea: We Are All Responsible Now for What Happens in Future.
22 July, 2002
We Are All Responsible Now for What Happens in Future
An eighteen year old young woman Mai Makhutar was gang raped in feudal rural Punjab
of Pakistan because her brother Shakoor dared to romance a girl from a higher caste - the
Mastoi Baloch. Local Council - Panchayat - of 6 elderly Mastoi met to adjudicate and
ruled that Shakoor’s Sister Mai be handed over to Mastoi men to be gang raped for next
hour in a nearby barn house. Revolting? Horrifying? We in India would be tempted to
pity Pakistan and patronizingly regret its degenerated ways - mob justice, and gross
human right violations. We better pause. Our beloved progressive, Gujarat is gripped by
mob justice and human right violations worse than in rural Pakistan
Ever since Godhra carnage occurred on the fateful day of February 27 2002, Gujarat is in
the eye of the storm. We have seen several communal riots in the last 30 years of public
life. But this is unique. Admittedly, the disturbances of last turbulent 3 decades have
earned Gujarat an unsavory label of “the most communal state”. We simply disagreed,
because in the villages and towns of Gujarat, we always saw Muslims and Hindus living
and trading peacefully together. A large number of Hindus and Muslims lived in harmony
in tightly packed, overcrowded Bastis for decades. In large shopping streets of
Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Bharuch, Surat, it is a common place to see Hindu shops adjacent
to Muslim shops, doing thriving business. We always laughed off the label because of the
social reality. Little did we realise that we would be caught unaware.
Then Godhra happened. Within 48 hours of Godhra massacre of Hindu Karsevaks by the
Muslims, the tidal wave of Hindu violence engulfed the cities of Ahmedabad and
Vadodara and towns and villages of Panchmahal, Sabarkantha and Mehsana districts.
Innocent Muslim men, women and children were killed en mass in most gruesome way
while the police looked on passively When the police control stations in Ahmedabad and
Gandhinagar were flooded with desperate cries for help from Muslims, senior ministers
sitting there watched the unfolding events dispassionately. Ahmedabad city was left to
marauding mobs for 72 hours The police simply disappeared from the streets. Even a
small boy knew that it was free for all for the next 3 days. Muslim properties across
Ahmedabad city including those on the most prestigious shopping street of C G. Road
were systematically ransacked and burnt. Eyewitness accounts reported that young upper
middle class women in their gleaming cars descended on C. G Road, casually entered the
broken Muslims shops and leisurely selected and tried expensive foot wears, and
tastefully selected saris, salwar - kameez, walked away with hands-full of merchandize
and drove away peacefully. There was no tension, terror, pelting of stones, police sirens,
firing - nothing. Ahmedabad city was surrendered to Hindu arsonists and looters to do
whatever they wanted to Muslim properties. We are deliberately omitting the blood
curdling accounts of how Muslim women were raped and killed by the frenzied mobs, of
the children hacked right before their mothers, and of the planned killings of frightened
Muslims trying to run away from the blood thirsty Hindu mobs on the roads of the rural
areas of Sabarkantha, Panchmahal and Mehsana, while the police stood in silence. Senior
police officers in Ahmedabad blandly denied gang rapes saying “in such mayhems rapes
are impossible!” Unbelievable but true, 3 months after the horrors, Out Look newsweekly
published revelations of a senior minister made before Citizens Tribunal that the Chief
Minister Modi on 27th February had summoned a meeting of top bureacrats and police
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officers of the state. He issued instructions to keep police away during the next 24 hour’s
VHP Bandh. “There would be justice for Godhra” he said and the police should not come
in the way of “the Hindu back lash.” A senior police officer protested, but was silenced.
What happened in the next 48 hours is now a history. The account has not been
challenged, nor any action taken against the magazine.
Lest it be thought that these are reproductions from English media, we hasten to add that
we have traveled places and obtained individual eyewitness accounts of Muslims killings
and lootings from the camps and Bastis in the districts of Sabarkantha, Panchamahai,
Vadodara and Bharuch. One of us (Rajesh) was a witness to the week long build-up of
violent atmosphere leading to looting and burning of 152 houses and shops of Muslims
and Bohras of Kawant. The District Collector and Police Officer received countless calls
from desperate Rajesh and others, but remained unmoved. The rape of Kawant was
predetermined in Gandhinagar, the district officers merely complied.
Kawant and Panwad - 8 kms from Kawant - were looted and burnt a full week after
pogroms in Ahmedabad, Baroda and the adjoining districts had run its course. Modi
claimed and Delhi endorsed it - that peace was restored in Gujarat in 72 hours after
Godhra! Kawant and Panwad, the bustling, trading towns of the tribal area had never
witnessed communal disturbances since independence. In fact, the large tribal belt of East
Gujarat, stretching from Banaskantha in the North through Sabarkantha, Panchmahal,
Baroda, Bharuch in the south was barely scratched by communal disharmony in the past.
This was not a spontaneous fury of angry Hindus as claimed by the Hindutva forces. It
had all the hallmarks of pre-planning and co-ordination. Fundamentalists carried out the
outrage long after the pogroms of Ahmedabad, Mehsana, Panchmahal and other places.
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The state connived and held law and order in abeyance. Vast areas of Gujarat convulsed
with almost unilateral Hindu fundamentalist violence for the next four months. Never
before Muslim was so frightened, insecure and isolated in Gujarat. Muslims in North and
Central Gujarat were frightened to appear alone on the roads and the streets. We have
never witnessed such state sponsored terror and violence in Gujarat.
True, Godhra massacre by the Muslims was a ghastly act, but how can a state abandon its
constitutional obligation to maintain law and allow paralysis of economic activities for
four months? The state, gone berserk, is disturbing enough, but the tacit-support of
Gujarati Hindu Middle Class (GHM) - educated, technology savvy, exposed to the world
- to this wholly avoidable human tragedy is appalling and frightening. In the drawing
rooms of the GHM, derogatory comments galore: ‘Muslims richly deserved this; they are
a violent and fundamentalist community; their bodies are in India but heart in Pakistan,
they should go to Pakistan; they overbreed; they harbour Pakistani terrorists and smuggle
explosives, arms and narcotics; they had to be taught lessons and put in their place.’
Barring a few exceptions, to most GHM, it was just and proper to take revenge of Godhra
killings in other parts of Gujarat. To them, the Muslim community was guilty as a whole
and the mob justice right. The passion, the conviction and the sincerity of their views
revealed a lot. The constitutional guarantee of the rule of law, equality of all before the
law was a fiction - merely a piece of paper. It mattered little to them that Muslim High
Court judges hid from murderous crowds and the police watched; at least in 2 cases
police reluctantly escorted them to a safety of Muslims areas! Their brother judges in the
High Court observed studied silence. (True, three retired Chief Justices spoke out). The
High Court lawyers were abnormally complacent about absent law and order and
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violation of human rights. Doctors, other professionals business community, industrialists
(with exceptions) were complacent no less. Only the police, receiving flak from the
national, international media and intellectuals was shaken. The police association
formally resolved to uphold the law and order in future!
An unreal fear psychosis has gripped the GHM. Even if some felt vague unease about the
innocent Muslims being victimised for the crime committed by other Muslims at Godhra,
they kept silence. Large circulation Gujarati dailies published unfounded, inflammatory
accounts of involvement of large sections of Indian Muslims with the terrorists; of
smuggling of arms, explosives, narcotics and of the sanctuaries, provided to Pakistani
agents in the Muslim homes. The rumour mill worked over time, echoing poisonous
propaganda against Muslims by the Hindu fundamentalists. Many intellectuals in
Gujarati press came forward to provide rationalisation for the fear psychosis being built
up by rumours and innuendoes. To begin with intrinsic intolerance of Islam was assumed.
Thence followed the historic injustices by the Muslim invaders centuries ago; duplicity
and deceit of Muslim League and Jinnah; traumas of the partition; the rise and growth of
Islamic fundamentalism in the last few decades across the crescent of Muslim countries
from Morocco in the west to Philippines in the far east; the genesis of al-Quaeda
terrorism of September 11 and the terrorist attacks in Kashmir from across the border.
While some of the pieces like al-Quaeda terrorism in the U.S. and elsewhere feeding on
the rising wave of fundamentalism in the Muslim countries are factually true, the first
premise of the dubious logical chain - intrinsically intolerant Islam, is simply not true
(Read Galib for a start!) It is a slur on the great religion, by the bigots and the myopic.
Nor is the connection with Jinnah and Muslim league tenable. The connection of the
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chain of reasoning to Gujarati Muslims and their putative behaviour is not only down
right lie, it is devilish in intent and design. Sadly the GHM has swallowed without
hesitation this scandalous reasoning and misinformation as true, and tacitly supported
mob attacks on the Muslims.
It never occurred to them that the mob justice is a primitive justice and not justice of the
civilised society. They easily forgot that when al-Quaeda terrorists struck in New York
and Washington, killing about 4000 innocent civilians, terrified and angry Americans did
not go on killing spree of innocent Asians, but showed exemplary discipline. President
Bush’s appeal not to take law in hand was almost totally heeded. Barring two killings (the
killers were convicted) America remained peaceful, mourned her dead with great dignity,
and reveled deep spirituality.
This is not a place to delve deep in to the history long past of Muslim invasions and their
deeds I misdeeds, suffice it is to say that many were unsophisticated warlords, with little
understanding of Islam. Nor is it a point that Jinnah, far from being Muslim fanatic, was
the most prominent exponent of Hindu-Muslim unity in British India in his early ctvtar.
He later became the father of pernicious doctrine of Muslim nation based on religion,
though he was not religious fanatic. His single-minded pursuit of Pakistan was driven by
pure political ambition, so much so that he cared little for the millions of Muslims he left
behind. Denying all facts, Jinnah vilified Gandhi and the Congress as only Hindu. He
bullied and insulted large number of nationalist Muslims like Azad and others as stooges
of “Hindu Congress.” He yearned to see the rise of Hindu fundamentalists as a counter
foil to Muslim League. Nonetheless his tirades were not of a religious bigot. Gandhi and
his great generals Nehru, Sardar, Azad foiled his dangerous game. The congress
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remained truly nationalist, and the Hindu fundamentalists were sidelined. Gandhi’s bid to
avert partition failed. Two-nation theory of Jinnah triumphed. Pakistan was created. Two
nations were bom amidst the worst blood bath India has seen. Three million innocent
Hindus and Muslims were slaughtered on both sides of the border. Gandhi and his
colleagues stood by the Indian Muslims in their trying hours. Jinnah saw the bloody
consequences of his doctrine. He was humane enough to atone and advised Indian
Muslims publicly to trust Gandhi! Belatedly he acknowledged that Gandhi was a good
man. Gandhi indeed was a true Hindu who brought out the best in Hindu Dharma in the
great tradition of Ramkrishna - Vivekananda. He lived by the ideal of Lord Rama and of
Gita preached by Lord Krishna. (Koran is as spiritual as Gita is - Azad and many before
him and after him have showed this.) He and his trusted colleagues Nehru, Sardar, Azad,
Prasad etc doused the wild passion of blind revenge. Finally in his last act of
renunciation, Gandhi sacrificed his life for Hindu - Muslim unity. Hindu fanatic killed
him but the fundamentalists were contained. Jinnah did not win.
Gandhi was no votary of constitutional liberties and parliament. He was however acutely
aware of the insecurities felt by the minorities once British left the country. He
energetically intervened to get congress committed to develop this country as a
democratic, secular state where all citizens enjoy full and equal rights irrespective of the
religion to which they belong. The Constitution enshrined the right of individual liberty,
the equality before the law of all citizens irrespective of caste or creed - the rule of law.
From this followed the parliamentary democracy based on free elections, independent
judiciary and the great principle of secularism - under the savage attack at the moment.
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Jinnah, waking to the enormity of his theory, wanted Pakistan to adopt a la India liberal
constitution and secularism but the death intervened and the Muslim League abhorred
“the dangerous idea.” Pakistan never saw the great ideals taking roots. India did, thanks
to Gandhi, Nehru and Sardar.
No doubt, India immersed in the tradition of authoritarian hierarchy of old, of castes and
gender; of illiteracy and poverty, did not find it easy to live by the principles of the liberal
constitution - mauled severely in the ‘70s. Yet India managed better than most
sympathisers had anticipated in the early ‘50s - that it until February 2002. Admittedly,
the idea of the state upholding the law and order took a sever beating in anti-Sikh Delhi
riots of 1984. More than two thousand innocent Sikhs were murdered, while the state
machinery watched on. Even this biot pales in comparison to post Godhra massacre in
Gujarat.
The congress presiding over 1984 massacre suspended the law and order machinery and
led the mobs in the killings of Sikhs, but had sense not to take pride in its misdeeds and
wanted to forget it. Not so, the Hindutva forces in Gujarat and New Delhi. They are
proud of what they did in Gujarat. They are warning the Muslims to behave and accept
their place, meaning second class citizenship. They are in a hurry to cash in on the
looming elections in Gujarat and hopefully later in other states. “Moderate” Vajapayee in
his infamous speech in Goa - “wherever there is Muslim there is discord.” - has put a
seal of approval on Hindutva’s deeds in Gujarat.
Jinnah’s poisonous wish of Hindu fundamentalism taking a center stage in India may
now well be realised because the GHM is too immersed in its make - believe world to
see the dangerous turn. It refuses to imbibe core principle of the civilised society that
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punishment for the crime committed by some at one place and time cannot be given to
others at different place and time by mobs. The GHM refuses to learn from history that to
take revenge of the past is counterproductive. This is elementary - but eludes it. Many
intellectuals have argued that these ideas of “law and order, of secularism, of equality
before the law” are culture specific, product of specific place and time, alien to our
culture. They are the artifacts imposed on us by the Western hegemony, to further their
own interests. This is a cultural invasion akin to globalisation! The GHM would concur
and like to believe that these ideas are “abstractions” it can not understand!
This is a dangerous illusion, pretence and laziness. The GHM has avidly assimilated
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applied western science, law, education, technology, commerce, medicine and the rest.
They are no more abstract or concrete than are the basic constitutional tenets of the
civilised society - the rule of law, secularism, and the individual liberty. They are as
indispensable for future peace and prosperity as are science, education, technology and
commerce. The GHM must grasp the horrendous implication that to connive with the
fundamentalist state trampling over the civil rights of the Muslims today can pave the
way for it to do the same to GHM tomorrow. These are not decorative ‘abstractions’. The
concrete lessons of fascism enthroning itself through “democratic” election, destroying
liberty have not sunk in yet. The GHM thinks it is safe and secure today and forever! It is
in for unpleasant surprise - it is sowing the wind and will reap the whirlwind. Basically it
is very simple: we are all responsible now for what happens in the future.
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world-renowned cruseder Tor low-cost cornmuniiy-bssed
heaithcare, Zafrullah Chowdhury of Bangladesh, has
come down heavily on the ongoing commercialisation of
Ayurveda in India..
'Av,jrved3 should not co ths s!loo2thv wsv.” Dr.
Chowdhury, who was here to attend the World Ayurveda
Congress, said in an interview with The Hindu on
Sunday. "Ayurveda should not repeat the mistakes made
by allopathy which is being heartlessly commercialised
and exploited by the muitinationai drug companies "
Dr. Chowdhury, a tnorasic surgeon trained in the U K..
is the projects coordinator of Gcnoshasfhaya Kendra
(GK), which had set a mode! for developing countries
in reaching low-cost heaithcare to me underprivileged
people.
^Jhe GK, which was set up in 1971 by a group of
^Bealthcare professionals engaged in the Bangladesh
liberation war to treat wounded freedom fighters, now
wotKS for about a million rural people.
It campaigns for healthcare through community action,
for low-cost healtncare and for popularising
traditional systems of medicine. It is a strong
opponent of exploitation by multinational drug
companies.
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The GK hosted the December 2000 ’People’s Health
Assembly held tn Dhaka, which was attended by NGO
activists and healthcare professional from about 100
countries.
Dr. Chowdhury said Ayurveda, which was a ’science with
a soul’, was being recklessly commercialised and. in
the precess, its soul and philosophy were being
killed. "In Ayurveda, the philosophy is more important
than the herbs and drugs used for treatment," he
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and environment The ill person was viewed as a part
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of his or her surroundings snd his or her reletions
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treatment.
If this philosophy was ignored, as in the case of
allopathy, the ancient system of healing would be
ruined. He noted thet Ayurveda was not based on Hindu
philosophy, but Indian philosophy which was a
composite one.
He said that as a fallout of commercialisation, there
was now a mushroom growth of Ayurvedic preparations
which contained steroids alcohol and other harmful
components. He referred to the 1991 Sura Tragedy
near Delhi, which killed some 700 persons who had
taken an Ayurvedic preparation that contained a heavy
dose of illicit alcohol.
He wented the manufacture and sale of Avurvedic drucs
io be stncily reoulaied. The drugs and ireaiment
should be made accessible to al: and affordable to the
poor. Because of rapid commercialisation, the prices
Of Ayurvedic drugs had shot up in the recent past.
F"'e suGcested that A»vurvedic doctors encouraoe a
holistic view of healthcare. They should also enhance
people's knowledge and spend more time on creating
awareness of health.
’Handwash scheme.'
Dr. Chowdhury said the World Bank-initiated "Washing
Hands Initiative' to be introduced in Kerala shortly
was an insult to Keraiites.’ He said he was
flabbergasted at the very idea of a scheme that would
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hsnds using soap so ihai they could kssp off
diarrhoea.
He noted that in India the incidence of diarrhoea was
the lowest in Kerala. It was a cruel ploy by the
multinational soap companies to market their products
and to snuff oui competition trom local soap
Companies. "it shows the arrogance and obstinacy of
the World Bank and the multinational companies," he
said.
(The World Bank's Water and Sanitation Programme is
launching the Hand Washing Initiative in Kerala and
Ghana. Africa, shortly. The programme, ostensibly
aimed to reduce incidence of diarrhoea by popularising
washing germs on the hands, is supported oy World
Health Organisation ano London School of Hygiene and
TrQnirgl JVJsdlCinS.
The funding comes from the multinational companies
Proctor and Gamble. Johnson and Johnson, Hindustan
Lever and Godrej (ail of which manufacture soap) as
well as the USAID, the Environmental and Health
Programme and a Dutch agency. McKinsey is the
management consultant to the programme.
The Hand Washing scheme in Kerala is said to cost Rs.
48 crores.
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finiriendcircle] cancer hospital in Nasik
Subject: Re: [mfriendcircle] cancer hospital in Nasik
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:11:16 +0530
From: "Shubha Maudgal" <cpaasso@vsnl.com>
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Dear Dr. Shyam,
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We are in the process of compiling a mailing group consisting of members
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As a first step, two CPAA representatives visited Gandhidham and conducted
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We plan to hold training sessions in Mumbai for interested members during
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Towards this end, I would request you to send me the following information:
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Director, New Projects,
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> dear all
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[science-movement] Fwd: an article (fwd)
Wed, 4 Dec 2002 05:51:40 -0800 (PST)
Anshumala <anshumala@yahoo.com>
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From: "R. Ramanujam"
Subject: an article (fwd)
hi,
his article by aravinda (aid-india) and medha patkar appeared in > the liindu, dec 3, 002.
i think this is an issue to be seriously debated within the PSM, and suggest that we earn/
a translation in siragu, to begin with.
ramanujam
Interlinking Mirages
Startling news for some and somewhat dreamy for others is the resurrected plan of
interlinking rivers of India. Cited by President Kalam and pushed by Chief Justice Kirpal
on the verge of retirement, the sheer grandeur of the idea is meant to appeal to people
facing drought and flood. Anyone who knows what river systems are, what inter-basin
transfers bring forth, and the politics and economics of large river valley and inter-basin
projects, will know that whatever water this plan holds is but a mirage.
One wonders not at gleaming messages from the President on the eve of Independence
day. As a scientist, though, has he seen the plan, impacts assessment, projected costs and
benefits? Since it is APJ Kalam talking, Arundhati Roy’s comparison of big dams to
nuclear bombs comes to mind. Is this a scientist talking politics or a politician talking
> science?
> Whenever dams and water policy, Enron or some other project Jias come before the
judiciary, it has taken the position that it is for the executive to de cide on policy. Does
the Supreme Court have a locus standi to order interlinking of rivers? Without debate
preconditional to a decision, with no specifics available for concerned citizens, people’s
organisations, and independent experts to peruse, the gigantic idea appears bearing the
seal of the apex court. Common people have been taught from childhood to accept its
“verdict” as conscientious, constitutional, and “legal.” Once considered a fait accompli, a
democratic review or scientific assessment and decision become almost redundant.
We have seen the politics that come with any human intervention in rivers flowing since
generations from one administrative unit to another. With all the water that has flown or
not flown into Cauvery, one cannot take seriously a grandiose dream of linking all the
rivers. But hearing it from the highest echelons of the State and judiciary, one cannot
wait for some agency of the same state to bring out the plus and minus of it.
A hasty beginning may not be prevented unless civil society, experts, and common
people respond.
River basin management in the context of gigantic water planning is discussed in
national and international laws, inter river transfer has come under criticism since the
Irrigation Commission of British days,.and plans such as Captain Dastur’s “garland
canal” rejected decades ago, even when big dams were in full swing. Interlinking rivers
> was rejected in the nineties by the centre, on advice of experts and bureaucrats such as
Dr. M.S. Reddy, and the recent Supreme Court Order termed an “error” by Dr.
amaswamy Iyer (both cx-Sccretarics, Water Resources Ministry').
Prior experience teaches that we must study basic aspects of each river basin, including
catchment are a treatment, command area development, benchmark survey of the
affected population, impacts of the reservoir and canal system on farmers, and fisheries,
and public health. Environmental Impact Assessment will be inevitable. Compensatory
and mitigatory plans must be rationally conceived. Where the canal network extends,
will surveyors assess whether soil is irrigable through surface waler flows without
waterlogging and salinisation that has taken a million hectares of Indian Land? What
would be the impacts on food security already in crisis, of a sudden change in cropping
partem?
Enough warnings have been given. The River Valley Guidelines (1983) discuss
environmental and social impacts due to transfer of water and people beyond suitability.
Unless these become part of the project planning, they are neither considered nor dealt
with.
Struggles in the Narmada Valle y and on other projects pushed due to political
expediency without complete appraisal, have brought out the seriousness of large scale
displacement as well as impacts on and injustice to the proposed beneficiaries. Basic
questions demand investigation. Will such a linking of rivers actually prevent drought?
Or merely transfer drought? What will be the extent of displacement, and provisions for
rehabilitation? Cangle: also displace. In the Sardar Sarovar project, 1,50.000 landholders
stand to lose land due to the canal network, of whom 23.500 will lose more than 25% of
their land, and 2,000 will become landless. None is considered project-affected nor
eligible for rehabilitation.
For inrra-river basin transfers, the principle, of subsidiary requires that water be
harnessed from where it first drops. The whole crisis of water management today is due
to total neglect of water harvesting, either because it is considered peripheral or to be a
non-rcplicablc, non-profitablc micro-level experiment.
Therefore we see the destraction of cultures, communities, and ecosystems, creating
conflicts between states, as in Cauvery, and between state and people, as in Narmada.
Conflicts are dealt with more politically than scientifically. If this happens in just one
river basin, imagine the consequences across several river basins. Interstate disputes
could lake decades to resolve.
As our national highways have become conveyor belts for enormously polluting
noxious emissions, the huge interlink threatens to become an open sewage garlanding
India. The canals, designed for carrying irrigation walers raiher than large peak flows,
will not be sufficient to control or divert floods in the northern states but will transfer
silt. S everal large dams built to provide the head and storage required to supply tire
canals will permanently submerge fertile lands, forests, village communities and towns,
leaving millions of people displaced or dispossessed. Any attempt to obtain full
information, question impacts and demand just compensation requires sacrifice by
communities living on the natural resources.
Interlinking Himalayan and peninsular rivers is budgeted at Rs. 5.6 lakh crores, even
before the completion of feasibility studies, expected by 2008, at a cost of 150 crores.
Have alternatives been assessed? When pending water projects require Rs. 80.000 crores
to be completed and made usable as per Parliamentary' Committee report, is such
> a plan viable, scientific, or democratic? 1 here is no time, space, or process indicated
for participation of communities whose riparian rights must be considered , and who face
upstream impacts, which are now known, and lesser-known downstream impacts.
Annual Irrigation budgets of state governments are about 1000 crores each. From where
will the money for inter-linking rivers come even if states pool resources for the next
several decades? At the cost of local irrigation projects of the true and tested kind that
have kept India self-sufficient. In this esoteric experiment of Inter-linking rivers, India
itself is the sttinea pis.
Water is not like cement or concrete - it is life. Just distribution and full appreciation of
its economic, financial, environmental and social dimensions must be part of the
planning process. The 73rd amendment and the Tribal Self-rule Act direct that people’s
consent and consultation cannot be sidelined. Rivers support millions of people. A
grandiose scheme such as interlinking would be likely to involve international lending
agencies. Before anything starts, let people know what is in the mind of the president,
the ministers and sanctioned by the outgoing chiefjustice within a few days.
It will he nothing short of criminal if water is not treated properly and the water crisis
worsens. Already Shivnath river in Chattisgarh is privatised, and the contractor has
snatched away people’s
right even to drinking water. People of die country deserve to know if this centralised
plan will nationalise the water only to privatise, just as national public property is doled not sold - out at meagre prices, whether it is oil, gas, land or mineral resources, to private
companies foreign and domestic Multinational / Antinational Corporations.
In nature what is linked are not rivers but water itself, through the hydrological cycle. A
balanced water cycle demands a & gt: holistic policy that promotes forest cover, prevents
erosion, enhances ground water through micro-watershed structures, and provides for
destitution and maintenance of existing tanks, lakes and reservoirs. Agricultural
practices and public distribution system should be in tune with the diversity of diets
based on local conditions rather than on water intensive monocultures. A vigilant
judiciary should punish corrupt administrations for non-impiementation of
environmental regulations, right to life, livelihood, and minimum wages in an age where
there is enough food to fill the godowns of India while poor citizens, especially
women and children, sleep hungry and malnourished.
- Mcdha Patkar and L.S. Aravinda
Biotechnology
Subject: Biotechnology
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:08:15 +0530
From: Aruna Rodrigues-Clarke <sunray@sanclianiet.iii>
Organization: Sunrav Harvesters
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By Nathan B. Batalion
Published by Americans for Safe Food. Oneonta, N.Y.
Credits and acknowledgements to: peoplesearth.org & Mercola.com
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By Sunray Harvesters
"The crysng of anima's is nothing more than just the creaking of machines"
Rene Descartes
NOTE
This summary of the above impressive document on Biotechnology By Nathan B. Batalion,
Published by Americans for Safe Food. Oneonta,- N.Y. has been prepared by Sunray
Harvesters in the public interest. We increasingly enter an age where the whole of nature
and the natural world is being irrevocably altered at the behest of a miniscule, but powerful
lobby, who claim to know what is best for us all. Their insidious actions under the label of
good science and technology are ill-conceived and ethically abhorrent, because they are
imposing a "non-living model onto nature". All of life and the ecology is infused and
enlivened by a master factor 'compassionate give-and-take'. But the alternative view of this
lobby, so powerfully and prophetically expressed by Descartes, is inhumane, mechanistic and
technocratic. Greed and power fuel this process. We are often told that bio-technology after
all, isn't that different from hybridisation. The truth of course is that there is a quantum and
unnatural distance between the two. Hybridisation allows "conscious life to make primary
genetic decisions", it does not erode or warp the "integrity of the life-force" within every cell- Not so with biotechnology. If a rose can become part pig and we can't smell the difference
and worse, no longer know the difference, and the face of a goat is atop the body of a sheep
and more besides, then we have the doomsday prophecy of an Apocalypse being visited on
us now, quite literally. This technology is called biolistics - "a gunshot-like violence that
pierces the nuclear membrane of cells". In other words, a forced entry akin to rape. But it
goes beyond even this, because this forced entry essentially "violates the consciousness that
forms and guides living nature". The horror of these words is palpable. Under whose
guidance wiii this mechanical and non-living re-creation of nature be?
Narrow disciplines that ignore the full dimension of what it is to be human are far from
scientific in the true sense of the word. We may not, therefore, except at great peril to our
world, allow ourselves to be seduced and beguiled by claims, scientific or otherwise, that
drive against our deepest instincts of decency and humanity. We need to consciously reclaim
these twin qualifies. As importantly, we need the confidence to restore them to their rightful
position as guiding beacons of light to ethical behaviour. We will succeed or fail, largely
depending on our refusal to tolerate mindsets that are devoid of a wholeness of perspective
and spiritual depth, from the sphere of decision-making on the issues of life. We urgently
need to put in place an international moratorium against the use of biotechnology and
bioengineering, if only because the ignorance is blatant and huge. Nathan Batalion has
compiled an impressive array of evidence, supported by people at the cutting edge of their
respective disciplines, to warn us of the profound impacts of a deviant and horror-ridden
technology. The chain of reactions is imposed on everyone without choice, with an
irrevocable and unstoppable impact.
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We eat for nourishment and vitality. Yet, "there are only a few remaining pockets of diverse
seed stocks to ensure the long-term resilience of the world's staple foods. All of them are in
the Third World. Food scientists indicate that if these indigenous territories are disturbed by
biotech's advance, the long-term vitality of all of the world's food supply is endangered.
Furthermore, we wiii be 'bio-colonised'. The combined control of genetic and agricultural
resources is a powerful weapon for the invasion of cultures; for only when a people lose food
self-sufficiency do they become wholly dependent and subservient. That is why 500,000
farmers in India staged a protest on October 2, 1993 against GATT trade regulations and
now oppose GM seed products. Under the new regulations of WTO, the World Bank, GATT,
NAFTA, the autonomy of local economies can be vastly overridden. Foreign concerns can
buy up al! the major seed, water, land and other primary agricultural resources — converting
them to exported cash rather than local survival crops. This is likely to further unravel the
self-sufficiency of those cultures."
No studies have been done on the effects of GM foods on humans. The FDA blithely assumes
that the roods are the same as the original and requires no studies* There are EIGHT
different agencies in the U.S. regulating biotechnology under TWELVE different sets of laws.
NONE of the laws had biotechnology in mind when they were passed, as they are 40 to 50
years old" (Joseph Mercoia). This is a remarkable state of somnolence.
We in India have a particular responsibility as authors and guardians of a profoundly
different and alternative science and are witnesses to the life-enhancing effects of Ayurveda
and Yoga. Therefore, we have the mind, the perspective, the wherewithal, if you like, to
confront this creeping, deadly onslaught in al! of its guises. It will take a full, even heroic
effort and an uncommon co-operation that we are frankly strangers to. I can do no better
than quote Nathan B: ” We are confronted with what is undoubtedly the single most potent
technology the world has ever known - more powerful even than atomic energy. Yet it is
being released throughout our environment and deployed with superficial or no risk
assessments - as if no one needs to worry an iota about its unparalleled powers to harm life
as wc know it - and for all future generations".
I for one, will have no part in this:
" A year after...a massive spraying...there was not a sound of the song of bird..... What was
man doing to...our beautiful world...Who has made the decision that sets in motion...this everwidening wave of death."
From Rachaei Carson's "Silent Spring"
Aruna Kodrigues
Sunray Harvesters
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Bsotechnoiogy :s a Vita! Issue That Impacts Ass
©f Us
By Nathan B. Batalion
Published by Americans for Safe Food. Oneonta, N.Y.
Credits and acknowledgements to: peoplesearth.org & Mercola.com
"Genetic engineering, despite the precise sound of the name, is actually a very
messy process. ”
Michael Hanson phd
Overview
Writes Jeremy Rifkin, in the Biotech Century,
’’Our way of life is likely to be more fundamentally transformed in the next several decades
than in the previous one thousand years...Tens of thousands of novel transgenic bacteria,
viruses, plants and animals could be released into the Earth's ecosystems...Some of those
releases, however, could wreak havoc with the planet's biospheres."
In short these processes involve unparalleled risks. Voices from many sides echo this view.
Over two hundred scientists have signed a statement outlining the dangers of GM foods and
The Union of Concerned Scientists (a 1000 plus member organization with many Nobel
Laureates) has expressed similar reservations. The prestigious medical journal, Lancet,
issued a warning that GM foods should never have been allowed into the food chain. Britain's
Medical Association (the equivalent of the AMA) with 100,000 physicians and Germany’s with
325,000 issued similar statements. In a gathering of political representatives from over 130
nations, approximately 95% insisted on new precautionary approaches. The National
Academy of Science released a report that GM products introduce new allergens, toxins,
disruptive chemicals, soil-polluting ingredients, mutated species and unknown protein
combinations into our bodies and into the whole environment. This may also raise existing
allergens to new heights as well as reduce nutritional content. Even within the FDA,
prominent scientists have repeatedly expressed profound fears and reservations. Their voices
were muted not for cogent scientific reasons but due to political pressures from the
Bush administration to buttress the nascent biotech industry.
To counterbalance this, industry-employed scientists have signed a statement in
favour of genetically engineered foods. But are any of these scientists impartial? Writes the
New York Times (about a similar crisis involving genetic engineering and medical
applications),
"Academic scientists who lack industry ties have become as rare as giant pandas in the
wild...lawmakers, bioethics experts and federal regulators are troubled that so many
researchers have a financial stake [via stock options or patent participation] ... The fear is
that the lure of profit could color scientific integrity, promoting researchers to withhold
information about potentially dangerous side-effects."
Looked at from outside of commercial interests, the perils are multi-dimensional. They
include the creation of new "transgenic" life forms - organisms that cross unnatural gene
lines (such as tomato seed genes crossed with fish genes) - and that have unpredictable
behavior or replicate themselves out of control in the wild. This can happen, without warning,
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inside of our bodies creating an unpredictable chain reaction. A four-year study at the
University of Jena in Germany conducted by Hans-Hinrich Kaatz revealed that bees ingesting
poiien from transgenic rapeseed had bacteria in their gut with modified genes. This is called
a "horizontal gene transfer." Commonly found bacteria and microorganisms in the human gut
help maintain a healthy intestinal flora. These, however, can be mutated.
Mutations may be able to travel internally to other cells, tissue systems and organs
throughout ths humdn body.
Not to be underestimated, the potential domino effect of internal and external genetic
pollution can make the substance of science-fiction horror movies become terrible realities in
the future. The same is true for the bacteria that maintain the health of our soil - and are
vitally necessary for all forms of farming - in fact tor human sustenance and survival.
Without factoring in biotechnology, milder forms of controlling nature have gravitated
toward restrictive 'monocroping'. In the past 50 years, this underlies the disappearance of
approximately 95% of all native grains, beans, nuts, fruits, and vegetable varieties in the
United States. GM monoculture, however, can lead to yet greater harm. Monsanto, for
exampie, set a goal of converting 100% of ail US soy crops to Roundup Ready strains by the
year 2000. If effected, this plan would have threatened the biodiversity and resilience of all
future soy farming practices. Monsanto laid out similar strategies for corn, cotton, wheat and
rice. This represents a deep misunderstanding of how seeds interact, adapt and change with
the living world of nature.
Condensed Summary of Hazards
This book reviews and disputes the industry claims that GM foods are the equivalent of
ordinary foods not requiring labelling. It offers an informative list of at least 50 hazards,
problems and dangers. The iist includes easily referred to sections on health, environment,
farming practices, economic/political/social implications, and issues of freedom of choice.
There is a concluding review of inner concerns — philosophical, spiritual and religious issues
involving "deep ecology” -- or our overall way of relating to nature.
There is aiso a deeper philosophical discussion of how the "good science" of biotechnology
can turn out to be thano-technology (thano means "death"). When pesticides were first
introduced, they aiso were heralded as absolutely safe and a miracle cure for farmers. Only
decades later did the technology reveal its lethal implications.
This summan/ is necessarily restrictive and therefore includes those impacts which are most
likely to raise readers' consciousness, specifically issues of particular concern to India and
motivate them to refer to the original document
Health
" Recombinant DNA technology faces our society with problems unprecedented not only in
the history of science, but of life on Earth. It places in human hands the capacity' to redesign
living organisms, the products of three billion years of evolution.
Such intervention must not be confused with previous intrusions upon the natural order of
living oiganisms: animal and plant bleeding...All the earlier procedures worked within single
or closely related species...Our morality up to now has been to go ahead without
restriction to learn ail that we can about nature. Restructuring nature was not part of
the bargain...this direction may be not only unwise, but dangerous. Potentially, it could breed
new animai and piant diseases, new sources of cancer, novei epidemics".
Dr. George Wald: Nobel Laureate in Medicine, 1967
Higgins Professor of Biology, Harvard University
Direct Cancer and Degenerative Disease Links
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Tn 1994, fda approver! Monsanto's rBGH, a genetically produced growth hormone, for
injection into dairy cows — even though scientists warned the resulting increase of IGF-1, a
potent cnemicai hormone, is linked to 400 to 500 percent higher risks of human breast,
prostate, and colon cancer.
Canada, the European Union, Australia and New Zealand have banned rBGR. The UN's Codex
Alimentarius. an international health standards setting body, refused to certify rBGH as safe.
Yet Monsanto continues to market this product in the US. Several other GM approved
products involve herbicides that are commonly known carcinogens - bromoxynil used on
transgenic cotton and Monsanto's Roundup or glufonsinate used on GM soybeans, corn, and
CdHOid.
The real impact of cancer cannot be revealed by a handful of stringent experiments that
isolate just a few controlled factors or chemicals at a time. Rather al! of nature is a
testing ground. Scientists a few years ago were startled that a random combination of
chemicals (mostly pesticides) caused 1000 times more cancer than the sum of the individual
chemicals indicated in separate tests. Cancer now inflicts one out of two men and one out
ViFai esFud Bacteria! Iiiil^SS
Viruses can mix with genes of other viruses and retroviruses such as HIV. This can give rise
to more deadly viruses — at rates higher than previously thought. One study showed that
gene mixing occurred in viruses in just eight weeks (Kleiner, 1997).
Antibiotic Threat - Via Miik
Cows injected with rBGH have a much higher level of udder infections and require more
antibiotics. This leaves unacceptable levels of antibiotic residues in the milk. Scientists have
warned of public health hazards due to growing antibiotic resistance.
Srscrsssscf rood Alisrcsiss
The loss of biodiversity in our food supply has grown in parallel with the increase in food
allergies. This can be explained as follows: the human body is not a machine-like
"something" that can be fed assembiy line, carbon copy foods. 'We eat for nourishment and
vitality. What is alive interacts or changes with its environment.
Unnaturalfsameness, required for patenting of genetic foods , are "dead" qualities.
Frequently, foods we eat and crave are precisely those testing positive for food allergies.
Cells in our body recognize this lack of vitality, producing antibodies and white cells in
response.
This is analogous to our brain's cells recognizing and rejecting mechanically repeated
thoughts, oi thinking "like a bioken record." Intuitively our body cells and the overall
immune system seem to reject excess homogeneity.
Interior Toxins
"Pesticidal foods" have genes that produce a toxic pesticide inside the food's cells. This
represents the first time "ceii-interior toxicity" is being sold for human consumption.
There is little knowledge of the potential long-term health impacts.
Unnatural Foods
Recently, Monsanto announced it had found "unexpected gene fragments in their Roundup
Ready soybeans. It is well known that modified proteins exist in GE foods, new proteins
never before eaten by humanity. In 1992, Dr. Louis j. Pribyi of the FDA's Microbiology Group
warned (in an internal memo uncovered in a lawsuit filed) that there is "a profound
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difference between the types of expected, effects from traditional breeding and genetic
engineering."
He also addressed industry ciaims of no "pleiotropic" (unintended and/or uncontrolled)
effects, i his was t/re basis for the industry position that GM foods are "equivalent" to regular
foods, thus requiring no testing or regulation.
Environment
"Genetic Engineering is often justified as a human technology., one that feeds more people
with better food. Nothing could be further from the truth. With ver/ few exceptions, the
whole point of genetic engineering is to increase sales of chemicals and bio
engineered products to dependent farmers.”
Ddvid Ehrenfield: Professor of Biology, Rutgers University
Toxicity to Soil
The industry marketing pitch to the public is that bio-engineered seeds and plants will help
rhe environment by reducing toxic herbicide/pesticide use. Isolated exampies are given, but
the overall reality is exactly opposite.
The majority of GM agricultural products are developed specifically for toxin-resistance,
namely foi higher doses of herbicides/ pesticides sold by the largest producer companies
Monsanto, Dupont ivovans, Dow, tsayer, Ciba-Geigy, Hoescht, AgroEvo, and Rhone-Poulenc.
Also the majority of research for future products involves transgenic strains for increased
chemical resistance. Scientists predict herbicide use will triple as a result of GM products.
Furthermore, the problem with evolving only genetically cloned and thus carbon-copy seeds
and plants is that historically, extreme monoculture has led to a loss of adaptive survival
means — or where deadly plant infections have spread like wildfire, like the Irish potato
blight of the 19cn century. As a separate issue, according to the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service, Monsanto's Roundup already threatens 74 endangered species in the United
States, it attacks photosynthesis in plants non-specifically -- their ouintessential, lifegiving way to process si^niignt.
Roundup is a human as well as environmental poison. According to a study at the University
of California, glyphosphate (the active ingredient of Roundup) was the third leading cause of
farm worker illnesses. At least 14 persons have died from ingesting Roundup. These cases
involved mostly individuals intentionally taking this poison to commit suicide in Japan and
Taiwan, From this we know that the killing dose is so small it can be put on a fingertip (0.4
cubic centimeters). Monsanto, however, proposes a universal distribution of this lethal
substance in our food chain!. Al! of this is not shocking, given Monsanto’s history as
the company that first distributed PCBs and vouched for their safety.
So?? Sterii!tv snd Pollution
Tn Oregon, scientists found GM bacterium (klebsiella planticola) meant to break down wood
chips, corn stalks and lumber wastes to produce ethanol, with the post-process waste to be
used as compost, rendered the soii steriie. It killed essential soil nuliients, robbing the
soil of nitrogen, and killed nitrogen-captunng fungi.
c por
It has been shown that genetically modified Bt endotoxin remains in the soil at least 18
months (according to Marc Lappe and Britt Bailey) and can be transported to wild plants
creating superweeds, resistant to butterfly, moth, and beetle pests, that can potentially
disturb the baian.ee of nature. In effect genetic materials migrate to the weeds they
oi’e meal'll iu COiatFOi.
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GciAotists suspACt that Monsanto's wheat will hybridize with goat grass, creating an
Destruction of Forest Life
GM trees or "supertrees" are being developed that can be sprayed from the air to kill literally
al! of surrounding life, except the GM trees. There is an attempt underway to transform
international forestry by introducing multiple species of such trees.
The trees themselves are often sterile and flowerless. This is in contrast to rainforests
teaming with life, where a single tree can host thousands of unique species of insects, fungi,
mammals and birds in an interconnected ecosphere. This kind of development has been
called "death-engineering" talhei than "life-" or "bio-engineering."
More ominously, pollen from such trees, because of their height, has travelled as much as
400 miles or 600 kilometers -- roughly one-fifth of the distance across the U.S. Monsanto
has developed plans with the New Zealand Forest Research Agency to create still more lethal
tree plantations. These super deadly trees are non-flowering, herbicide-resistant, and
with leaves exuding toxic chemicals to kill caterpillars and other surrounding
insects, destroying the whotesais ecology of forest !sfe.
Genetic Pciiuiion and Disturbance of Nature's Boundaries
Genetic engineers aroue that their creations are no different than crossbreeding. However,
natural boundaries are violated by crossing animals with plants; strawberries with fish,
grains, nuts, seeds; arid legumes with bacteria, viruses, and fungi — or human genes with
swine.
Carrying GM pollen by wind, rain, birds, bees, insects, fungus, bacteria, the entire chain of
life becomes involved. Once released, unlike chemical pollution, there is no cleanup or
recall possible. —wild honey was found to be contaminated. This means that bees are
likely to pollinate organic plants and trees with transgenic elements. Even falling
ipavAs can dramatically affect the genetic heritage of soil bacteria. The major difference
between chemical pollution and genetic pollution is that the former eventually is dismantled
or decays, while the latter can reproduce itself forever in the wild.
Ansmal Abuse
Pig number 6706 was supposed to be a "superpig." It was implanted with a gene to become
a technological wonder. But It eventually became a "supercripple" full of arthritis, cross-eyed,
ana couia barely stand up with its mutated body. Some of these mutations seem to come
right out of Greek mythology, such as a sheep-goat with faces and horns of a goat and
the lower body of a sheep. GM products, in general, allow companies to own the
rights to create, direct, and orchestrate the evolution of animals.
Unpredictable Consequences of a Gunshot
Approach DMA fragments are blasted past a cell's membrane with a "gene gun" shooting in
foreign genetic materials in a random, unpredictable way.
According to Dr. Richard Lacey, a medical microbiologist at the University of Leeds, who
predicted mad cow disease, "wedging foreign genetic material in an essentially random
manner...causes some degree of disruption...It is impossible to predict what specific problems
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Radical Change in Diet; in Economics and Ownership
Humanity has evolved for thousands of years by adapting gradually to its natural
enviionment -- including naluie's foods. Within just three years a fundamental
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transformation of the human diet has occurred. This was made possible by massive
consolidations arriong agri-business. The concentrati on is staggering. The monopolisation oi
food production is seeing rhe demise of the family-owned farm and rhe impiications for
farming practice and biodiversity are dire.
ssn companies now own about 4‘_" percent of ail U.S. seed production and sales, ihe
Biotech industry especially targeted corn arid soy. the most commonly eaten and lucrative
ingredients in processed foods. Monsanto and Novartis, through consolidations, became the
second and third largest seed companies in the world. Again within three years, the
majority of soybeans and one-third of all corn in the US are now grown with seeds
itidnuaicu by the biotech firms.
Wheat and rice are next in line.
In 2002, Monsanto plans to introduce a "Roundup” (the name of its leading herbicide)
resistant wheat strain. The current result is that approximately bwo-thircs of all processed
foods in the US already contain GM ingredients - and this is projected to rise to 90 percent
within four years according to industry ciaims. In short, the human diet, from aimost
evsrv front, ss feemg radscally changed with little OF FsO k“iu“JiSduG of the long-term
health Or O”V!?*OF:EYJOFpTS? imnsrrc;
National farming associations see the dwindling of price competition and fewer distribution
outlets as disfavoring and threatening the small family farm. Average annua! income per
farm has plummeted throughout the last decade. Almost a Quarter of all farm-operating
families live below the poverty level, twice the national average, and most seek income from
outside the farm to survive. A similar pattern is developing in Europe.
If food production is monopolized, the future of that supply becomes dependent on
the decisions of a few companies and the viabisitv of their seed stocks. Like the
exaFiipie oT Perii, tiiere are orsSy a few remairiing pockets of diverse seed stocks to
insure the long-term resilience of the world’s stapie foods.
Al! of them are in the Third World. Food scientists indicate that if these indigenous
territories are disturbed bxz biotech's advance, the long-term vitality of al! of the world's food
Supply is endangered.
One of the most misleading hopes raised by GM technology firms is that they will solve the
wnrld's hunger. Some high technology agriculture does offer higher single crop yields. Rut
organic farming techniques, with many different seeds interplanted between rows,
generaiiy offer higher per acre yields. This applies best to the family farm, which feeds
the majority of the Third World. It differs from the large-scale, monocrop
mm? orod’jction of ind’istriaiized nations.
Tlia i1iqrketsuy of GM foods augaiients the centre
and smali-farm declining)
trend sn the uS, as wen as on an international level. For example, two bioengineering
firms have announced a GM vanilla plant where vanilla can he grown in vats at a lower cost,
and which could eliminate the livelihood of the world's 100,000 vanilla farmers — most
of whoiii are on the islands of Madagascar, Reuaisoii ano Comoros.
Other firms are developing bioengineered fructose, besides chemical sugar substitutes,
that threatens, according to a Dutch study, 1 million farmers in the Third World.
Losing Natural Pesticides
Organic farmers have long used ”Bt" (a naturally occurring pesticidal bacterium, Bacillus
thuringiensis) as an invaluable farming aide. It is administered at only certain times, and
then sparingly, in a diluted form. This harms only the target insects that bite the plant. Also
in that diluted form, it quickly degrades in the soil.
Sunray harvesters 3*“ December, 2002 email: sunrayjiarvesters@vsnl.net
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Ry contrast. .js>nptica'!y
Rt corn, potatoes and cotton, together making up
roughly one-third of UG GM crops, all exude this natural pesticide, pervasively
impacting entire fields over the entire life span of crops. As an overaii resuit, agricultural
biologists predict this will lead to the destruction of one of organic farming's most
irnnortant tools. It “'ill make >t essentia!!v useless.
Lowei Yields and Muie Pesticides Used Vvith RR Seeds
Contrary' to claims, a Rodale study shows that the best of organic farming techniques —
using rich nature! compost -- can produce higher drought resistance as well as higher
yielding plants than current technological attempts.---- Roundup Ready soybeans actually
used two to five times more pounds of herbicides per acre than conventional soybeans
sprayed with other low-dose pesticides.
Ts•'!*'!!?'!r Tochno^ogy =«« "Trsitor !"ochno!orjy
Plants ara boino Qanatically produced with no annual replenishing Oi perennial seeds so
farmers wii! become wholly dependent on the seed provider. Traitor technologies
control the stages or life cycles of plants (when a plant will leaf, flower, and bear fruit). This
forces the farmer to use certain triggering chemicals if he is to yield a harvest — again
causing much deepei ieveis of economic dependence. These technologies aie being
developed ana patented at a runous pace.
Sunray harvesters 3111 December, 2002 email: sunray_harvesters^,vsnl.net
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ALAMES - Asociacion Latinoamericana de Medicina Social
URGENT
WMEBVHIMPRESS RELEASE!
“HEALTH
FOR ALL IS NECESSARY AND IS POSSIBLE”-
HEALTH MOVEMENTS PLEDGE THEIR SOLIDARITY TO SOCIAL
MOVEMENTS.
Porto Alegre (Brazil) ; 20th January 2003: Health movements from all over the world
pledged their unflinching solidarity to the social movements, being galvanised through
the World Social Forum (WSF).
During the inaugural day of the 2nd International Forum for the Advocacy of People’s
Health as an Essential Human Need (popularly known as the Health Forum),
participants -varying from health workers, trade unionists, representatives from the
Landless People's Movement, peace activists and journalists- reiterated their demand
for Health for all NOW I
The 2no Health Forum came down heavily on the neo-liberal policies promoted by the
World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) that has destroyed the public health
system in many developing countries. A cross-section of the speakers, representing
people-based health movements and other civil society initiatives gave a blow-by-blow
account of the negative impacts of Globalisation, Liberalisation and Privatisation.
Health forum is an initiative to bring together organisations and movements engaged in
creating a democratic, socially just, and sustainable world.
Presentations from Argentina, Brazil, India, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Venezuela and other
countries had the same story to say- IMF and the World Bank policies are bad for health.
" Reject the unfair rule of the World Bank and IMF. Stay away from them,” echoed the
speakers and participants.
The increase in the cost of health care even in developed countries like the USA came
under scrutiny. ‘‘The spiralling cost of health care has put many people out of safety nets
and this has lead to worrying trends. This is bad for health”, the forum said.
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This forum is organized by a large number of social movements and Non Governmental
organizations like the Asociacion Latinoamericana de medicina social (AL.AMES- the
Latin American Association of Social Medicine), People’s Health Movement,
International People’s Health Council and the International Association of Health Policy.
This three-days forum that began in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre today will
deliberate about the negative impacts of the neo-liberal policies on health, trade and
finance. The Health forum is expected to synergise and strengthen the ongoing struggle
against globalisation and unjust policies advocated by the World Bank and IMF. Further,
it is expected to provide a platform for exchange of ideas to develop alternatives and
people-centric solutions
The Health forum is being timed just before the 3rd WSF, expected to begin here on 23rd
January 2003. WSF has become an annual event that has challenged the Brettonwoods
institutions - World Bank and the IMF.
This social gathering attains importance when serious questions are being raised about
the sense of direction of the World Health Organization. A section of the civil society
members argue that WHO, the top UN organization dealing with health has miserably
failed to address the health needs of the poor. “The World Bank, IMF and other financial
institutions are directing the WHO. This has already resulted in a crisis in health situation
in most parts of the world. Efforts are required to reverse this trend" says a recent PHM
communique.
Amit Sengupta, People’s health Movement
Maria Hamlin Zuniga, International People’s Health Council
Armando De Negri Filho, Asociacion Latinoamericana de medicina social
+++++++++++++++++
For media enquiries +++++++++++++++++++++++
Porto Alegre, Brazil (19,h till 28th Jan2003):
Ph (M):+55 51811 64082 - Dr. Unnikrishnan PV
(E-mail: unnikru@yahoo.com : Ph: +91 98450 91319)
London: Andrew Chetley, London : +44 20 7539 1591
chetley.a@healthlink.org.uk
Thailand: Satya Sivaraman (E-mail: satyasagar@yahoo.com )
" 'I IMJ
1'0 DO A Rl-Al ITY CHECK and ...egre, Brazil : 18th January 2003)
Subject: ” TIME TO DO A REALITY CHECK and ADDRESS THE HEALTH NEEDS OF
THE POOR"- Press Release from People's Health Movement (Porto alegre, Brazil :
1 Sth January 2003)
Date: Sun. 19 Jan 2003 19:46:38 -0800
From: "UNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr)" <unnikru@yahoo.com>
To: "PHA Global" <pha-exchange@kabissa.org>, <PHA-Europe@egroups.com>,
<pha-ncc@yahoogroups.com>
CC: "nand" <nand@nand.org>, <unnikru@yahoo.com>,
"Andrew Chetley" <chetley.a@healthlink.org.uk>,
"Community Health Cell" <sochara@vsnl.com>, <gk@citechco.nel>,
<pha_gk@citechco.net>
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PRESS RELEASE
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“TIME TO DO A REALITY CHECK and ADDRESS THE
HEALTH NEEDS OF THE POOR” — people’s health movement
and INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE’S HEALTH COUNCIL to urge the candidates for the WHO
DG’s post during a live public debate.
Porto Alegre (Brazil), Bangalore (India) & Geneva ; 18th January 2003: “It is time to do a reality
check and address the health needs of the poor” is the key message from the People's Health
Movement (PHM) and the International People’s Health Council (IPHC) to the candidates for the
top UN health job in the world- the Director General of the World Health Organization.
Thousands of people from various walks of life -like health workers, health activists and policy
makers- from all over the world are expected to participate in an unique public dialogue with
candidates for the post of the Director General of the World Health Organization, first such event
organised by leading civil society organizations. The candidates for this heavy weight UN post
includes the Prime Minister of Mozambique, health minister of Mexico, head of a UN organization,
top medical professionals and others.
“This is a unique opportunity for health ministers, civil society organizations and others with an
interest in health to ask candidates to address publicly the critical issues in global health today",
said Andrew Chetley, Director of Exchange - a networking and learning programme that promotes
effective health communication.
PHM, IPHC and a broad coalition involving more than 300 civil society organizations have linked up
to co-sponsor this event that will take place from 14.00 to 16.00 GMT on 19th January 2003.
Interactive Health Network's World Health Channel is the organizer of this event with financial
assistance coming from the UK-based Exchange programme and the Geneva-based NGO
(non-governmental organization) Forum for Health.
The WHO Executive Board meets the week following this crucial debate. The Board will nominate a
single candidate for approval by vote of all the WHO's 192 member states at its assembly in May
2003.
This public debate attains importance when serious questions are being raised about the sense of
direction of the World Health Organization. A section of the civil society members argue that WHO,
the top UN organization dealing with health has miserably failed to address the health needs of the
poor. In a recent communication, PHM and IPHC reminded WHO that every 24 hours over 30,000
) 03 12:20 PM
" T!\y: TO DO A REALITY CHECK and ...egre, Brazil : 18th January 2003)
children die world wide from preventable diseases.
"If WHO, UNICEF, other UN organizations and the governments could revive the concept and
strategies of Alma Ata. most (if not all) of these deaths could be prevented and health for all could
be made a reality’ said Maria Hamlin Zuniga of PHM and IPHC. Alma Ata declaration of 1978 is a
historic promise by the WHO that promised health for all by 2000.
PHM and IPHC delegates are assembled at Porto Alegre, Brazil for the second Health Forum to be
held on 20^ and 21st January 2003 timed just before the 3r^ World Social Forum (22nc^ to 28tfl,
January 2003). Participants are expected to deliberate the negative impact of globalisation and
neo-liberal policies on health and the right of all people to health.
The videoconference will be broadcast on the Internet - log into www.ihn.info to either listen (low
bandwidth) or view (high bandwidth) the event. A facility on the website will enable people to e-mail
questions directly to the event in Geneva. The videoconference will also be broadcast globally via
the WorldSpace satellite system - a unique technology that allows access to areas of the world with
no Internet access or telecommunications infrastructure and will be rebroadcast throughout Brazil
by Canal Saude.
The candidates will be asked a series of questions from audiences in Geneva and around the world.
International links will include the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine and the Medical Research
Council in South Africa, the World Bank Institute and the George Washington University in the USA,
Canal Saude (Health Channel) in Brazil, and health experts in Ethiopia, India, Japan and Sweden.
Maria Hamlin Zuniga
People's Health Movement
Dr. Hugo leu Peren
International People’s Health Council
For media enquiries :
Porto Alegre, Brazil (19^ till 28th Jan2003): Dr. Unnikrishnan PV
Ph (M): +55 51811 64082
(E-mail: unnikru@yahoo.com)
London: Andrew Chetley, London : +44 20 7539 1591
chetley.a@healthlink.org uk
Thailand: Satya Sivaraman (E-mail: satyasagar@yahoo.com)
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PHM
Secretariat:
Gonoshasthaya
Kendra,
PO
Mirzanagar,
1344
Savar,
BANGLADESH.
Tel: 880-2-770 8316; fax: 880-2-770 8317 email:
gksavar@citechco.net : www.phmovement.org
IPHC : Apartado # -6152, Managua, Nicaragua (telfax; (505) 266
2225
E-mail: info@iphcglobal.org :
www.iphcglobal.org
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PHM_Stesring_Group_02-03 <PHM_Steering_Group_02-03@yahoogroups.com>;
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[PHM_Sieering_Group_02-03] RV: Colin Powell, the UN and Iraq
----- Mensaje original----De: The Nation Magazine [mailto:emaiination@thenation.coml
Enviado el: jueves, 06 de febrero de 2003 22:04
Para: The Nation Magazine
Asunto: Colin Powell, the UN and Iraq
032P EE m2 i! Nation Subscriber
In hi^ rsnort to ths UN x/ostorc!2v Colin Powol! for his nurnosos msds
good use of the material he had. He demonstrated that Saddam was defying
the United Nations. He described dubious patterns of behavior. But he
shared no hard data confirming Iraq has evil goods in dangerous supplies
or that an al Qaeda-Iraq link actually exists. Such a presentation should
have been the start of a debate over what to do, rather than the
initiation of an endgame that seems predetermined.
For more, read David Corn's Capital Games
http://www.thenation.com/capitalqames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=371
Furthermore, as Phyllis Bennis notes in a Nation web report, even if
everything Foweii said was true, there is simply not enough evidence to
justify war. There is no evidence of Iraq posing an imminent threat, no
evidence of containment not working. Powell is asking us to go to war on
extremely dubious grounds
For more, read Powell's UN Presentation by Phyllis Bennis
http://www.thenatiori.com/doc.rnhtml?i=20030217&s=p bennis
The bottom-line, as Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel asserted in an
"Opposing view" editorial in today's edition of USA Today, is that
pre-omptive war against Iraq-or any nation-lacks legitimacy, morality
and sense.
Pl-/ M
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Read this comment in iis entirety:
httn://www. thenation.com/doc. mhtml?i=20030224&s=kvh
And check out ActNow. the Nation's activist weblog, for a range of ways
you can register your voice against an invasion of Iraq:
http:/lwww.thenation.com/actnow
2/7/03
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rvl_Steerina_Group_02-031 Breaking NEW...Y 2004....(press release ian 26th 2004)
Subject: [PHM_Stccring_Group_02-03] Breaking NEWS
PORTO ALEGRE (BRAZIL) TO
HOST THE PEOPLE'S HEALTH ASSEMBLY- 2 IN JULY 2004....(press release jan
26th 2004)
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 23:46:39 -0800
From: "UNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr)" <unnikru@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: PHM_Steering_Group_02-03@yahoogroups.com
To: <PnM_Stcering_Gr0up_O2-O3@yahoogioups.com>,
"IPHCWORLD WIDEY" <IPIICWORLDWIDE@yahoogroups.com>
Dear friends
Please forward it to your media contacts, worldwide. You may use the attachment to print and fax.
Rcosrds
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Subject:
Breaking NEWS
PORTO ALEGRE (BRAZIL) TO HOST THE PEOPLE'S HEALTH ASSEMBLY- 2
jjkiULY 2004....(press release jan 26th 2004)
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HEALTH MOVEMENTS TO AMPLIFY THEIR FIGHT FOR HEALTH FOR ALL NOW !
Porto Alegre (Brazil); 26
January 2003: Porto Alegre, the Brazilian city that has become a venue for
pro-justice movements for the past few years through the World Social Forums, is all sei to host another
global event - the People’s Health Assembly-2 (PHA-2). This was announced here by a cross section of the
representatives of the health movement like the People's Health Movement (PHM), International People's
Health Council (IPHC) and Asociacion Latinoamericana de Medicina Social (ALAMES).
PHA-2, scheduled for July 2004, is e,xpected to generate massive mobilisation world wide and will bring
hundreds of grass root / village health workers, health activists, medical professionals, leading voluntary
agencies, media and other civil society members together to Porto Alegre. The event will strengthen the
health movement worldwide, especially in Latin America and amplify the struggle for Health for all Now!
L*
1/27/03 10:06 AM
-vi_Stcering_Group_02-03| Breaking NEV* ...\ 2004....(press release jan 26th 2004)
In a crucial decision taken during the ongoing World Social Forum and the Health Forum (that was held in this
city earlier this week), the health activists reiterated their commitment to fight for a just world- a world that
they feel should reduce the existing gap between the rich and the poor, the sick and healthy, peace and
conflicts. "Health for all Now is our key demand. This means that we need to fight for this at various levels.
We will be using various strategies for this" said a spokesperson. Organizations and networks working on
health are putting efforts through a series of campaigns and other activities to call the global attention to
make health for all now a reality.
The decision to hold this global event (PHA-z) in this city in July 2004 comes at a crucial moment when the
health situation in the world is worsening. The first People’s Health Assembly (PHA) was held in a village
atmosphere in Savar, a piace located 30 kilometers away from Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The first
PHA, held in December 2000. was a historic moment for the health movement and galvanized thousands of
people in over 100 countries. Over 1500 representatives from nearly 100 countries assembled in Bangladesh
for the PHA.
The deliberations during the Health Forum and the World Social Forum came down heavily on the W'orld
Trade Organization (WTO), World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF). Presentations pointed
out how these trade and financial organizations have managed to shape the policies of the World Health
Organization (W'HO) and other UN bodies that once used to put health as the central theme.
Ape WTO, WB and the IMF have managed to put profit before people in institutions like the WHO" said a
FHM spokesperson. “This is bad for the health of the people, especially the poor. This trend must be stopped
and reversed and we are committed to fight for this,” he added, “in the next 24 hours, over 30,000 children will
die from preventable diseases on our planet earth, lives that the WHO promised to save through their Alma
Ata declaration (1978) that promised Health for all by the year 2000” says a recent communique from the
PHM.
The three days long Health Forum (2
International Forum for the Advocacy of People’s Health as an
Essential Human Need) also came out with "Final declaration of the
International Forum on the
defense of the hearth of the people” - a collective statement that calls for coilective strategies and
proposals. “It is necessary to build proposals and a process that will ensure a spirit of sharing and coilective
action at ail levels- grass roots, municipal, national level and at international levels. Efforts in the coming
months will culminate in Porto Alegre in July 2004 for the second People’s Health Assembly / First World
Forum on Health’ says the declaration
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4M_Steering_Group_02-03] Breaking NEW...Y 2004....(press release ian 26th 2004)
1/27/03 10:06 AM
The PHA-1 was a turning point in the history of the health movements word wide. For example, the
fI6
LM_Steering__Group_02-031 Breaking NEW...Y 2004... .(press release jan 26th 2004)
1/27/03 10:06 AM
People’s Health Movement (PHM) was launched during the PHA. The goal of the PHM is to
1/27/03 10:06 AM
>HM_$teerirlg_Group_02-031 Breaking NEW...Y 2C04....(press release jan 26th 2004)
re-establish health and equitable development as top priorities in local, national and international
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rrom:
To:
Sent"
Subject:
Community Health Ceii <socharaiajvsni com>
<hariprem<®eth. net>
Saturday, March 22 2003 OHC3 P?v1
ASF Reports from CHC
Dear Prem.
Greetings from People's Health Movement Secretariat at CHC, Bangalore!
Just returned after a hectic PHM - US tour with Zafarullah - thru several cities and
universities. Did you get enough for the newsletter? If not call over the weekend and I
can work on it eariy next week.
Best wishes from both of us,
Ravi & Thelma Narayan
PHM / CHC
Coiuiuuiuiy Health Cell
#367 "Srinivasa Nilaya"
1 Block. Iakkasanexa, 1 Block ICoramangala
Bangalore-560034
Jom tllC 'Tleslth for
rgrnnoign in tlgp 25 th anniversary year of the A1 m <> A_tG.
declaration visit ww.TheTviiiiionSignanireCampaign.org
pHr-l
3/24/03
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From:
To:
Sent:
Attach:
Subject:
Community Health Cell <sochara@vsnl com>
<hariprem@eth.net>
Thursday, March 06, 2003 CHC3 PM
ASF sidelights.jpg; Tobaccowrkshpreport-Asf-2003.doc; PHM-ASF_ Alma Ata workshop
report.doc; statement of concern-chc.doc; PHM forward.doc; ASFreflections.doc; chc’s ASF
feedback-final.doc; tobac-costatement_ASF.jpg
ASF Reports from CHC
Dear Prcm,
Greetings from Community Health Cell / PHM!
This js in continuation of our email to you of yesterday. Contacted Ravi and he. suggested forwarding
io you the following reports related to ASF meel:
1. ASF Sidelights
2. Statement issued by the participates of the "Workshop on Action Towards a Tobacco Free
World"
3. Action Towards a Tobacco Free World - report by Dr. Anant Bhan
4. Alma Ala Anniversary (78 - 200.3)
5. Feedback of the participants at the workshop "Taking the peoples health movement forward".
6. Asian Social Forum - a reflection by Dr. Anant Bhan
7. Collective statement of concern and demands.
8. Feedback of Community Health Cell on the Asian Social
I nere are transmitted herewith for your use. Kindly acknowledge receipt.
Thelma and Ravi inform that the meetings in the USA are going extremely well though very hectic.
With regards
Yours sincerely
cVlC' PH(1
CIIC-Bangalore
#367 "Srinivasa Nilaya"
1 Block Jakkasandra, 1 Block Koramangala
Bangalore-560034
Join the "Health for all, NOW" campaign in the 25th anniversary year of the Alma Ata
declaration visit www.DneMillionSignaliireCampaign.org
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3/6/03
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From:
To:
Cc:
Sent:
Subject:
PHM Secretariat <phmsec@touchtelindia.net>
UNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr) <unnikru@yahoo.com>; <satyasagar@yahoo.com>
Andy Rutherford-One World Action-U.K. <andy@oneworldaction.org >; Maria Hamlin ZunigaCISAS/IPHC-Nicaragua <iphc@cisas.org.ni>; Mira Shiva <mirashiva@yahoo.com>
Thursday, April 24, 2003 9:48 AM
Re: pha- media team's involvement for the WHA
Dear Satya and Unni,
Greetings from People's Health Movement Secretariat (Global) at CHC,
Bangalore!
Bpologies for the delay in writing to you from the PHM Secretariat about
your much needed participation in PHM Geneva events. Communication - lil has
been forwarded to both of you. Pleaes fill up the registration form and send
back as soon as possible. Additional formal invitations from Bangalore and
Geneva follow. Till then this is to confirm:
i. We need your presence as the PHM Media Group from 15th to 22nd May 2003
ii. I have requested PHM Geneva group to find low cost accommodation as
close to WCC , Palais as possible to facilitate media contact and
accessibility.
iii. The PHM Secretariat and partners will cover your travel and local
costs. As was done last year. Some air travel estimates would be helpful.
ty. We have included a section on contributions to press briefing by
participants in the form, to enhance contribution to your efforts.
v. Apologies for the delay but I had confirmed with Unni lelephonically
before he left and he was due to meet you soon after. I didn't realize that
jks visit to Bangkok got delayed.
\i. Looking forward to the excellent media support and process as always.
Please do write for any further clarifications. You can send out a joint
circular on media preparatory work to include in communication IV being
posted out on May 1st 2003.
vii. There are some progresses on the film funding but we shall discuss this
pU-ri
in Geneva. Since the whole time schedule may have to be changed.
------- -----H -rLc
Best wishes,
Ravi Narayan
Coordinator, People's Health Movement Secretariat(global)
CHC-Bangalore
#367 "Srinivasa Nilaya"
Jakkasandra 1st Main, I Block Koramangala
Bangalore-560034
Join the "Health for all, NOW" campaign in the 25th anniversary year of the
Alma Ata
declaration visit www.TheMi11ionSimatureCampaign.org
----- Original Message------
PH?’ Secretariat
From:
To:
Cc:
Sent:
Subject:
UNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr) <unnikru@yahoo.com>
Twendo Enterprises <twendo@zamtel.zm>
Mwajuma S. Masaiganah <eastafrica@phmovement.org>; <phmsec@touchtelindia.net>
Wednesday. April 23, 2003 10:49 PM
Re: PEOPLE'S HEALTH MOVEMENT COMMUNICATIONS WORKING GROUP.
Dear ZEKO .S.STEPHEN
Greetings from PHM I
Thanks for writing to us and showing interest to join the communication team.
PHM is a decentralised network, so is its communications team. The communications team in fact is a small
team of volunteers who step in as and when required .
I am marking a copy of this mail to Ms. Mwajuma S. Masaiganah, Africa facilitator of PHM and leading
spirit beitind the movement. I am sure Mwajuma will write to you to plan how your interest can be
channalised to synergise PHM activities, especially communication work.
Bhanks once again for writing.
Regards and in solidarity
Unit!
PS: Mwajuma, Please read teh original mail, pasted below.
ZEKO .S.STEPHEN
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dr. Unnikrishnan PV , India
E-mail: unnikru@vsni.com: Ph (m): +91 (0) 98450 91319
Read the latest on the campaign to stop the war at:
www.indiadisasters.org/iraq
---- Original Message
From: Twendo Enterprises
To: communications@phmovement.org
4h>ent: Tuesday. March 18, 2003 4:06 AM
j Subject: PEOPLE'S HEALTH MOVEMENT COMMUNICATIONS WORKING GROUP.
I wish to join a communications working group.
You can contact me on telephone No. 260-02-821446 Mansa,Zambia.
Yours
ZEKO .S.STEPHEN
4/23/03
PHM Secretariat
From:
To:
Co:
Sent:
Subject:
PHM Secretariat <phmsec@touchtelindia.net>
<satyasagar@yahoo.com>
UNNIKRISHNAN P.V.(Dr.) <unnikru@vsnl.com>; Andy Rutherford-One World Action-U.K.
<andy@oneworldaction.org >
Friday, April 25, 2003 6:09 PM
PHM Geneva 2003
Dear Satya
Greetings from People’s Health Movement Secretariat (Global) atCHC, Bangalore!
It was a great relief to know that inspite of my delayed invitation - you will be able to make it at least 19th to
22nd, which is the WHA sector of the 7 day PHM Geneva initiative. Thanks. I shall be in The Hague on 14th
Play for a meeting with Health Adviser of the Dutch Government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a dialogue
with PHM Netherlands friends. The latter will be hosted by Cordaid or one of the Hague NGOs. If you are
reaching Amsterdam a day earlier-we could meet. Also keep in touch about your programme.
I await the first media related
Saivo by both of you for the PHM Geneva media process. This will be
included in communication IV that will be posted to all participants, steering group and exchange on 1st May.
Best wishes,
PH rd
Ravi Narayan
6r-e.^-e vc
pHn
Ravi Narayan
Coordinator, People's Health Movement Secretariat(giobai)
^HC-Bangalore
#367 "Srinivasa Niiaya"
Jakkasandra 1st Main, I Block Koramangala
Bangalore-560034
Join the "Health for all, NOW" campaign in the 25th anniversary year of the Alma Ata
declaration visit www.TheMillionSignatureCampaiqn.org
2£i H
4/29/03
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From:
To:
Cc:
Sent:
Subject:
UNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr) <unnikru@yahoo.com>
Satya Sivaraman <satyasagar@yanoo.com>
<phmsec@touchtelindia.net>
Friday, April 25, 2003 4:44 AM
Re: PHM Geneva 2003/WHA
Dear Satya (copy to ravi)
Thanks for your message. I have just discussed this with Dr. Ravi Narayan.
I he actual WHA begins on 19th and continues till 21st/ 22nd. So our main action (on the media front) will be
on these three days.
So, even if you car. reach Geneva on 18th evening/ 19th , it will be OK. Please come.
Moreover, this may be the only occasion we will get to discuss the plight' future of the documentary film. I
hope you will be carrying your camera.
,avi has written to the organising team in Geneva to give both of us (and Ravi) accommodation in a central
piace. i his will help to ease the trouble we took last time I).
You will be receiving a formal invitation that will help you to process the Swiss visa.
You may have to make arrangements to get your Amsterdam-Geneva-Amsterdam tickets done, once you
receive the invitation . Please fill the form that was send by ravi and mail it to him and all the e-ids in Geneva
as he has suggested.
Regards
Unni
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dr. Unnikrishnan PV , India
E-mail: unnikru@vsnl.com: Ph (m): +91 (0) 93450 91319
Read the latest on the campaign to stop the war at:
www.indiadisasters.oro/iraq
h— Original Message —
Trcm: Satya Sivaraman <satyasaqar@yahoo.com>
To: UNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr) <unnikru@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday. April 23, 2003 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: PHM Geneva 2003 / WHA
> Dear Unni,
> I just founa out the dates of the PHM meeting in
> Geneva and there is a clash with my schedule in
> Amsterdam I! I am attending a meeting there between 15
> to 19 May and can come to Geneva only late on 19th May
> or20th morning. Please advice urgently if that will
> be OK ?
regards
Satya
p l-l
4/24/03
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PHM Secretariat
From:
To:
Cc:
Sent:
Subject
UNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr) <unnikru@yahoo.com>
<PHM_Steering_Group_02-03@yarioogroups.com>
Satya Sivaraman <satyasagar@yahoo.com>
Monday, April 23, 2003 11:19 PM
[PHM_Steering_Group_02-03J SARS- PHM response : suggesting a media release
Dear -riends
SARS seems to continue to remain as the headline, for the wrong reasons. Some of the news stories even
suggest anything- linking SARS with bio-weapon programme and so on.
However, the slow death of public health system that would have served as a "shock-absorber" to withstand
the tremors of such mass out breaks is not being highlighted. This may be a slip or by design.
While the governments and others may struggle to deal with it in their own way, it may be good idea for PHM
to issue a press statement
The statement may highlight some/ all of the following.
1) Facts about SARS. Possible response at the public health front.
2) A brief history of such“myste';ous out breaks' in the last 10 years- Ebolas, Plague, SARS etc.
3) The experience during the post Sep 11 attack when bio war was expected. Highlight the double standards
of US drug MNCs and their govt when it comes to a "possible bio attack in US" and a confirmed
killer epidemic in Asia/ Canada.
(Highlight how US govt was willing to compromise patent laws when they feel convenient Versus 3rd world
epidemics.
4) How the public health system has been crippled because of neo-liberal poiicies. What positive role a good
public health system would have played. (Here, we need facts and figures like how the fund allocation for
public health has dwindled in the last 10 to 12 years under WB and IMF regime.
•
jould some one volunteer to generate an opinion paper (maximum 1200 words and three small tables) and
end it to us.
We (Satya and myself) will generate a press release. We will also try to push the edited version of the same
in any news papers/ networks.
Please ccnot send us any press clippings. Please limit your paper to a maximum of 1200 words.
Looking forward to any volunteers to put together an opinion/ analysis paper (1200 words) on SARS latest by
Wednesday GMT 2 noon.
$ ft fth
In Solidarity
Unni and Satya
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dr. Unnikrishnan PV , India
E-mail: unnikru@vsnl.com: Ph (m): +91 (0) 98450 91319
Read the latest on the campaign to stop the war at :
www.indiadisasters.org/irag
—— p-N
4/28/03
PH-n
w
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From:
To:
Cc:
Sent:
Subject:
UNN1KRISHNAN PV (Dr) <unnikru@yahoo.com>
<PHM_Steering_Group_02-03@yanoogroups.com>
Satya Sivaraman <satyasagar@yahoo.com>
Monday, April 28, 2003 11:19 PM
[PHM_Steering_Group_02-03] SARS- PHM response : suggesting a media release
Dear i-riends
SARS seems to continue to remain as the headline, for the wrong reasons. Some of the news stories even
suggest anything- linking SARS with bio-weapon programme and so on.
However, the slow death of public health system that would have served as a "shock-absorber" to withstand
the tremors of such mass out breaks is not being highlighted. This may be a slip or by design.
While the governments and others may struggle to deal with it in their own way, it may be good idea for PHM
to issue a press statement.
The statement rnay highlight some/ all of the following.
1) Facts about SARS. Possible response at the public health front.
2) A brief history of such"mystenous out breaks' in the last 10 years- Ebolas, Plague, SARS etc.
3) The experience during the pest Sep 11 attack when bio war was expected. Highlight the double standaids
of US drug MNCs and their govt when it comes to a "possible bio attack in US" and a confirmed
killer epidemic in Asia/ Canada.
(Highlight how US govt was willing to compromise patent laws when they feel convenient Versus 3rd world
epidemics.
4) How the public health system has been crippled because of neo-liberal policies. What positive role a good
public health system would have played. (Here, we need facts and figures like how the fund allocation for
public health has dwindled in the last 10 to 12 years under WB and IMF regime.
Kould some one volunteer to generate an opinion paper (maximum 1200 words and three small tables) and
?er.d it to us.
We (Satya and myself) will generate a press release. We will also try to push the edited version of the same
in any news papers/ networks.
Please donot send us any press cuppings. Please limit your paper to a maximum of 1200 words.
Looking forward to any volunteers to put together an opinion/ analysis paper (1200 words) on SARS latest by
Wednesday GMT 2 noon.
In Solidarity
Unni and Satya
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dr. Unnikrishnan PV , India
E-mail: unnikru@vsnl.com: Ph (m): +91 (0) 98450 91319
Read the latest on the campaign to stop the war at:
www.indiadisasters.org/iraa
—— fN
4/28/03
PH-M
P’-'M Sec; etsriat________________________________________________________________________________
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PHM Secretariat <phmseo@iouchtelindia.net*
--PHM_Steering_Group_02-03@yahQogroups.com>; Claudio Schuftan <aviva@netnam.vn>
UNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr) <unnikru@yahoo.com>; Satya Sivaraman <satyasagar@yahoo.com>
Monday, April 23, 2003 4:13 PM
Regarding SARS
Deir Friends,
Greetings from tire PHl.i Secretariat(Global) at CHC. Bangalore!!!
In the context of rhe SARS epidemic and scare should PHM release a press release injecting ‘‘relevance”
I r than “scare” and “hjsteria” into the whole process. Ifso, any suggestions/volunteers to put their.
note together for the media team. We are meeting in Geneva soon as a group from all over the world
and it may be relevant to do so.
Best wishes.
Dr. Ravi Narayan
Eoordi tator, People s He iltl Movement Secretariat(global)
CHC-Ban galore
#367 “Srinivasa Nilaya"
Jakkasandra 1st Main, I Block Koramangala
Bangalore-56' ; 334
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declaration visit www.TheMillionSignatureCampaign.org
4/29/03
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Satya S.varaman <satyasagar@yahoo.com>
PHM Secretariat <phmsec@touchtelindia.net>
<un.nikru@yahoo.com>
Monday, April 28, 2003 9:40 AM
WHA 2003- PHM - participation form -Satya's details.doc
Re: PHM Geneva 2003
Dear Rati,
Please find attached my WHA participation form with
this message. If I can get a letter of invitation tliis
week it will be usefill io organise my Swiss visa in
time.
Bn another note, do you think PHM should issue a press
release about this BARS scare going on ? Do let me and
Unni know and we will organise something.
regards
Satya
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PARTICIPATION / REGISTRATION FORM
1. Name (as in Passport): SA! YANARAYAN SI VARAMAN
2. Nationality: Indian
3. Passport number and date to which it is valid
a. PASSPORT NUMBER: Z-1475522
b. VAUD TILL: 5 January 2009
4. Name of the institution to which you are affiliated : People’s health Movement
media team.
5.
Residential address: Currently located at: 129/16, Soi Potharam, T.Chang
Puak, A.Muang, Chiang Mai 50300, Thailand
6.
Fax number and email address
a. Fax; 66-53-213195
b. E-mail: satyasagar@yahoo.com
7.
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PHM Involvement (Mention in brief local, state, country, regional and international
involvement:
• Media co-ordination
® Production of media related material
TRAVEL DETAILS:
1.
Date and Mode of Arrival: On 19 th May by air.
2.
Date and Mode of departure: On 22nd May (by air)
3.
Accommodation requirements
□ Yes
: Please try to locate the media team (myself and P.V.Unnikrishnan)
in a central place, to ensure media facilitation. We schedule meetings with
journalists often during late evening hours.
Ill
WHA Registration as delegate?
IV
Interpretation needed al PHM meeting in WCC?
No
V
PARTICIPATION INVENTORY
Please tick the relevant item
Needed
. Do you wish io report on State/country/region circle / issue circle?
Present slides/CDs 'cassettes (mention names / themes
Pul up posters
! Distribute pamphlets/Ieaflests/booklets
Sell books
Contribute to Press/media briefing
VI
Any other comments and suggestions:
□ No
□ No
II No
□ No
□ No
LI Yes
PHM Geneva Events May 2003
PARTICIPATION / REGISTRATION FORM
Date: April 28nd, 2003
Place: Bangkok, Thailand
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UNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr) <unnikru@yahoo.com>
<phmsec@touchtelindia.net>
Monday, April 28, 2003 12:01 PM
Re: URGENT- Your name on PHM letterhead
Subject:
Dear Unni.
Please go ahead and put my name on the media list. No
problem (if there is a problem I will come and hide in
your house in Calicut'!')
Looking forward to seeing you here soon.
p H fl-
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Community Health Cell <sochara@vsnl.com>
Phm Office <phmsec@touchtelind;a.net>
Tuesday, April 29, 2003 12:06 PM
Fw: For Ravi: SARS- PHM response : media release
----- Original Message-----From: "claudio" <avjva@netnam.vn>
To: "Ravi" <sochara@vsnl.com~Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 6:57 PM
Subject: For Ravi: SARS- PHM response : media release
> To: "UNNIKRISHNANPV (Dr)" <unnikru@vahoo.conT
'■ Cc: "PHMsecretariat’’ <secretariat@phmr^ovement,org> BOUNCED!! ANY IDEA WHY?
Dear Urmi,
. • > The whole thing is news to me. Had not heard/seen any of this
before
> > sony, I just opened Ravi’s email after I wrote this.
> Altough I live here, am not qualified to write such a piece.
> > If nobody volunteers, 1 think it is still good for PHM to come out with
a
> > statement highlighting at least that:
pl/l'l-3/7/25
> > -SARS continues to remain a headline, in part, for the wrong reasons.
> > -The slow slip into oblivion of public health systems in 3rd w countlies
> > makes them ill-prepared to withstand such mass out breaks. The public
> .> health systems have been crippled because of neo-liberal policies.This
is
> > NOT being highlighted by the media, maybe by design or by ignorance.
-- > -Governments are left to deal with the epidemic with a diminished
> capability
> > the result of years of despondence following the pressures of IFIs to
cut
> > spending on social services, (the funds allocation for public health
has
> > dwindled in the last 10 to 12 years under WB and IMF regime). An
epidemic
4/29/03
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> is
a cruel rcmiaderin of such a cluonic neglect which will be paid in more
' > lives lost.
-Public health responses to SARS will be inadequate when if spreads to
■> > highly vulnerable countries (with sorrow health infrastructures).
' - Good public health systems are vital to confront the epidemic at a
time
> > when they are badly underfinanced.
>>
> > -PHM reminds readers that addressing the structural causes of Hie state
of
- t health in the developing world is the only way out not only to this and
> > other epidemics to com. but to deal with the unresolved issues of
endemic
> > diseases (mostly the so called diseases of poverty) as well.
> > Embelish this and you have a statement to start with. More info later,
we
' > write again....
V V V
> > hug
> > Clau
4/29/03
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Subject:
hariprem <hariprem@eth.net>
<gkasavar@citechco.net>; <phmsec@touchtelindia.net>
Thursday, May 01, 2003 9:48 PM
Draft of News brief
Dear QAsern, dear Ravi,
Did you receive the draft in good condition? Do you want any rewriting?
Regards
Prem
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PHM Secretariat <phmsec@touchtelindia.net>
Thursday, May 01, 2003 5:59 PM
Rs: Fw: PHA-Exchange> The SARS farce?
Dear Ravi.
Thanks so much for the appreciation. The entire SARS
bank- around me here in Thailand finally provoked me
to write what I did !
regards
Satya
PS: I will send you details of my travel to Amsterdam,
as soon as I finalise the details.
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Subject:
PHM
Dear Prem.
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.......
c-orrcir-aons ru-w ynu> mere, irtt “omartr ft-w you- anrf <?asem hus airtemoon.
Tha-iks for ihc etYbrt.
RrH X'anr an
People's Health Movoment Secretariat(glol il)
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<hariprem@eth.net>
Friday, May 02, 2003 2:15 PM
PHM
pear Prem,
I am just halfway through the draft. Just a few small additions /
corrections here and there. Will forward it to you and Qasem this afternoon.
Thanks for the effort.
Best wishes,
Dr. Ravi Narayan
Coordinator, People's Health Movement Sccretariat(global)
CHC-Bangalore
-;367 "Srinivasa Nilaya"
Jakkasandra 1st Main, I Block Koramangala
Bangalore-560034
Join rhe "Health for all, NOW” campaign in the 25th anniversary year of the
Alma Ata
declaration visit www.TlwMillionSignatureCampaign.org
— Original Message
From: haripreir. -hariprem@,eth.net
To: gkasavar@citechco.net: : phmsec@touchtelindia.net:Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 9:48 PM
Subject: Draft of Newsbrief
'> Dear QAsem. dear Ravi,
Did you receive the draft in good condition? Do you want any rewriting?
Regards
Prem
pUWI-
_________________________
From: eon ' M Secretariat <phms£c@touchtelindia iet>
To:
<hariprem@eth.net>: <gksavar@citechco.net>
Sent:
Friday Vav 02 2003 6:09 PM
Attach:
Subject;
\e? s brief "ina‘_Ravi 2-5-03.doc
Re; Xewsbrief
Dear Prem
Qasem.
Greetings from the PHM Secretariat al CHC Bangalore!!'!
I have gone through the newsbrief and made some small modifications. See in
Red.
1. It covers the important areas but we have left PHM in GFHR WABA in
November 2002; PHM in WSF in January 2003 and the PHM Workshops in East
Africa (Kenya. Uganda. Tanzania) and in USA and Sri Lanka recently. Should
we ju st. nnoi n se th sse as contents of the next brief and write io Maria,
Mwajuma, Sarah and Vinya to send a shorter summary of the events for the
next News brief.
2.
Since HAI-AP meeting and PHM Geneva 2003 are after all these events
we can introduce them in this news briefunder a Stop Press
Section as a box item.
3. If there is space and .he idea suggested of an insert is acceptable then
I can send you short items on some of the above. There was also a
collective statement on Health from WSF 2003 (see Maria's report that was
circulated from there). I leave on 8th - so I have to attend to anything
more by 6th at least.
4. Maria's WSF report and Mwajuma's Africa report was circulated in PHA
Exchange. If necessary either of you can take some extracts from them
directly since time is a constraint.
5. Send the news brief through the Bangladesh team and at least 200-300
Charters and Testimonies and PHA posters.
All the best towards News brief No------ ?
^hould we inform a small newsbrief editorial team during our 17th meeting so
that there is a larger representative sample not just the tlu ee of us from
South Asia.
Best Wishes,
Dr. Ravi Narayan
Coordinator, People's Health Movement Secretariat(global)
CHC-Bangalore
-367 "Srinivasa Nilaya"
Jakkasandra 1st Main, I Block Koramangala
Bangalore-560034
Join the “Health for all, NOW" campaign in the 25th anniversary year of the
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Friday, May 02. 2003 6:09 PM
PHM Mews brief ~;nal_Ravi 2-5-03.dec
Re: Newsbrief
Dear Prem Qasem,
Greetings from the PHM Secretarial at CTIC Bangalore!!'!
I have gone hrough the newsbrief'and made some small modifications. See in
Red.
1. It covers the important areas but we have left PHM in GFHR / WABA in
November 2002; PHM in WSF in Januaiy 2003 and the PHM Workshops in East
.Africa (Kenya. Uganda. Tanzania) and in USA and Sri Lanka recently. Should
wejust; moi ice these as contents of the next brief and write to Maria.
Mwajuma, Sarah and Vinya to sene a shorter summary of the events for the
next News brief.
2. Since HAI-.AP meeting and PHM Geneva 2003 are after all these events
listed above - we can introduce them in this news briefunder a Stop Press
Section as a box item.
3. if there is space and the idea suggested of an insert is acceptable then
I can send you short items on some of the above. There was also a
collective statement on Health from WSF 2003 (see Maria's report that was
circulated from there). I leave on 8th - so I have to attend to anything
more by 6th at least.
4. Maria’s WSF report and Mwajuma's Africa report was circulated in PHA
Exchange. If necessary either of you can take some extracts from them
directly since time is a constraint.
5. Send the news brief through the Bangladesh team and at least 200-300
Charters and Testimonies and PHA posters.
All the best towards News brief No------ ?
Should we inform a small newsbrief editorial team during our 17th meeting so
that there is a larger representative sample not just the three of us from
South Asia.
Best Wishes,
Dr. Ra\i Narayan
Coordinator, People's Health Movement Secretariat(global)
OHC-Bangalore
-367 "Srinivasa Nilaya"
Jakkasandra 1st Main. I Block Koramangala
Banealore-560034
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Global 4pha-exchange@kabissa.0rg>; <PHMJHumanitarian_action_circie@yahoogroups.com>;
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Sivaraman <satyasagar@yahoo.com>
Sent:
Sunday. May18, 2003 12:51 AM
on health is killing th? dream of Health for ail": WHO being criticised for their failure in irac :
JRESS RELEASE from the PHM- Geneva, May 16th, 2003) (PHM-C)
For media enquiries, please call Geneva:
ro: immediate distribution (local media).
73 876 5437
People’s Health Movement
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Geneva, May 75^-', 2003:25 years since the historic promise by the WHO and the international community to
“ftca/tf? feral!” the idea is a distant dream Wars, along with conflicts and the military establishment,
have become one of the key hindrances in making the dream of health for all a reality.
Peop'e’s Health Movement (PHM) is holding a parallel process to the upcoming World Health Assembly that
s ex rested to begin at Geneva, next week. PHM came down heavily on the failure of the WHO to protect the
Juts and meet the health needs of the war affected :n Iraq.
People’s Health Movement is a people-oriented globai initiative that evolved out of the People’s Health
fi.ssern.hly (PHA), a historic summit that was held in December 2000 in Bangladesh. Over 1453 participants
'■•ct. 92 countries met for the PHA that was the culmination of 13 months of preparatory action around the
globe.
■testimonies cf grass roots health workers and medical professionals working in humanitarian agencies give
5 chil’mg account cf the disastrous impacts of the wars and conflicts on the lives of civilians in general and
their health in particular. Research concludes that wars have reversed the limited developments that were
achieved in the field of health.
“The humanity is not able to cope with the devastating impacts of the depleted uranium weapons that were
used on Iraq and Kuwait. Generations will pay a heavy price for reasons they were not responsible for ' said
Dr. Rosalie Berteli, a well-known international expert on radiation and militarisation. ‘•Unfortunately iraq.
Kosovo and Afghanistan are not cases in isolation, she said.
■•Firstly. wars and conflicts destroy the health systems. Secondly, health is not a centra; theme while
post-war rebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction work .happens. Humanitarian agencies and health
movements need io work together to ensure synergy,” testified Dr.Unnikrishnan PV of PHM and
Inteinational People's Health Council who was in Iraq recently. Wars along with its fallouts have
killed over 750,000 children in Iraq between 1991 and 1997 and destroyed the health infrastructure.
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nt’ ar in Iraq hr ■ ampliiicd the viffuring eflraqi children and people.
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quality of assistance and their health status.
i .— •• ' . ci'.natii'n has done in the Palestinian territory is to kill the dream of health for all.
od ly ensures hell for all” said Dr.Ghassan Hamdan, a spokesperson for the Union of
I ..ksthii...; Medical Commissions (UPMRC). UPMRC has been a lifeline for the millions of
i ’i nrs cauaht in the unending crossfire. There has been an increased incidence of deaths and
M.cAs happening at checkpoints because Israeli, forces denied access io hospitals.
. ding on public health has been falling. Even the available limited resources n
• . i and
increasingly diverted to a new privatisation process deceptively called as private-public partnership. The
dofl ’ rcesto occupy lore and more countries will further an pHfy the milit ry expenditure at
the cost of health and other social sectors, 'i bis is an assault on the poor and this trend must be
;
'aftidlah Chowdhury f
Bangladesh. It is estimated that tl ■
global annual ntiharc expenditure is more than US S 780 billion per year. The UN agencies estimate
■ rillionwil help to fetch
king water and basic sanitation for the people of the
developing world.
"PTIM as ■■ people-based mass movement has been putting efforts io address the issue of war and
conflicts. Efforts will be put to amplify the efforts at the grass roots level as well as in international
■- •■ .. • '
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ickinge srgyii Switzerland,’ aid Ms. Garance Upham, the j ssident of the newly formed
PTIM-Gcr.cva International (PHM-GI), the local body oi'the PIEvl. PHM-GI, because of its strategic
positioning at Geneva, the seat for WHO and several UN organisations, is expected to play a major
-c i : ???•. ’ advocacy and lobbying efforts.
W1 il: demai lit g he WHO to be mo spr active, assertive and sensitive to the health needs of war-hit
people, PHXi calls lor synergy between antiwar movements, peace groups and humanitarian agencies.
.... theattackisi
Earth and Nature- the foundations of life and humanity. This has already
:n ations to come. This assault must be stopped”
resulted in irreversible damages th
added Dr. Rosalie Bertoli.
o
At a time when disturbing reports continue to pour in from Iraq about the deteriorating health of the
Chilians and internally displaced people, PI IA1 places five key demands on the international
community:
|
1.
Stop the wars. Respect International Humanitarian I .aws.
2.
Stop the occupation of Iraq, Palestine and other places. Let the local people decide their
future. “We urge the US, UK and Israel to show the courage to withdraw from occupied
countries ahd territories and thus lead a genuine, lasting and just peace process”.
3.
Give health a central role in the rebuilding efforts. Governments and humanitarian agencies
that dominate the initial rebuilding process need to be more imaginative and sensitive to
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short term medical needs as well as long term health needs.
Put ar. immediate end to all research programmes that are being carried out to develop
weapons of mass destruction (W.XID). Possession as well as use of WMD is one of the
greatest threats to public health. Irrespective of the economic status, no country can.
legit:
the developt•.tent and preservation of V. AID.
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devastate :ommunities and destroy human
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economic stability and the allocation of resources to the social
sector.” says the People's Charter for Health.
Dr. R.ivi Narayan
Ms. Garance Upham
Co-ordinator. PHM Secretarial
President. PHM- Geneva International.
.r:::iy iym-notiirie-i.pih-rsse caM; _N my 15^ till May ;-?
Geneva: Local mobile: 078- 876 5+37 (dial +41 78 876 5437 from abroad)
France : .'.lobile . +33 660 339 448
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unnikru@yahoo.com
chetley.a@healthlink.orq.uk
Thaikim.': Sa?y: Siva-aman (E-mail: satvasaqar@yahoo.corn )
PHfri Seci aias iat: CHC #367, Jakkasandre 1st Main, IstBiock, Koramangaia,
Bangalore - S6C 034 ire a.
“si.: 91 -80-5128 009 / Telefax: 91 -33-552 53 72
E-mail: secrete.vs.+ ent.org Website: mtp.VwrAv.piimovemfcr-t.org
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Message forwarded by:
Dr. Unnikrishnan PV India
E-mail: unnikru@vsnl.com. °h Cm): +91 (O' 98450 91319 (from May 14th till May 28th. contact Geneva: +41
S8 876 543“;
5/22/03
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Re. JRGEV Action required today, please: Fw. Visa Letter URGENT
JWia.RIS-’^AN
Dear Unni.
We spoke to Manoj and this was sent to his new fax number just before Manoj
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forms. Prasanna will send you a list
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meeting is taking pi ace is GO 44 20'? 3800001.
^vi;h cost .‘.isuto.
Dr. RMNar./.an
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Coordinator. People's Health Movement Seeretariat(global)
CHC-Bungedote
■561' "Srinivasa Nilaya"
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Baagalore-56vv34
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Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 9:42 AM
Subjec : URGENT : Action required today, please: Fw; Visa L Jtter IIRGENT
- Dear Manoj arid Nance (copy io Satya and FILM sec.
\i S C S rom Satya, the PHM media team member located in Bangkok, Thailand
> informs that he needs a formal invitation io process the Swiss visa, Ravi
> has sent him the formal invitation. But he will need one from WCC or
PI IM -GI
> to process the visa.
Please address the invitation to:
> Satxanaravan Sivaraman
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Sent:
ve:dnesday, May 07, 2003 9:42 AM
SENT Action required today, please: Fw: Visa Letter URGENT
r .w.ir .'.tanoj and Nance (copy to Satya and PHM sec)
.\n St .-S from Satya, the PHM media team member located in Bangkok, Thailand
reeds a formal invitation to process the Swiss visa. Ravi
formal invitation. But he will need one from Wcr ’
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anarayan Sivaraman
15. S;:i Potharam, T.Chang Puak. A.Muang. Chiang Mai 50300, Thailand
Pussport number: Z. -475522.
tlx a io ;
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[PHM_Steering_Group_02-03] "Tobacco today, Arms Trade tomorrow"- PHM demands WHO
target the world's largest killer industry (PRESS RELEASE from the PHM- Geneva, May 20th ,
2003) (PHM-)
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PRESS RELEASE
’’Tobacco today, Arms Trade tomorrow’’
PHM demands WHO target the world’s largest killer industry
Geneva, May 20"', 2003: The People’s Health Movement welcomes the impending adoption of the
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control by governments from around the world at the World
Health Assembly, 2003.
It further congratulates the World Health Organization for its role in ensuring the adoption of the
FCTC through its long public campaign on the issue and its steadfast rejection of influence and
lobbying against the Convention by powerful lobbies of the tobacco multinationals. The Tobacco
Free Initiative has shown how sincere political commitment to the cause of public health can
overcome market-driven health hazards.
The PHM however urges the WHO not to succumb to new pressures from corporate lobbies or even
those from certain influential member states and accept any trade-offs to ensure the adoption of the
FCTC.
Further, the PHM cautions the WHO that immediate and vigorous steps need to be taken to monitor
the implementation of the treaty, especially at the grassroots. "The PHM, which includes consumer
groups and public health activists pioneering the cause of FCTC, extends its support for monitoring
its implementation worldwide," said a PHM spokesperson.
The WHO's efforts have set an important precedent for carrying out similar campaigns by the
international body against other corporate lobbies that, in their reckless pursuit of profits before
people, have been responsible for the avoidable death, injury and ailment of millions of innocent
people.
Therefore, as a logical follow up, the PHM urges the WHO to fight for a ban on advertising,
n r-te cU e.
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promotion and marketing of all products manufactured by the global armaments industries as the first
step towards ultimately abolishing the industry itself. The arms industry has become the world’s
largest killer industry' and worst enemy of public health.
The armaments industry has been in one way or the other been responsible for the deaths of 123
million people in over 150 war’s that have been fought since the end of the Second World War. Of
these 90% have occurred in developing countries. In the 1990s 90 % of casualties has been innocent
civilians, mainly women and children. The use of weapons of long-term destruction such as
ammunition using depleted uranium in the ongoing invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan are examples of
the callousness of this killer industry and the governments captive to the interests of arms lobbies.
Corporations responsible for or involved in producing weapons, both big and small, intended to kill,
maim and injure people need to be banned from advertising, promoting or marketing their products.
They should be further prevented from using profits from the arms trade in other sectors of the
economy.
Military expenditure in 2001 was around US $839 billion - a world average of $137 per capita. It is
estimated that the developing countries need just about US $ 11 billion to provide clean water and
sanitation for their people, tire absence of which kills about 30,000 children alone every day. The
money spent on military expenditure should instead be diverted for improving public health systems
around the world, particularly in developing countries.
In the light of the WHO's various experiences of coming under undue pressure from corporate lobbies
during its campaign for tobacco control the PHM also strongly urges the body to reconsider its
growing proximity to business associations and groups as part of so called ‘public-private
partnership’ initiatives. The PHM believes that the WHO must remain a completely neutral body
representing the interests of the world’s people and must not become captive solely to the interests of
the rich and powerful.
The PHM represents a coalition of grassroots public health activist groups, NGOs and health
professionals in almost 100 countries around the world. The movement was born at the historic
People’s Health Assembly in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2000 with the aim of promoting the cause of
Health For All.
“Increased arms procurement and an aggressive and corrupt international arms trade undermine
social, political and economic stability and the allocation of resources to the social sector,” says the
People’s Charterfor Health, the guiding spirit of the PHM. The People’s Charter for Health is the
largest consensus document on health in the world.
Dr. Ravi Narayan
Ms. Garance Upham
Co-ordinator, PHM Secretariat
President, PHM- Geneva International.
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PHA-Exchange> World Health Assembly adopts historic Tobacco ControlPact
World Health Assembly adopts historic Tobacco Control Pact
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control now ready for signature
GENEVA - The 192 members of the World Health Organization today unanimously adopted the
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) aimed at curbing tobacco-related deaths and
disease. This is the first international treaty negotiated under the auspices of the World Health
Organization (WHO).
The Convention requires countries to impose restrictions on tobacco advertising, sponsorship and
promotion, establish new labelling and clean indoor air controls and strengthen legislation to clamp
down on tobacco smuggling.
Today, we are acting to save billions of lives and protect peoples health for generations to come. This
is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to
health head on,said Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General of the WHO to the 56th World
Health Assembly.
Now we must see this Convention come into force as soon as possible, and countries must use it as
the basis of their national tobacco-control legislation,she said. Four years in the making, the
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control has been a priority in the WFIOs global work to stem the
tobacco epidemic. Tobacco now kills some five million people each year. This death toll could
double to reach 10 million by 2020 if countries do not implement the measures of the FCTC. While
smoking rates are declining in some industrialised countries, they are increasing, especially among
the young, in many developing countries. These will account for over seventy percent of that
projected death toll.
We must do our utmost to ensure that young people everywhere have the best opportunities for a
healthy life. By signing, ratifying and acting on this Tobacco Convention, we can live up to this
responsibility,said Dr Brundtland. To bring the FCTC into force, forty countries are needed to ratify
or otherwise accept it.
Every country present in this room will testify to the challenges we faced as we worked on this final
document. We now have to ensure the agreement we have reached will do what is intended to do save
lives and prevent disease,said ambassador Luis Felipe Seixas de Correa, the Brazilian diplomat who
chaired the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body of the FCTC. The 6th round of negotiations, which
arrived at the final text, finished on 1 March 2003.
The FCTC will be open for signature at WHO headquarters from 16 to 22 June 2003 and thereafter at
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the UN headquarters (New York) from 30 June 2003 to 29 June 2004.
All background on the FCTC .
For more information contact:
Helen Green - Information Officer
Tobacco Free Initiative
WHO
Telephone: (+41 22) 791 3432
Mobile phone: (+41) 79 475 5572
Fax: (+41 22) 791 4832
Email: greenh@who.int
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PHA-Exchange> 'Hyper on SARS,silent on WARS'- Will the new WHO DG break thesilence?
(Press release from the PHM
May 22nd 2003)
People's Health Movement
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PRESS RELEASE
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from abroad)
'Hyper on SARS, silent on WARS'
Will the new WHO DG break the silence ?
Geneva, May 22, 2003: The People's Health Movement congratulates Dr.
Jong-Wook Lee as he assumes his position as the new Director-General of
the World Health Organisation. Dr Lee takes over the organisation at a
time when its relevance to the public health needs of the world's poor
and marginalized is at its lowest point in recent history.
The PHM therefore extends its welcome to the new incumbent with several
words of caution. If the WHO is to truly remain a' world' body and
address the real 'health' needs of the ordinary people it needs to
urgently:
Broaden its analysis to include the socio-economic and
political determinants of people's health
Identify and address the impact of global neo-liberal economic
policies on health of the poor
Place people's health first. Resist the greed of drug and junk
food corporations
Oppose all wars, conflict and the arms trade as detrimental to
public health
Change its current selective, disease focused and donor driven
approach to public health
Implement the Alma Ata vision of Primary Health Care as the
cornerstone of national health systems everywhere
WHO's politically expedient, selective approach can be illustrated by
two major events in just the past few months- the illegal invasion of
Iraq by the United States and United Kingdom and the global outbreak of
SARS.
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As of 20 May, 2003 a cumulative total of 7919 probable cases of SARS
with 662 deaths have been reported from 28 countries. This is over a
period of six months since the outbreak was first reported in China.
Compare this to the number of casualties in Iraq since the US/UK
invasion began on April 14, 2003. According to independent estimates,
anywhere between 4000 and 5000 innocent men, women and children have
died in Iraq due to the invasion in just two months. Apart from this
over 20,000 Iraqi troops who have been killed in this illegal war,
prosecuted against international majority opinion and UN policy.
While in the case of SARS the WHO has rightly issued global alerts,
mobilised governments around the world, brought together the best
medical research facilities available and galvanised public opinion in
the case of the war on Iraq it has chosen to remain completely silent.
Today, as the people of Iraq live and die for want of basic necessities
such as clean drinking water, adequate quality food, electricity and
medical care the WHO has been reduced to mumbling banalities without
the will or wherewithal to prevent this public health disaster.
While the PHM has chosen to highlight WHO's response to SARS versus its
inaction in the case of the war on Iraq it can easily be pointed out
that the WHO does not show the same sense of urgency in the case of a
series of other public health disasters also, all of which kill
millions of people annually. To cite just two examples:
As many as 1 billion human beings - one out of six on our
planet - are under-nourished and go to bed hungry each night. Each day,
19,000 people die of hunger and hunger-related diseases.
30,000 children die every day from preventable diseases most
of them linked to under nutrition.
In these cases the causes are clear- an increasingly unfair and unjust
world where health as a human right has been eclipsed by the profit
motive.
The PHM urges the incoming WHO Director General to ponder deeply over
what role he would like his organization to play. Will it be a body
which wants to be the premier international institution advising and
mobilising governments to tackle the public health needs of their
poorest people? Or, will the WHO become a silent partner in the
undermining of their health and livelihoods by the rich and the
powerful? The people of the world will be watching closely.
Dr. Ravi Narayan
Ms. Garance Upham
Co-ordinator, PHM Secretariat
President, PHM-Geneva International.
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People's Health Movement is a people-oriented global initiative that
evolved out of the People's Health Assembly (PHA), a historic summit
that was held in December 2000 in Bangladesh. Over 1453 participants
from 92 countries met for the PHA that was the culmination of 18 months
of preparatory action around the globe.
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Geneva convention.
The PHM oaiis upon the World Health Organisation, as also other health and humanitarian
cie ->, to respond immediately to such attacks on medical and health workers in the
West Bank and Gaza to prevent future incidents of this kind.
During the iatest attack on the clinic in Nablus, which caters to some of the poorest residents
of the city, Israeli soldiers damaged equipment and medicines worth over US$10,000 and
^damaged the i iterior ol the clinic com jletely. The soldiers blew open the door of the clinic
^ard er.Cerad sheeting randomly.
The sc'diers also mvadecl the apartment above the clinic. This apartment is home to the A!
Dari famisy- the youngest is 10 years old, the eldest, a 62 year old 'woman. The soldiers
interrogated me family, including children, and then forced them to evacuate the building.
Three members of the family- Mahar (50), Ayman (' 42) and Nimr (40) werer arrested and
kept handcuffed in a military van. They were threated by the soldiers who warned that if the
clinic continued io operate, the soldiers would return and completely demolish the building.
-Since October 2G02 the Israeli army has invaded the Medical Relief Emergency ciinic, which
serves tie Al Yasmina neighbourhood, which has a population of approximately 7000
oeople. This clinic is the only emergency medical relief centre inside the old city.
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SUDAMER1CA-SALUD
Un 40% de adolescentes entre 15 y 18 anos fuman en region
Ginebra, 22 may (EFE).- Uno de cada diez nihos en Sudamerica ha aprendido a fumar antes de los diez
anos y si 40 por ciento de los adolescentes entre 15 y 18 anos son fumadores habituales, segun estudios
citados hoy, jueves, por el Movimiento para la Salud de los Pueblos.
Representantes de este movimiento internacional participan en la 56 Asamblea Mundial de la Salud, que se
ceiebra en Ginebra.
hrturo Quizhpe., coordinador del Consejo de Salud de ios Pueblos de Sudamerica, que forma parte del
movimiento internacional, dijo que diversas investigaciones confirman la "ampliacion del tabaquismo" y "la
creciente agresividad de la publicidad del tabaco dirigida principalmente a mujeres yjovenes".
Afirmo que en los paises sudamericanos, el consumo de tabaco "se esta convirtiendo en una verdadera
pandemia", io que represents "una grave amenaza para sus sistemas de salud publics".
Sobre el Convenio internacional contra el Tabaquismo, adoptado este miercoles por la Asamblea Mundial de
la Salud, Quizhpe dijo que no basta con que los paises latinoamericanos suscriban este instrumento
juridico, sino que “deben ratificarlo e implementarlo Io antes posible".
Quizhpe, ex cecano de ia facuitad de Ciencias Medicas de la Universidad de Cuenca (Ecuador), sostuvo que
les gobiernos de la region deben prohibir la publicidad del tabaco, asi como el patroejnio de actividades
ceportivas por parte de firmas tabacaleras.
Por otro iado, ei activista comento que existe inquietud por el silencio sistematico de la Organizacidn
Mundial de Saiud (OMS) ante los "desastrosos efectos" de las pollticas de ajuste estructural -impuestas por
e! Fondo Monetario Internacional y el Banco Mundial- en los servicios publicos de salud.
Considerd que ia OMS tiene la obligation de anaiizar ei impacto de estas politicas macroeconomicas "que
han provooado la muerte de ninos por desnutricion".
Comentd. por ejempio que a la crisis social que se vive en Argentina antecedieron situaciones similares en
paises como Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia y Colombia, "donde la aplicacion estricta del modeio neoliberal
implied la reduccion del gasto social".
iSostuvo que Brasil es el unico pais que ha logrado soportar las presiones de los organismos financieros
internacionales.
El representante, quien asiste a la asamblea anual de la OMS en Ginebra, sostuvo que en la mayor parte de
paises latinoamericanos los servicios de salud han sido liberalizados, perrnitiendo que la inversion privada
reemplace a ia inversion de los Estados.
"Esto ha slgnificado la destruccion de los sistemas de salud gratuitos, pues ahora los enfermos deben pagar
para ser atendidos", concluyd. EFE
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Dr. Unnikrishnan PV India
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PHH Secretariat
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Monday (26th) 6 pm GMT. I will pass this on to Carmelite and hope she
can circulate few ?r:(hard) copies.
Looking forward to near,ng from you
Regards
unm
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helped to strengthen the Primary Health Care resolution in the WHA.
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Safurtfev, Mgv 31, 2003 11:46 AM
Subject:
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Go- rriivi press release- peiase read and ciear. Your names appear as lire signatories.
(response required latest by 11 am (GMT) on Monday.
Dear Bala. Pam and Ravi
Greetings from Bangalore i
Attached please find a draft press release about G8. Please read, edit and return It to me.
Please return it ASAP, latest bv Monday 11 am GMT.
Is it ok if we put your (3 names) ?. The reasons:
a) Baia worked on drart document and some of the facts, figures and ideoiogy are from the document.
b) Pam- because of PHM Europe. Pam, I believe you are still the PHM Europe representative.
c) Ravi- Secretariat
2) Please use track changes mode when you edit on the word file.
1)
Looking forward to hearing from you. i plan to time the release at 4 pm Evian/ Geneva/ London time on
Monday. I would like the journalists to carry this document when they go home on Monday and thus file
something on Tuesday momign as a reaction to G 8.
Ravi, i arn back, i wiii caii you tomorrow.
Regards
Unm
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dr Unnikrishnan PV, India
E-mail: unn:kru@vsnl.com: Ph (m): -■-91 (0) 98'150 91319
Read the latest on the campaign to stop the war at:
www. indiadisasters.oro/iraq
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London. Colombo. Evian (Fiance)
Is' June. 2003.
Press Release:
Peaceful Protests at G8 Summit
PHM calls for a New World Economic Order
As yet another meeting of G8 heads of states starts on June 1, 2003 the People's
Health Movement calls upon people around the world to peacefully protest against the
policies of neo-liberal globalization imposed on them by the G8 rich countries.
"Over 90,000 children will die from preventable diseases during just the three days
when G8 will be held Poverty, non-access to health care and lack of basic sanitation
are the key reasons for these deaths. The G 8 leaders should be doing a serious soul
searching." said a PHM spokesperson.
Globalization and unfair multilateral trade agreements have enabled the G8 to keep
the wealth in the developed countries leaving 1.3 billion people in developing
countries to live on less than one dollar a day. Across the world about 56 percent of
the population lives below two dollars a day. Meanwhile about 20 percent of the
world's population living in OECD countries today control approximately 80 percent
of the resources and wealth of the world.
The PHM considers it ironical that the G8, which is the cause of global poverty, has
taken upon itself the task of eradicating poverty. If Africa, East Asia. South Asia and
Latin America were to increase their share of world export by one percent, the
resulting income could lift 128 million people out of poverty. But the low and
unstable commodity prices that consign millions into poverty are never an issue at the
summit meetings of G8.
“Neo liberal economic policies have been the biggest block in ensuring Health for All
Their impacts have resulted in genocidal proportions, leading to the mass slow murder
of million of poor people’’said a PHM spokesperson.
—
111 conceived economic policies pushed by the World Bank and IMP onto developing
countries have been responsible for the debt crisis in the Third World. Each day
developing countries pay rich nations USS717 million in debt service. Every baby
born in the developing world carries an external debt of US$482 at birth. The leaders
of G8 have never seriously addressed the devastation caused by such external debt on
the world's poorer countries.
The objectives of the peaceful protests planned at the G8 summit meetings are to:
Hold a minor to G8 leaders to let them and the world know the enormous
injustice inflicted on poor developing countries in the name of globalization
and free trade.
2. Campaign for a New World Economic Order which will guarantee distributive
justice so that economic growth will ensure social and human development
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and there will be equity in access to and control of resources leading to
equitable distribution of wealth.
3. Let the people of the world know that the existing institutions are inadequate
to meet the aspirations of the world.
The People's Health Movement is a people-oriented global initiative that evolved out
of the People's Health Assembly (PHA), a historic summit that was held in December
2000 in Bangladesh. Over 1453 participants from 92 countries met for the PHA that
was the culmination of 18 months of preparatory action around the globe.
Dr. K Balasubramaniam
Health Action International, SriLanka
Dr. Ravi Narayan
Co-ordiailtor. PHM Secretariat,
Dr. Pam Zinkin
PHM Europe, UK.
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Re: G o - PHM press release- peiase read and ciear. Your names appear as the signatories.
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I think the press release is good. Bin I am not the Europe official co-ordinator any more. I am the
email secretary. David Woodward is the focal point. It is true that I seem to be doing most of (he co
ordinating but it could upset people. If you need my name you can use International Peoples Health
Council. Europe.
There is a spelling error in the word co-ordinator after Ravi's name.
I would prefer not to have the following quote “Neo liberal economic policies have been
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the biggest block in ensuring Health for All. Their impacts have resulted in
genocidal proportions, leading to the mass slow murder of million of poor people”
said a PHm spokesperson.
os I find it a bit too dramatic but OK if Bala or Ravi said it.
Did David Woodward see this?
You are (Inina a grea! job.
Pam
At 11:16 PM 5/30/03 -0700. UNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr) wrote:
Dear Baia, Pam and Ravi
Ooatfnru: frorn Rannalnre I
Attached please find a draft press release about G8. Please read, edit and return it to me.
Please return it ASAP, latest by Monday 11 am GMT.
1) Is it ok if we out vour (3 names) ?. The reasons:
a) Bala worked on draft document and some of the facts, figures and ideology are from the
document
b) Pam- because of PHM Europe. Pam, I believe you are still the PHM Europe
representative.
c) Ravi- Secretariat
2) Please use track changes mode when you edit on the word file.
Looking forward to hearing from you. I plan to time the release at 4 pm Evian/ Geneva/ London
time on Monday, i would iike the journalists to carry this document when they go home on
Monday and thus file something on Tuesday momign as a reaction to G 8.
6/2/03
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Dr. Unnikrisiutan PV, iixiia
t-maii: unnikru(a!vsni.com: Pn (m): +91 (0) 98450 91319
Read the latest on ths campaign to step the war at:
www, iridiaMisasters, org/iraq
Pam Zir.kin
pamzinkin@gaapc.org
45 Anson Road
London N7 OAR
UK
tel:44 (0)20 7609 1005
fax:44 (0)20 7700 2699
6/2/03
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Dear Ravi
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Waiting for the aooroval for the G 8 oress release.
i wiii be back in oangaiure on Tuesday muiTiiriy. 1 hope to meet you. I wiii call and if it is ok with you, I would
iiKe to meet you on i uesoay (10 am to 11 am).
! will bring a!! the docs (revised film schedule4- Meria's papers4- My statements4- Media clips etc).
Regards
Unni
Dr. Unnikrishnan PV. India
B-mail: imniWghrsr.icom- Ph (m); +91 (q) 93450 91319
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www. indiadisasters. org/iraq
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I To: UNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr)
I Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 1:52 AM
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Alma Ata Anniversary film - new schedule of dates.
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People s Health Movement Secretariat (Global) at CHC, Bangalore!
; have written to Deien.
"lira has agreed to 'Ciio.v up with Sushma Swaraj. So do nudge her on this soon.
Will send you all the material I can collect before you leave for GK.
The JSA - NVvG meeting will be a Bangalore on 26th i 27tn July, discussing JSA campaigns,
WSF Health Forum PHH secretariat matters' and other related issues. Can you and Hari join us
as a special request from. CHC? Details follow. CHC has been requested to host / organize it.
I am hoping Zafarullah and Qasem can join us as well and it would be really great if Bala could
be persuaded to come. We could follow up on'
a
WSF - Health Forum
b
Funding group issues and log frame tor 2003-2006.
c.
PHA - II
d.
ASF / TS.M Assembly
e
PHM courses at GK-Savar
f.
News Brief.,
And'ew has sent a note on communication which is being sent to many of you to help us build a
•nrrtiw icauor strategy for PHM.
A good opportunity for a South Asian dialogue and strengthening solidarity.
st wishes
,a y. : *aray<an
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Dear
'Ccto '■•'a: a anti Ra\:: for their ^formation only)
The Italian s-te :s reaoy : ne contact address will be corrected by 10 Givi T on 6th. Acknowledgements for
AIFO also •:::' be ?~er? o ■ -.0 am GM i tomorrow). In short everything is set for your launch on 11th.
As trc.r .sac. a.'.ac so please rind a draft press reease . :s marled keeping the tone and content of our
earlier press releases .jvsed during the launch of English and Spanish sites) and the contents that will go in
the German site (that will be launched in June 3rd week.
1) The press -e’eese
:e issued on the joint letter heads pf PHM IPHC ant: AIFO. i trust it is fine with
-"■FC. (Please re.memce' ■■■•.:s an initiative by IPHC for PHM. The (minimum) costs required for this is
taken care by IP.-C . it not just the cost factor but the facilitation is b> PHC and it is an IPHC contribution
fcr r r-../.. . am exc.airung r.ere, because there an: specific reasons 1 hope you understand.)
''Ct pos=:ble t: :. se A!FO tetter head, please go ahead and use the joint letter heads of IPHC and PHM
(We preter you atisrmmg ;r.3 A'FO name to tins). To make tilings easier, please print the world file exactly
irkc as i: ..s. . r a. e put au ,e u:ree logos.
You, iV'~- r, and R?.'" w:T be the signatories.
4) . nave aierrea law :;ai;an journalists, they may caii you. One of them .nay get the signatures of two Italian
hiobei Prize winners
5; I; you de 'z. hear from
■me clearance or the.: cenaif
c) Please
srsic
worldwide.
or Ravi by 10 am GMT on June 9th piease go ahead and use it. i give you
that yot nsert a name where I have given space end suggestion. Please return the final
tomorrow night (at least 8 hours before the launch). I will, release it to the journalists,
A’se r lease send me the Italian translation of the press release whenever it is ready.
/ ,i Piease cheer: .-. .?■ Tr.s-me whether the quote is ok. if she suggests io remove piease remove it. There
are too many Asian names ■■■ it
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t may be bette to ask an Italian : I mal y l< .... ■. Like tl e health wo ke
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... . .:... .. ease see . ebiank space in my press release). Thelma could be present and be a guest
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Amici di Raoul Follereau
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International People’s Health Council
PRESS RELEASE
“HEALTH FOR ALL NOW”www.LaCampaqnaPerUnMilioneDiFirme.org
Health activists amplify their march on the InternetItalians call for HEALTH FOR ALL NOW!
Bologna, Italy: 11th June, 2003: A quarter century later since the international
community promised Heath For All, a campaign on the Internet demands health for All
Now!
www.LaCampaqnaPerllnMilioneDiFirme.orq, the Italian version of “The Million Signature
Campaign- A March on the Internet demanding Health for all NOW!” was launched from
Bologna in Italy today.
Ms. Livia Turco, the ex-ltalian Minister for social welfare is one of the first signatories.
Others who endorsed their solidarity include ordinary Italians, students, journalists,
health workers, trade unionists and medical professionals.
This Internet-based campaign reminds that every 24 hours, over 30,000 children die
from preventable diseases. These are precious lives that the World Health Organisation
(WHO), the UNICEF and the international community promised to save 25 years.
In 1978, the Alma Ata declaration, a joint initiative of the WHO and UNICEF promised
Health for All by 2000. 25 years since the Alma Ata declaration, health for all is not a
reality.
“Today, while the world is writing a collective obituary of the future generation, we know
why they are dying; we know who are responsible for these deaths. We know how these
deaths can be stopped... Join ‘The Million Signature Campaign’- - a march
demanding health for all NOW!” says the home page of this web based campaign.
1
This campaign, initiated by the People's Health Movement (PHM) and the
International People's Health Council (IPHC), is being endorsed by ordinary people
from various walks of life and organisations, institutions, people’s associations and
others working for a just world. The English and Spanish versions were launched in
January and the campaign is picking up momentum worldwide.
Azzociazione Italiana Amizi di Raoul Folleareau (AIFO) an Italian voluntary
organization and an active member of the People’s Health Movement is facilitating the
Italian version of this campaign site.
“We hope that the Italian version of this global campaign will enthuse health workers and
policy makers not only in Italy but in Europe to take urgent measures to revive the vision
of Alma Ata’’ said Dr. Sunil Deepak, Medical Director of AIFO.
“Every morning we wake up to the stark reality that yesterday the world lost another
30,000 children. These deaths that pass over as official statistics are scars on the
collective conscious of the humanity. It is time to remind the UN institutions and
international community of their responsibility to make Health for All a reality NOW ’’ said
Dr. Unnikrishnan PV, of IPHC and PHM, the co-ordinator for this campaign.
“We plan to take this campaign to various constituencies and to different avenues in
Italy” said Ms Dr. Giovanni Gazzoli, an Italian health-worker/ doctor/ journalist/... (Sunil,
please identify oen-and-get-this-quete-endorsed.-lf it is an AIFO staff, it is fine, but
please do IW-lHr,emior> the AIFG affiliation here.
“The crises in health today call for attention from various quarters. The struggle for
Health for All needs to be fought at several fronts. Internet is just one avenue” said Dr.
Thelma Narayan, a health activist from India who was In Bologna during the launch.
Despite promising signals in the initial days since Alma Ata, the dream of Health For All
hit road blocks because of anti-health, anti-poor policies, reemerging and new diseases,
new challenges and above all by efforts to put private profit over public health. “The
situation calls for reviving the principles and strategies of Alma Ata” says this campaign
web site.
PHM was launched in Dec 2000 through the People’s Health Assembly, a historic
summit in Bangladesh that had participation of nearly 1400 representatives from nearly
100 countries.
The signatories of this campaign also would be endorsing the People’s Charter for
Health, the largest consensus document on health.
Dr. Sunil Deepak, Director AIFO
Maria Hamlin Zuniga, Co-ordinator: IPHC
Dr. Ravi Narayan, Co-ordinator: PHM Secretariat
+++++++++++++++++
For media enquiries +++++++++++++++++++++++
Italy: (+39) 051-43.34.02 or (+39) 340.383.1587
PHM Permanent contacts :
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India: Dr. Unnikrishnan PV ( Ph: +91 98450 91319 ; E-mail: unnikru@yahoo.com )
London: Andrew Chetley (Ph: +44 20 7539 1591; chetley.a@healthlink.orq.uk )
Thailand: Satya Sivaraman ( E-mail: satyasaqar@vahoo.com )
PHM Secretariat: CHC, # 367, Jakkasandra 1st Main, 1st Block, Koramangala, Bangalore - 560
034 India. Tel: 91-80-5128 009 / Telefax: 91-80-552 53 72 ;
E-mail: secretariat@phmovement.org Website: http://www.phmovement.org
IPHC: Apartado # -6152; Managua, Nicaragua: E-mail: info@iphcqlobal.org ; www.iphcqlobal.org
AIFO: (full address and ph + e-mai1-ids)-Via Borselli 4-6, 40135 Bologna, Italy, Tel: (+39) 051-43.34.02 Fax: (+39) 05143.40.46 Email: info@aifo.it
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PRESS RELEASE
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coerced co do so.
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iroops to the war effected areas ol Iraq.
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. 2 mds that any
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1 legitimise the ongoing illegal occupation in other parts of the world.
feels tlit the proposal by the US asking Indian or; ty other country troops foi
■ ? instthein srest f their citizens, tspectaDy its troops and their famili
etc d t n ]« alth and .
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dial was used during the recent war on Iraq. DU weapons wreck havoc. Their
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Sc’vnt’tic ;'..'.r ,-s; haw concluded Tat DU weapons lead io an epidemic oi'i .eukemia
■ ng t Iraqi civilians especially children. R search studies amongst US soldiers have
■ >-1 condone J the disastrous eoeccs of Di' weapons. Allied veterans of the < DO ’> mii
'arestiill :ing affected bj ‘Gulf war syndrome’, and thei
ipaigns to'gaih
cud compensation contiiiUi. Veterans of iiie Gulf .. ar (in US and UK.) arc
fighting
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.v.S;..,-wc to
linked as the tailoui ol Di weapons.
ier news reports from Iraq (duri g the recent war) have nfirmed th< use ol DU by
1 3 iowes. Sciemisis. doctors and humanitarian workers associated with the PHM have
id the tegati e apd itreversible impacts of DU weapons on hum: i, lives-both for the
: im- as V.el’ as the combatants. “DI ’ is dangerous. It will Lili slowly” said a
PI IX1 spokesperson.
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URGENT
PRESS RELEASE
STOP THE TROOPS:
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DU weapons can be deadly for Indian troops, planning to head for Iraq.
■ ■
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People’s Health Movement warns the Indian government about the long-term and
irreversible disastrous affects of Depleted Uranium weapons the Indian troops may
be subjected to if they are deployed in Iraq. PHM calls on the Indian President,
Prime Minister and Defence Minister to stop the deployment of Indian troops in
Iraq.
Bangalore, 12th June 2003: People’s Health Movement (PHM) expresses serious
concerns over the news reports that American govt, is coercing the Indian government to
send the Indian troops to the war affected areas of Iraq.
Firstly, PHM registers its strong opposition to sending Indian troops to Iraq on political
grounds that any such move will be considered as a support for the occupying forces and
will legitimise the ongoing illegal occupation in other parts of the world.
PHM also feels that the proposal by the US asking Indian troops for Iraq will work
against the interest of Indian citizens, especially its troops and their families. The
proposal is objected on health and humanitarian grounds.
“The Indian troops will be subjected to the long term impacts of Depleted Uranium (DU)
weapons that was used during the recent war on Iraq. DU weapons wreck havoc. Their
impacts are devastating on life systems. With a half life period of 110,000 years, DU
weapons spell disaster on civilian victims as well as combatants and others who stay in
the affected areas,” said a PHM spokes person.
Scientific studies have concluded that DU weapons lead to an epidemic of Leukemia
amongst Iraqi civilians, especially children. Research studies amongst US soldiers have
also confirmed the disastrous effects of DU weapons. Allied veterans of the 1990 ‘Gulf
War’ are still being affected by ‘Gulf war syndrome’, and their campaigns to gain
recognition and compensation continue. Veterans of the Gulf War (in US and UK) are
fighting health problems which are not well understood by medical professionals but
which are suspected to be linked as the fallout of DU weapons.
Earlier news reports from Iraq (during the recent war) have confirmed the use of DU by
US forces. Scientists, doctors and humanitarian workers associated with the PHM have
studied the negative and irreversible impacts of DU weapons on human lives- both for the
civilians victims as well as the combatants. “DU is dangerous. It will kill slowly” said a
PHM spokesperson.
People’s Health Movement, a global coalition of grass root health workers, medical
experts, humanitarian workers, social scientists and scientists, demands the Indian
President to take steps to stop this move that is being initiated by a section of the political
leadership in India. President as the supreme commander of the armed forces may use his
position to stop this.
PHM also feels that it is important to provide complete and unbiased information to the
Indian public and soldiers about the negative and long-term impacts of DU weapons that
often causes a continuing nightmare in the lives of those who are subjected to its fallout.
People’s Health Movement is a people-oriented global initiative that evolved out of the
People’s Health Assembly (PHA), a historic summit that was held in December 2000 in
Bangladesh. Over 1453 participants from 92 countries met for the PHA that was the
culmination of 18 months of preparatory action around the globe.
People’s Charterfor Health, the guiding spirit of the PHM is the largest consensus
document on health. “Wars, violence, conflict and natural disasters devastate
communities and destroy human dignity. They have a severe impact on the physical and
mental health of their members, especially women and children. Increased arms
procurement and an aggressive and corrupt international arms trade undermine social,
political and economic stability and the allocation of resources to the social sector,” says
the People’s Charter for Health.
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a mai: ano attachment that may lead to a PHM statement (at the global level). It may
afternoon.
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pm tomorrow
:-s from some of steering group members are to “go ahead"\.iih updates/suggestions like:
'i Nicaragua and some other countries are also under similar pressure/ negotiation. So make the press
'"lease more g'cba' srd use the Indian example for news angle/ value.
2; J SA y-:. ; consider -ssuing a press statement (perhaps more India specific and that may have quotes from
forme«-r-r. • persons or nuke scientists.)
3; .
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co -- .-. re ,n Inoia US a-'d tne rest' of the world by tomorrow late nigh’. .t may help to influence the out
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am: Dr. Bedel' ptease add' ed'fi
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Dear Mike.
I think this is an important initiative. Such a news release could also be used in other countries. For
example, Nicaragua has offered to send out persons specialized in removing landmines. Actually we gave
the president info on DU, out that has not changed the intention.
hsay you should get some quotes directly from some people like Rosalie or Medact.
Go with this.
Regards,
Maria
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Dr) [i iaiftp:ur.nikru@yahoo.com]
enviado el: jueves, 12 de junio de 2003 4:19
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DC: Rcsj'le Bermm:i-:erc-'.vson@medact.org; Satya Sivaramjr
Asunto: [PHM_Steei
p_02-03] India .
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mease reaponc b. 12 noon GMT on Thursday
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statement (Draft) :
£2 noon GMT on Tiiursday
Dear Friends
The
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Deputy -n re Minister (who also holos the Home portfolio) s in the US. He met
is
sc rsguiur sessions ?/:th Ronald Rumsfieic.
One of rhe key issues That ’.hey are discussing is to ensure ’hat Indian troops are deployed in
■ra-f. There is = meet* ng in Delhi to discuss and finalise this cn Friday.
<_ m tec< protests have been registered witntn the country. It is mostly on political groundsmamly s:ogans.
may : = a jie to ci e a ”SPi
and give a health and humanitarian ang.e.
straohed oisase find a draff cress release i have drafted. If we can issi.w; it tomorrow and can
rmscre on - cmye ■- : '.ci : US an I me rest c/ the ; orld by tomorrow late night, it may help to
fiue c theouic meof e eet ig scheduled for Friday. It is reported that Prime Mtnister
has so; u a n set .'.g ■ / :n me opposition leader on Saturday/ Sunday to discuss and decide
the same die rieec to act now. India may be just a beginning.
PH:.’ a.'g!e m-y ? .■■? a good ; jason for the opposition that is slowly building here
i^iease resccro
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REQU; RED before 4 pm GMT on June 12th 2003 (Thursday)
toupleof 5xchanges) from the Medical Aid for the Third World about a
. : ss . r r e< are o ga -Js:-.g to Paie-sf re "heir main host is Dr. Mustaffa Barghout.. They are seeking
geest ■ PH?
or this mission vil! be a solidt
I have offered help
behtt’f'"-'".T red a :.. ?o?~ Wo'-'ld Tie to extend it on behalf of PH T as ■ -’e.l. once PHM confirms. Could
the steen;'; grew?' secrete’u;:form PHM endorsement.
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ar:C write to tie Tec :4for :.;e
Wor’d on oehaif of tris Working Circle and PHM secretariat.
Piease respor? as scon as .ossicle. Three positive response and no negative response received by 4 pm
GV'T on June 12:~. 2003 Thursday^ wiii be taken as a confirmation.
Looking forward to nearing from you
In solidarity
Unni
O:igtn?.i Message —
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- Bert De Beider
TUNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr)
Uu: Wim De Ceukelaire . pamzinkin . Maria Hamlin Zuniga : qhassanha@hally.net; Guido vanham ,
blanckesofie@hotmaii.com colette.mouiaert@bruteie.be Tariq Shadid . G_retta Dujsenberg
Sent: Von?'? ,".n?09 2C2?'?:23AM
Subject: medical a-., foct-finding mission Palestine
Tnan.K yo- .er, mu co :m mis grea; r.ec.s Unfortunately, i think the date o.: the mission is quite fixed by now.
June 23 ;o ul ./ '-re Ro.vson c; I . enact also showed interest, he would try to have one of their Board
members jom Yes mdeed i followed the PHM work in Geneva through your email messages, including the
stateme"' o' m ? s :
c I- s-. es :knew, cf ccurse that the UPMRC is an acti'/e member of the PHM.
is there any /.ay to get quick confirmation whether we may put the names of PHM and IPHC as endorsers of
this mission9 i rope we
be apie to come out with an Engiish-language mission statement with objectives
anc tne n<e 'Tar c'7.' anheuon ' -.upcose you can grasp quite well what it will all be about.
:’ha.- ,-;s for r-s attention . ou acccrceci to tire Belgian medical mission to Iraq and to the court case against
ijc; Gont-rL'. iomri-.y .-ru.-.KS < rr, .oov.ng forwaroi to coo the communioabon rolatod to thic follow up.
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’ Cc: Wim De Ceukelaire pamzinkin Maria Hamlin Zuniga ghassanha@hailv.net
. Sent: “uesdey. June 10 2003 6:48 AV
Siiqjec.: Re; '?.-,;.-E_.cpej medical and fact-fr.umg mission Palestine
■ Dear Dr Bert De Be'der
J Greetings from India, where > find tms wee* i
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lission. It is important. I am sure that IPHC and PH
,endorse this initiative. Di Ghassan Hamdan (UPMRC, Nebulus) who ...?.. with us in Geneva
highlighted now vs (UPMRC) emergency hospital was destroyed on May 2 isV 22nd in Israeli shelling. We
: usee press briefings ano .->e meeding wth WHO's new DG to press this point (Pasted please see at the
; end of t'is ma" the OiJ press release issued on May 22nd at Geneva.)
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I Keep me posted.
ssion to more constituencies. Please
■ I hope you receded the comnto.rtcatior. related to the outcome of the PHM meeting and session or. Wars,
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: Sent: ~ ursday. rn-e 05 2003 9:42 AM
. i Subject: [PHA-Europej meulcai and fact-finding pnission Palestine
' J Dear friends
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6 12'03
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Oxfam India
Health Action International (Asia-Pacific)
People’s Health Movement
PRESS RELEASE
URGENT
|‘WTO, together with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, is the
[greatest threat for public health’ says former UN advisor. ‘They should be held|
[responsible for the human suffering caused due to high cost of essential medicines’^
Bangalore (India), 29th July 2003: Over two billion people have no access to essential and life
saving medicines worldwide. WTO allows Multi National drug Companies to place profits above
people.
H1V/AIDS took 3.1 million lives in 2002. High costs of anti-retroviral drugs (used for the treatment
of HIV/ AIDS) are perhaps one of the key reasons why poor people worldwide can’t buy those
medicines. WTO allows drug companies to profit from this 'mass murder’.
"WTO, together with the World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) is the greatest
threat for public health,” said Dr. K Balasubramaniam, former Senior Pharmaceutical Advisor,
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva. “They (WTO, WB
and IMF) should be held responsible for the human suffering caused due to high cost of essential
medicines” said Dr. Balasubramaniam while delivering an Oxfam India Public Lecture on
‘WTO/TRIPS Agreement, the Doha Declaration and the Intellectual Property Bill 2003, Sri
Lanka’.
“Public interest groups have just challenged the SriLankan Intellectual Property Bill 2003," said Dr.
Bala, Colombo based advisor and Co-ordinator for Health Action International Asia - Pacific, a
policy and advocacy network that works for the cause of access to essential drugs and intellectual
property rights issues.
The Sri Lankan Bill was placed in the SriLankan Parliament on 21st May 2003. However, three
petitions have challenged the bill arguing that the bill was inconsistent with the Constitution of Sri
Lanka. The petitioners’ contention was chiefly based on the position that the mitigatory features.
which were incorporated in the TRIPS Agreement, have not been included in the Bill.
P
“We will step up efforts to challenge the WTO in various forums,” said Dr. Ravi Narayan of the /
People’s Health Movement (PHM). PHM, a grass root movement spread across the globe,
reiterated their solidarity for pro-justice movements who have been calling global attention on the
anti-poor and anti-people policies of the WTO through their protests in Seattle, Prague, Davos, /P ' +
Genova and recently Evian.
OU|0’
The Doha Declaration can be a reality only if there are political commitments from individual
countries. Developing countries like India must start taking necessary steps at the national level to
put into effect public health safeguards provided in the TRIPS Agreement and reiterated and
recognized in the Doha Declaration. “It is time to act on the Doha declaration,” said Mr. G Sri
Ramappa, director of Oxfam India, an Indian development and humanitarian agency.
For further media enquiries, please call:
+91-80- 363 2964 / 363 3274
& Mobile: +91 (0) 98450 91319
Ur ■
Oxfam India
Health Action International (Asia-Pacific)
People’s Health Movement
PRESS RELEASE
URGENT
[WTO, together with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, is the
[greatest threat for’public health* says former UN advisor. ‘They should be held|
[responsible for the human suffering caused due to high cost of essential medicines’^
Bangalore (India), 29th July 2003: Over two billion people have no access to essential and life
saving medicines worldwide. WTO allows Multi National drug Companies to place profits above
people.
HIV/AIDS took 3.1 million lives in 2002. High costs of anti-retroviral drugs (used for the treatment
of HIV/ AIDS) are perhaps one of the key reasons why poor people worldwide can’t buy those
medicines. WTO allows drug companies to profit from this ‘mass murder'.
“WTO, together with the World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) is the greatest
threat for public health,” said Dr. K Balasubramaniam, former Senior Pharmaceutical Advisor,
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva. “They (WTO, WB
and IMF) should be held responsible for the human suffering caused due to high cost of essential
medicines” said Dr. Balasubramaniam while delivering an Oxfam India Public Lecture on
‘WTO/TRIPS Agreement, the Doha Declaration and the Intellectual Property Bill 2003, Sri
Lanka’.
*
“Public interest groups have just challenged the SriLankan Intellectual Property Bill 2003," said Dr.
Bala, Colombo based advisor and Co-ordinator for Health Action International Asia - Pacific, a
policy and advocacy network that works for the cause of access to essential drugs and intellectual
property rights issues.
The Sri Lankan Bill was placed in the SriLankan Parliament on 21st May 2003. However, three
petitions have challenged the bill arguing that the bill was inconsistent with the Constitution of Sri
Lanka. The petitioners’ contention was chiefly based on the position, that the mitigatory features,
which were incorporated in the TRIPS Agreement, have not been included in the Bill.
“We will step up efforts to challenge the WTO in various forums,” said Dr. Ravi Narayan of the
People’s Health Movement (PHM). PHM, a grass root movement spread across the globe,
reiterated their solidarity for pro-justice movements who have been calling global attention on the
anti-poor and' anti-people policies of the WTO through their protests in Seattle, Prague, Davos,
Genova and recently Evian.
The Doha Declaration can be a reality only if there are political commitments from individual
countries. Developing countries like India must start taking necessary steps at the national level to
put into effect public health safeguards provided in the TRIPS Agreement and reiterated and
recognized in the Doha Declaration. "It is time to act on the Doha declaration,” said Mr. G Sri
Ramappa, director of Oxfam India, an Indian development and humanitarian agency.
For further media enquiries, please call:
+91-80-363 2964/363 3274
& Mobile:+91 (0) 98450 91319
.f,■
' * Oxfam India
Health Action International (Asia-Pacific)
People’s Health Movement
PRESS RELEASE
URGENT
1‘WTO, together with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, is the
[greatest threat for public health* says former UN advisor. ‘They should be held|
[responsible for the human suffering caused due to high cost of essential medicines^
Bangalore (India), 29th July 2003: Over two billion people have no access to essential and life
saving medicines worldwide. WTO allows Multi National drug Companies to place profits above
people.
HIV/AIDS took 3.1 million lives in 2002. High costs of anti-retroviral drugs (used for the treatment
of HIV/ AIDS) are perhaps one of the key reasons why poor people worldwide can’t buy those
medicines. WTO allows drug companies to profit from this 'mass murder’.
“WTO, together with the World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) is the greatest
threat for public health," said Dr. K Balasubramaniam, former Senior Pharmaceutical Advisor,
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva. ‘They (WTO, WB
and IMF) should be held responsible for the human suffering caused due to high cost of essential
medicines” said Dr. Balasubramaniam while delivering an Oxfam India Public Lecture on
‘WT0/7RIPS Agreement, the Doha Declaration and the Intellectual Property Bill 2003, Sri
Lanka’.
“Public interest groups have just challenged the SriLankan Intellectual Property Bill 2003,” said Dr.
Bala, Colombo based advisor and Co-ordinator for Health Action International Asia - Pacific, a
policy and advocacy network that works for the cause of access to essential drugs and intellectual
property rights issues.
The Sri Lankan Bill was placed in the SriLankan Parliament on 21st May 2003. However, three
petitions have challenged the bill arguing that the bill was inconsistent with the Constitution of Sri
Lanka. The petitioners’ contention was chiefly based on the position that the mitigatory features,
which were incorporated in the TRIPS Agreement, have not been included in the Bill.
“We will step up efforts to challenge the WTO in various forums,” said Dr. Ravi Narayan of the
People’s Health Movement (PHM). PHM, a grass root movement spread across the globe,
reiterated their solidarity for pro-justice movements who have been calling global attention on the
anti-poor and anti-people policies of the WTO through their protests in Seattle, Prague, Davos,
Genova and recently Evian.
The Doha Declaration can be a reality only if there are political commitments from individual
countries. Developing countries like India must start taking necessary steps at the national level to
put into effect public health safeguards provided in the TRIPS Agreement and reiterated and
recognized in the Doha Declaration. “It is time to act on the Doha declaration," said Mr. G Sri
Ramappa, director of Oxfam India, an Indian development and humanitarian agency.
For further media enquiries, please call:
+91-80-363 2964/363 3274
& Mobile:+91 (0) 98450 91319
--—
Oxfam India
Health Action International (Asia-Pacific)
People’s Health Movement
PRESS RELEASE
URGENT
|‘WTO, together with the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, is the
[greatest threat for public health’ says former UN advisor. ‘They should be held|
[responsible for the human suffering caused due to high cost of essential medicines’!
Bangalore (India), 29th July 2003: Over two billion people have no access to essential and life
saving medicines worldwide. WTO allows Multi National drug Companies to place profits above
people.
HIV/AIDS took 3.1 million lives in 2002. High costs of anti-retroviral drugs (used for the treatment
of HIV/ AIDS) are perhaps one of the key reasons why poor people worldwide can't buy those
medicines. WTO allows drug companies to profit from this ‘mass murder'.
“WTO, together with the World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) is the greatest
threat for public health,” said Dr. K Balasubramaniam, former Senior Pharmaceutical Advisor,
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva. “They (WTO, WB
and IMF) should be held responsible for the human suffering caused due to high cost of essential
medicines" said Dr. Balasubramaniam while delivering an Oxfam India Public Lecture on
‘WTO/TRIPS Agreement, the Doha Declaration and the Intellectual Property Bill 2003, Sri
Lanka’.
%
“Public interest groups have just challenged the SriLankan Intellectual Property Bill 2003,” said Dr.
Bala, Colombo based advisor and Co-ordinator for Health Action International Asia - Pacific, a
policy and advocacy network that works for the cause of access to essential drugs and intellectual
property rights issues.
The Sri Lankan Bill was placed in the SriLankan Parliament on 21st May 2003. However, three
petitions have challenged the bill arguing that the bill was inconsistent with the Constitution of Sri
Lanka. The petitioners’ contention was chiefly based on the position that the mitigatory features,
which were incorporated in the TRIPS Agreement, have not been included in the Bill.
“We will step up efforts to challenge the WTO in various forums," said Dr. Ravi Narayan of the
People’s Health Movement (PHM). PHM, a grass root movement spread across the globe,
reiterated their solidarity for pro-justice movements who have been calling global attention on the
anti-poor and anti-people policies of the WTO through their protests in Seattle, Prague, Davos,
Genova and recently Evian.
The Doha Declaration can be a reality only if there are political commitments from individual
countries. Developing countries like India must start taking necessary steps at the national level to
put into effect public health safeguards provided in the TRIPS Agreement and reiterated and
recognized in the Doha Declaration. "It is time to act on the Doha declaration,” said Mr. G Sri
Ramappa, director of Oxfam India, an Indian development and humanitarian agency.
For further media enquiries, please call:
+91-80-363 2964/363 3274
& Mobile:+91 (0) 98450 91319
pH*
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From: ADD India <adduidia@vsnl.net>
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January 7, 2003
Dear Dr. Ravi.
Greetings from ADD India
Thank you very much for giving your time to share information related to
aisaoirity ana globalisation. In tact we took: the case stuay troin the
'Voices of the Unheard" for part of our play. The facts and narrations
were useful to visualize and to be more authentic. The other case
studies we used were the incident at Kasargode and the experience of
people in Puthur near Kodaikanal. The play came out reasonably well.
Moro than the message, I was very happy that disabled persons from rural
community performed in front of a large gathering.
h'ne Drainstorming session with Chandar was very usezul to ne specific on
the message. Please convey my thanks to him and also to Rajendran who
teave me some documents.
?'ith thanks and regards,
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The Week,
Manorama Building,
PB No. 4278,
Kochi - 682 036
Dear Sir,
I read your feature ‘Quicksilver Killer’, the week 10lh August 2003 (page 16-18) with great
interest. It was a balanced report and supported the case for an independent epidemiological
survey as suggested by the Indian People’s Tribunal. As a public health and health policy
research group, we in the Community Health Cell, Bangalore, hosted a presentation by Dr. T.
Rajagopal, HLL’s Corporate Medical Advisor. The team that listened to him and reviewed the
data that was presented included occupational health consultants, physiologist - endocrinologist,
toxicologist, epidemiologist, statistician and analytic chemist and we were unable to give HLL a
'clean chit’, since the sample was opportunistic and the analysis somewhat flawed - details of
which have been shared with them. It was unfortunate that HLL did not present this date
inadequate though it was at the India People’s Tribunal - which was a serious breach of corporate
social responsibility as well.
I think a time has come when doctors within industry or in the profession outside cannot continue
to ‘victim blame’ patients or workers for ‘poor hygiene’ and ‘personal habits’ when the real
reasons for occupation related diseases are lack of adequate occupational health and safety
protection and, even more than, that lack of adequate workers health education on the
occupational hazard. 1 think the media has an important role to focus on this growing
discrepancy.
Ravi Narayan - MD (AllMS), DTPH (London), DIH (UK),
Community Health Advisor
Community Health Cell,
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E-mail: secretariat@phmovement.org Website: http://www.phmovement.org
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Asian Community Health
Action Network (ACHAN)
Consumers InternationalRegional Office for Asia
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Gonoshasthaya Kendra,
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China
East and Central Africa
Europe
India
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North America
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The Editor
The Week,
Manorama Building,
PB No. 4278,
Kochi-682 036
August 8, 2003
Dear Sir,
Your booklet sponsored by Apollo Hospitals on Preventive Medicine - ‘How
to protect yourself against diseases’ was a great disappointment to al! of us in
the medical profession, who are committed to health promotion, preventive
medicine and making people aware of Health as a Right and a responsibility.
Health, as you have pointed out rightly, is not ‘absence of disease’ (WHO
definition) and hence not absence of warning signals. Health is al! about
positive living - accessing balanced food, clean drinking water, hygienic
environment, healthy life styles including refraining from smoking and getting
adequate rest and physical activity apart from recreation and as an informed
citizen supporting social and political choices that help develop a health care
system that would focus on making available to all, irrespective of ability to
pay for these determinants. This year in the Anniversary year of Alma Ata
Declaration on Primary Health Care and Health for All, the title of your
booklet was significant. But the booklet by focusing on ‘Wellness’ as getting
regular checkups and keeping up the corporatization and medicalization of
health by contributing to ‘routine’ check ups and ‘unnecessary use of medical
technology and clinical investigation’ has distorted the whole challenge of
preventive medicine. The Cochrane foundations evidence based medicine has
raised serious doubts about routinization of screening procedure. As a
Professor of Preventive Medicine and presently the coordinator of the Global
Secretariat of the People’s Health Movement, I am not against check ups when
they are necessary, nor against mass screening as part of campaigns against
communicable diseases but presenting Preventive Medicine as looking out for
warning signals rather than promoting healthy life styles is missing the forest
for the trees. It is distorting the Health for All campaign by focusing on Health
for those who can pay!!
Yours disappointed,
Ravi Narayan - M.D (AIIMS), DTPH (London), DIH (UK),
Coordinator,
People’s I-Iealth Movement Global Secretariat,
Bangalore - 560 034
PHM Resource Centre: Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Nayarhat, Dhaka - 1344, Bangladesh
Tel: 880-2-770 83 16, 770 83 35-6; Fax: 880-2-770 83 17; e-mail: gksavar@citechco. net
Secretariat Support Group: Website: Andrew Chetley, UK - chetley.a@healthlink.org.uk,
PHM Exchange: Claudio Schuftan, Vietnam- aviva@netnam.vn,
PHM Media: Unnikrishnan, India -unnikru@yahoo.com, Satya sivaraman, Thailand-satyasagar@yahoo.com
Projects / Finances: Andy Rutherford, UK - arutherford@oneworldaction.org
The People’s Health Assembly - An Alternative Culture or Dialogue
The venue was well chosen. GK is one of the most revolutionary and inspiring
community based health programmes in the world. The physical and social ambience
was fabulous! No five -star hotel for this huge forum: instead, a spacious auditorium
was built behind the tranquil lakes and fields where the GK workers grow good for the
community programme. Building the auditorium was no easy task. Due to heavy rain
and tardy funding, two days before the event the vast structure still had no roof. But
miraculously, it was completed at daybreak the morning the Assembly began - thanks
for the valiant efforts day and night of 1000 workers.
But how did the GK team manage to feed 1500 people in this rural setting? Rather
than bussing folks to restaurants or trucking in costly catered cuisine, they built a
covey of small bpmboo sheds and invited women from neighboring villages to come
prepare traditional food. The chance to perch out-of-doors on handcrafted bpmboo
stools, eating chapattis and dhal while trying to communicate with the gracious village
women, was one of the high points of Assembly. It somehow symbolized what we
were collectively seeking to achieve: an innovative yet ancient way of transcending
the commercial, hierarchical barriers that separate people from one another and their
dreams. It brought us down to earth through the common understanding of each and
everyone’s most fundamental right, above all else - to have enough to eat.
It was during these communal meals, with six or eight of us activist and progressive
from different parts of the world clustered around a table comparing our insights, that
some of the most meaningful and potentially transformative interactions of the PHA
took place. After attending countless international conferences and forums over many
years, this was a marvelous opportunity to chew the fat with so many old friends and
fellow warriors for social justice.
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(Moonlight Square), deals ..c?.: millions of dollars are struck for consignments of such drugs as
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"Toe ceath oenaity is certainly not :oo great for people who are interested only in profiteering, the result of
wnich s mass murder Jmcn Har ’ .mister Sushma Swaraj told IPS.
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’Tne penalty ‘or sale and manufacture of spurious drugs that cause grievous hurt or death should be
enhanced from i fe :n-. prison meet to death " the Mashelkar Committee recommended in its report.
:fre comm, .tees recc: . a. .r. s are fol.owe;! In the premised legislation, offences related io spurious
crags ..-.re be i.-.ade ..on-aa: tree - ano no bail would be granted inside of three months.
Ravi Kant, a senior official in tne drugs control department, thinks that the new laws might just provide
the right deterrent "Over the last 20 years we have not been able to make single case stick."
One of tne nest iv own cases is tret of P K Mehngi, owner of the Duefil Laboratories that runs out of
Bhag.ram Palace cut r.as ima-reacre -,g units in Jaipur city, capital of western Rajasthan slate
Mehngi was fret arrested m '579 on cnarges of manufacturing fake drugs. But he not oniy managed to
get out on na ?_■: rso ras .re-d cosiness while the case has remained pending in the courts. The new
legislation sou d be bad news for 1,'ehngi.
Kant sa.u one cf me ma.;; r..fire.res ...'.in prosecuting the robber Carons of the industry lay in the near
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The committee noted the existence of counterfeit drugs that are exact copies of known brands and which
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"The point :s tnat tne fake drug industry has been growing steadily even if we have been
campaigning against it. This could not have happened except for poor enforcement and the outright
corruption of the inspector of the Drug Control Authority (DCA),“ Unnikrishnan said.
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Saturday, September 13, 2003 12:14 PM
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shades of green.
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PHM Secretariat <phmsec@touchtelindia.net>
Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:54 AM
Re: Fw: MOST URGENT:::::::: This needs Ravis' response , preferrably today. .PHM FlimRAVi please respond urgently
Dear Ravi,
I will contact Tom and convey our consensus that he
should try to raise funds for the filming on his own,
for which purpose a letter of support has already been
sent by PHM.
^Thanks for the clarifications.
regards
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Satya Sivaraman <satyasagar@yahoo.com>
PHM Secretariat <phmsec@touchtelindia.net>
Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:31 AM
Re: Fw: MOST URGENT:::::::::This needs Ravis' response , preferrably today. .PHM FlimRAVi please respond urgently
Dear Ravi,
My sincere apologies for not being able to respond to
all the correspondence on Tom Fawthrop's request for
some funds for filming in Cuba. I have been extremely
busy with work in Bangkok and have just become free a
®aplc of days ago !
I can well appreciate your dilemma and my suggestions
are as follows:
a) My discussion with Tom when I met him in Bangkok
was limited to his getting a letter from PHM to raise
funds from UK trade unions for the filming in Cuba. I
made it very clear to him that PHM will not have the
funds to pay him for any filming. So I suggest that we
ask Tom to find his own funding and contribute the
footage from Cuba for our film if possible.
b) If there is a possibility that US$500 can be made
available at some stage to pay for the footage costs
then PHM can suggest to him that he find his own funds
jg shoot the footage and we will buy it from him later
US$500. However if there is an uncertainity about
raising these funds then PHM should not make this
offer.
To be very frank as far as the film is concerned if we
get the footage from Cuba it is well and good. If we
cannot get it that is no great loss since the film
will deal with a lot of issues from all over the world
i/Ls
anyway.
Once again my apologies for the delay in writing to
A?
you and die confusion caused by the entire episode
with Tom.
regards
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Satya
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<karunshenoy@yahoo.com>
Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:30 AM
Re: Medicines
Dear Karun,
Greetings from PHM Secretariat (Global)!
Hope you managed to contact some of the PHM Resource persons I mentioned on the phone: Prakash Rao
(prakashcrao@yahoo.com): Mira Shiva (mirashiva@yahoo.com): Amit Sengupta (ctddsf@,vsnl.com): and
Anant Phadke (cehatpun@vsni.com).
Arr librarian, Mr. Mahadevaswamy, at CHC has kept aside some of the materials you have requested. They
not easy to email, since we only have hard copies. Please ask your Malayalam Manorama local office to
collect it from CHC. Our telephone numbers are 5531518 and 51280009. Sorry for the difficulty with the 5th
booklet We are looking into it. A hard copy can be collected from the CHC / PHM office as well.
In case your friend comes in the morning (10am - 1pm), you can also meet Dr. C.M. Francis, Consultant,
CHC - who was on the Karnataka Government Health Task Force and an expert on the Drugs / Policy
issues.
Best wishes,
Ravi Narayan
Coordinator, People's Health Movement Secretariat(global)
CHC-Bangalore
#367 "Srinivasa Nilaya"
Jakkasandra 1st Main, I Block Koramangala
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Unnikrishnan <unnikru@yahoo.com>; Satya Sivaraman <satyasagar@yahoo.com>
Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:14 AM
Letter from PHM Secretariat.doc
Fw: Letter from PHM Secretariat
Dear Unni and Sathya,
Greetings from PHM Secretariat (Global)!
I have just sent you both a formal letter of confirmation about the Ecuador initiative. Please acknowledge. The
suggestion about Rome was earlier made in the light of the possibility of the Steering group meeting getting
linked to AIFO Biannual. This had moved to Iran 20th - 23rd October and has now been postponed. The Iran
conference is 29th - 30th November and 1st December and the Steering group on 12th / 13th January linked to
A International Health Forum in Mumbai. So neither of you needs to be there now, since Sunil will manage
tre local AIFO related media work. We have to work out which of you (or both) will be available for the Iran
Alma Ata Anniversary meeting. You could also be resource persons on the same topics as mentioned for the
Latin American initiative. Please confirm.
Incidentally, I am taking a little risk with the advance of 3000$ for the Ecuador visit, since Andy informs me
that the funds of PHM - OWA s low, but I think the film and the event and the need for solidarity is of prime
importance.
Also please utilize this visit to nudge the local committee I PHM group on PHA - II support and process. I
hope Armando will be there and links for potential media work for PHA - II can also be established.
All the best to both of you for your solidarity visit.
Shall miss the support Unni has given as a Bangalore based, high voltage PHM resource person, but this
may now improve Bangalore - Bangkok communications and linkage.
Best wishes,
9yi Narayan
Coordinator, People's Health Movement Secretariat(global)
CHC-Bangalore
#367 "Srinivasa Nilaya"
Jakkasandra 1st Main, I Block Koramangala
Bangalore-560034
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— Original Message —
From: PHM Secretariat
To: Unnikrishnan ; Satya Sivaraman
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 6:13 PM
Subject: Letter from PHM Secretariat
Dr. Ravi Narayan
Coordinator, People's Health Movement Secretariat(global)
CHC-Bangalore
#367 "Srinivasa Nilaya"
9/16/03
9/15/03
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UNNIKRISHNAN PV <unnikru@yahoo.com>
<phmsec@touchtelindia.net>; <aquizhpe@yahoo.com>
<satyasagar@yahoo.com>; <unnikru@yahoo.com>
Sunday, September 14, 2003 1:16 PM
URGENT : Ecuador- This needs immediate Response and Action from Ravi and Arturo
To: Ravi Narayan, PHM Secretariat
Copy: Arturo, Ecuador
From Satya and Unni
Date: 14th Sep 2003
Sub: Suggested visit to Ecuador (and Rome)
•
Dear Ravi (copy to Arturo)
Greetings from Bangkok 1
I met Satya today morning and discussed in detail
about the Ecuador mission. This is joint reply from
both of us.
WHAT ARE OUR ROLES IN ECUADOR:
1) Primarily, we will be filming for the proposed
documentary "Reviving a dream". Tire original proposal
suggested to use Latin
America as an example of resistance. We will use three
ations:
The Che Festival (Oct 13th-17th)
(b) Field visit (17th to 20th)
(c) Some sections of the Primaiy health care congress
(20th to 25th)
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A-tecU-c.
2) We will be facilitating the media work- mainly to
draft press relases and dissemination in the
International media of the Che
festival and Priamry health Care congress.
3) Our invovement (facilitated by the secretariat)
will also be counted as a gesture of solidarity from
the secretariat for teh Latin
American region.
4) We both have been invited to speak during the Che
Festival. We win be making presentations I papers on
(a) Wars and conflicts kill teh dream of ehalth for
all- I will be using frontline cxpercinccs from Iraq,
Afghansitan and from
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other situatiosn like Palestine.
(b) Communicating health in a globalised world
challenges for people based movements- Satya will be
covering the
expereinces of dealing with issues like globalisation
and corporatisation of the media and communciation
systems, digital
^dde and MNC media corporations etc.
5) We will definitely be using this visit to further
two more causes:
(1) Ampliying the scope and work of the PHM media
team/ communication circle in the LA region (At
present
we have only a very few contacts).
(2) Amplifying and expanding the PHM circle on
"Wars, disasters, conflicts and health and
humanitarian Action
in such situatiosn" (Which I am facilitating with
Dr. Rosalie Bertell).
ftojn addition to the above activities, the following
fflso will be undertaken .
Based on the discussions I had with you, you have
expressed the need for both of us (Satya and I) to be
in Rome (from Oct 23rd
evening till 26th) to support the AIFO press
conference (on 24th) and Award ceremony (on 25th and
26th). So we will be making the
booking accordingly. (Rerouting the ticket may attract
some minimal costs. We will let you know in the couple
of days.)
What needs to be done:
1) Ravi, please confirm and authorise the visit with
your filial word and green signal. (This is required at
this stage because, I need to inform ActionAid that I
win be breaking an assignment in China mid way, if I
am going to Ecuador. Today is alreay Sep 14tha nd I
need to tell them in the next two days. Currently, I
am in Bangkok). Similary, Satya also needs to inform
his office, UN ESCAP.
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2) Arturo, we need to process the visa. Please fax
invitations to me and Satya to the following number in
Thailand. It is the
ActionAid number, I will pick up both the faxes. This
is required to process the visa from Kula Lampur, the
nearest Ecuador Embassy in
the region (Both India and Thailand doesn't have
Ecuador Embassies or consulates).
This will attract more time , say a few days, so
kindly fax the invitation ASAP. E-mail invitations are
At adequate. Please fax them to
:+66 2 651 9070
a) Dr. Unnikrishnan PV, Fellow: Humanitarian Action,
ActionAid Asia Regioan Office, Bangkok
b) Satyanaray'h Sivaraman, UN ESCAP, Bangkok.
3) Ravi, Kindly make arrangements to transfer the
money (Travel costs) to Satya.
Name : Satyanarayan Sivaraman,
Bank name: Honkong and Shanghai Banking corporation
Account Number: 001-200-492-080
Type: US dollars
Swift code:HSBC THBK
Address: HSBC Bldg, 4th Floor, 968, Rama IV
Road, Silom, Bangrak, Bangkok- 10500, THailand, Ph:
(^)(0) 2614 4438/ 43
4) From discussions with Ravi, I understand that
Arturo is taking care of our needs (stay, food, local
travel etc) within Ecuador.
Arturo, please confirm this.
Looking forward to hearing from you
In solidarity
Satya and Unni
PS: Please click reply and acknowledge this mail.
There has been server problems in my account.
Global Secretariat: CHC, # 367, Jakkasandra 1st Main, 1st Block, Koramangala,
Bangalore-560 034 India. Tel: 91-80-5128 009/Telefax: 91-80-552 53 72
E-mail: secretariat@phmovement.org Website: http.7Ayww.phmovement.org
TcPunnikrishnan and Satya Slvaraman
Networks
Aslan Community Health
Action Network (ACHAN)
Consumers Intemationak
Regional Office for Asia
and the Pacific (CIROAP)
Dag Hammarskjold
Foundation (DHF)
Gonashasthaya Kendra,
(G<
Health Action
International (HAI) - AsiaPacific - HAIAP
International People's
Health Council (IPHC)
Third World Network
(TWN)
Women's Global Network
for Reproductive Rights
Regions
Central America,
Mexico
and Caribbean
China
East and Central Africa
Europe
India
Middle East and North
Africa
North America
Pacific,
Australia
and
New Zealand
SouM&sia (excl. India)
SotfflRmerica
South East Asia (excl
China)
Southern Africa
West Africa
Past Coordinator
Qasem Chowdhury,
GK, Savar, Bangladesh
Present Coordinator
Ravi Narayan,
CHC, Bangalore, India
September 15,2003
Dear Unni and Sathya,
Greetings from PHM Secretariat (Global)!
Thanks for your letter. This is to note that the PHM Secretariat is very glad that
you both as PHM Resource persons and media / film team will attend the Che
Festival; The Primary Health Care Congress and tire field visit organized by our
PHM Latin American colleagues from 13th to 25th October 2003 at Ecuador, in
global solidarity with their efforts. We have noted that you will:
i.
Film for the proposed documentary ‘Reviving the Dream of Alma
Ata.
ii.
Facilitate media work and press releases for dissemination in the
International media for these Latin American events.
iii.
Make presentations on - (a) War and Conflicts killing the dream of
Health for AU/using frontline experience, from Iraq, Afghanistan and
Palestine^ (b) Communicating health '& a globalized world challenges for people based movements - sharing experiences of
issues like Globalization and Corporatization of media and
communication systems, digital divides and MNC media
corporations.
We hope you both will also:
i.
ii.
Amplify the scope and work of the PHM media team /
communication circle in the Latin American region.
Amplify and expand the PHM circle on war, disasters and conflict health and humanitarian action.
PHM will cover your travel expenses, visa and insurance, while the local hqsts
have offered the support your local expenses. Dr. Andy Rutherford^has been
informed and an advance for travel will be forwarded to you shortly.
Please continuej'our efforts to find some sponsors and donors to join PHM
secretariat in our solidarity efforts. We look forward to your reports from the
region during your visit. The PHM website, Exchange and News briefs will be
happy to disseminate your efforts and your dispatches.
With best wishes from the secretariat team
Ravi Narayan
Coordinator, PHM Secretariat (Global)
PHM Resource Centre: Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Nayarhat, Dhaka -1344, Bangladesh
Tel: 880-2-770 83 16,770 83 35-6; Fax: 880-2-770 83 17; e-mail: gksavargcitechco. net
Secretariat Support Group: Website: Andrew Chetley, UK - chetley.a@healthlink.org.uk;
PHM Exchange: Claudio Schuftan, Vietnam- aviva@netnam.vn;
PHM Madia: Unnikrichnan, Bangalore (India) -unnikru@yahoo.com
Projects / Finances: Andy Rutherford, UK-arutherford@oneworidaction.org
People’s Health Movement
Global Secretariat: CHC, # 367, Jakkasandra 1st Main, 1st Block, Koramangala,
Bangalore - 560 034 India. Tel.: 91-80-5128 0091 Telefax: 91-80-552 53 72
E-mail: secretariat@phmovement.org Website: http://www.phmovement.org
At
REIMBURSEMENT/CLAIM FORM
Networks
Asian Community Health
Action Network (ACHAN)
Consumers InternationalRegional Office for Asia
and the Pacific (CIROAP)
Dag Hammarskjold
Foundation (DHF)
Gonoshasthaya Kendra,
(GK)
Health Action
International (HAI) - Asia-
Event/Purpose :
Name of Claimant/s:
Ecuador Visit - 13lh to 25'h October 2003
1. Satyanarayan Sivaraman
2. Unnikrishnan PV
Organisation:
1. UN ESCAP, Bangkok
2. Action Aid, Bangkok
Address
129/16, Soi Potharam, T. Chang Puak, A. Munag,
Chiang Mai 50300, Thailand
Pacific - HAIAP
International People's
Health Council (IPHC)
Third World Network
(TWN)
Women's Global Network
for Reproductive Rights
Telephone:
Fax:
Email:
66-53-213195
satyasagar@yahoo.com
Name of Bank:
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
Address:
HSBC Bldg, 4,h Floor, 968, Rama IV Road, Silom,
Bangrak, Bangkok - 10500, Thailand.
Tel: 66-0-2614 4438/43
Regions
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
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•
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Central
America,
Mexico
and Caribbean
China
East and Central Africa
Europe
India
Middle
East
and
North
Africa
North America
Pacific,
Australia
and
New Zealand
South Asia (excl. India)
South America
South
East
Asia
(excl.
China)
Southern Africa
West Africa
Account Name:
Account Number:
001-200-492-080
Advance of 3000 US S
Amount of Claim:
Figures including currency
In words: Three Thousand dollars - US
Travel, visa and insurance support for trip for Che
Justification/details: festival - 13"' to 17"' October; Field visit for film - 17th
to 20lh and Primary Health Care Congress - 20"' to
25'" October.
Past Coordinator
Qasem Chowdhury,
GK, Savar, Bangladesh
Present Coordinator
Ravi Narayan,
CHC, Bangalore, India
Approved by: Ravi Narayan
Date:
16"’ September 2003
Paid by:
Date:
Signature of claimant
Date:
PHM Resource Centre: Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Nayarhat, Dhaka - 1344, Bangladesh
Tel: 880-2-770 83 16, 770 83 35-6; Fax 880-2-770 83 17; e-mail: gksavar@citechco. net
Secretariat Support Group: Website: Andrew Chetley, UK - chetley.a@healthlink.org.uk;
PHM Exchange: Claudio Schuftan, Vietnam- aviva@netnam.vn;
PHM Media: Unnikrishnan, India -unnikru(ajyahoo.com, Satya sivaraman, Thailand - satyasagar@yahoo.com
Projects / Finances: Andy Rutherford, UK - arutherford@oneworldaction.org
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Unnikrishnan <unnikru@yahoo.com>; Satya Sivaraman <satyasagar@yahoo.com>
Wednesday, September 17, 2003 5:15 PM
Advance Fund
Dear Sathya and Unni,
Greetings from PHM Secretariat (Global)!
Further to my formal (on letterhead) and informal communication (email) sent to you both about the Ecuador
trip, I have also just received confirmation about the transfer of 3000$ to Sathya's account as per your
request as advance for travel, visas etc. Please keep the costs as low as possible, since we are in a 'real
crunch; in PHM funds. Also acknowledge both Andy and us when the advance is received and keep us
jjormed as the preparations get underway.
Unni - could you let us know a little more about the China visit, because it may be possible to alert some
Chinese PHM contacts at Amity foundation so that a complementary PHM agenda could be added to the visit
if at all feasible. We are forwarding separately the list of 11 participants from China to PHA - I. We need
urgently a name to be shown as China contact point.
Best wishes,
Ravi Narayan
Coordinator, People's Health Movement Secretariat(global)
CHC-Bangalore
#367 "Srinivasa Nilaya”
Jakkasandra 1st Main, I Block Koramangala
Bangalore-560034
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J— - Original Message
From: Andy Rutherford
To: PHM Secretariat
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: Re:replies
Dear Ravi
Thanks again for your rapid response.
1. Transfer to Satya made.
2.1 don't believe that I have Anil's summary' for the Hesperian/Ford claim. Could he/you send it to
me please.
3. Look forward to CID A input
4. Thanks for everything else.
Best wishes
9/18/03
Lor ef
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Subject:
Andy Rutherford <arutherford@oneworldaction.org >
PHM Secretariat <phmsec@touchtelindia.net>
Tuesday, September 16, 2003 7:53 PM
Re: Re:replies
Dear Ravi
Thanks again for your rapid response.
1. Transfer to Satya made.
2.1 don't believe that I have Anil's summary for the Hesperian/Ford claim. Could he/you send it to me
please.
ALook forward to CIDA input
4. Thanks for everything else.
Best wishes
Andy Rutherford
Head of Programmes
One World Action
Bradley's Close
White Lion Street
London N1 9PF
Tel
Fax
44-20-7833-4075
44-20-7833-4102
or (020) 7833 4075
or (020) 7833 4102
www.oneworldaction.org
direct email
<-andy@oneworldaction.org:>
CHINA Contact Addresses
Chen Yarning
Amity Foundation
71, Hankou Road,
Nanjing 210 008
China
Tel: 86-25-3304022. Fax: 86-25-6631701
Cui Xue Guang
Provincial Health Bureau,
Ningxia Department of Public Health,
47, Jie Fang West Street, Yinchuan,
Nin Xia, China
Tel: 86-951-5054759. Fax: 0951-5030674
Ma Chun Lan
The Western Medical Coordination,
Office of the Amity Foundation,
50, Donggang West Road,
Lanzhou Health School,
China
Tel: 86-0931-8264717
Wang Jin Zhu,
Amity Foundation
71, Hankou Road,
Nanjing 210008
Tel: 86-25-330-4222
Fax: 86-25-663-1701
Yang Wen
Amity' Foundation
71, Hankou Road,
Nanjing-210 008
China
Tel: 86-951-5054759
Fax: 0951-5030674
Huang Mutao
The Provincial Health Bureau,
77, Changjia Lane, Lanzhou,
Gansu Province
China
Tel: 86-931-8813476
Fax: 0931-8264727
Email: huangmt@gshealth.com
Cheng Li
Amity Foundation
71, Hankou Road,
Nanjing,
China JS 210 008
Tel: 86-25-3304022. Fax: 86-25- 6631701
Li Xiaosong,
Guizhou Provincial Sanitation and Anti
Epidemic Station,
40, Bageyan Road,
Guiyang City, Guizhou,
China
Email: iixs95@.publ ic.gy.gz.cn
Ms. Li En Lin,
Amity Foundation,
71, Hankou Road, Nanjing,
China JS 210 008
Tel: 86-25-330-4022
Fax: 86-25-663 1701
Email: afn71 ©public 1 .ptt.is.cn
Wang Yin
The Western Medical Coordination
Office of the Amity Foundation
50, Donggang West Road,
Lanzhou, Gansu 301, Office Building,
Gansu Health School,
China
Tel: 86-931-8264717
Fax: 0931-8264727
Yao Ming,
Amity Foundation
71, Hankou Road,
Nanjing 210 008
China
Tel: 86-25-330-42222
Fax: 86-25-663-1701
■■
PHM Secretariat
From:
UNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr) <unnikru@yahoo.com>
To:
Cc:
PATiBANDLA RAM <sanjeevi_72@yahoo.com>
PHM Secretariat <phmsec@touchtelindia.net>
Sent:
Subject:
Monday, September 22, 2003 3:43 PM
PHM media- thanks
Dear Dr. Rao
PHM appreciates your support. We hope to come back to you soon !
Regards
Unni
----- Original Message-----From: "PATIBANDLA RAM" -sanjeevi 72@yahoo.com
To: "UNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr)" <unnikru@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 2:01 AM
Abject: Re: [pha-ncc] PHM media team needs your help- (1) to compile facts,
figures, statistics and data (2) media facilitation work
> i am ready for the job.my
> address:Dr.P.RamMohanRao,KHALEELWADI, NIZAMABAD. A.P.
> INDIA-503003.email-rmpatibandla@yahoo.co.uk> phone08462-232049.cellphone 98480-71049.1 Can work in
> telenganadisticts of A.P. Can translate into local
> telugu language. Thankyou
> — "UNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr)" <unnikru@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Dear friends in PHM
> > This mail is to seek your support for two things:
> > 1) To make PHM press releases more updated and 'hard
> > hitting', media team is putting together few facts
A> sheets that will have updated and useful (read
> > "chilling") facts and figures. In press releases,
> > facts and figures will speak louder than words and
> > We would like each one of you to send us atleast one
> > fact/ figure (before or in 1978 and 2002/ 2003) that
> > is relevant to the work you are doing. It may be
> > about your country or international. Please give us
> > the source .
7
> > For example, we hope someone from Philippines will
> > give us a one-line response that will state :
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> > l)Per Capita health expenditure in Philippines: 1978
2002 2003 (xxxxxxx????): Source
> > If possible, please give us the contrast with any
> > other data.For example,
> > During the same period, the military expenditure in
> > Philippines : 1978 (xxxxxxxxxxxx): Source: UNDP
2002' 2003 (xxxxxxx????):
> > Source
> > Please note that the facts and figures you provide
> > will be used for PHM press releases, so please
> > ensure the authenticity and accuracy. We will NOT be
> > able to use any data if you donot source it. We will
> > create a link on the PHM website (click "vital
> > statistix" ) and upload the same when we have
> > atleast 50 such useful data. (Please limit your
> > response in one or two lines. Please do NOT send us
long papers).
> > Volunteers are most welcome. We hope
> > researchers/statisticians/ others will join us.
> > 2) We are developing a list of people who could help
> > to disseminate PHM media messages in their
> > respective countries/ region/ locality. If you would
> > like to be pan of this team, please send
> > (a) your name and contact details, including
> > phone, fax etc.
> > (b) the country/ places you would be able to
> > focus. Kindly indicate whether you could take
> > responsibility to translate press
> > releases to your local language ?
> > We hope you will hit the ’reply’ button straightaway
and respond!
> > Activities related to ’25 years of Alma Ata’ sounds
> > very promising, 'vlessages from all of over indicate
> > that there are several events that will be organised
> > locally, nationally and internationally. PHM media
> > team suggests that we use these events to profile
> > PHM in the media. PHM media team (of volunteers)
> > will provide all possible off-site support. We will
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> > also put efforts to get international media coverage
V V
> Looking forward to your co-operation and solidarity'.
V V
> > for these events.
> phmsec@touchteiindia.net
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> > Unni
> > Dr.Urinikrishnan PV, India : E-mail:
> > unnikmg\ahoo.com Ph (M): +91 (0) 98450 91319
> > 30,000 children will die in the next 24 hours from
> > preventable diseases.
> > Click ww.ThcMi11ionSignaturcCampaign.org , to join
> > a campaign that demands HEALTH FOR ALL NOW '
> Dr.P.RamMohanRao
>
Genaral Secretary,J. V.V.A.P.
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From:
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Sent:
Attach:
Subject:
PHM Secretariat <phmsec@touchtelindia.net>
UNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr) <unnikru@yahoo.com>; Satya Sivaraman <satyasagar@yahoo.com>
Tuesday, September 23, 2003 1:44 PM
Alma ATa Anniversary Pack - Page 2.doc
Re: Advance Fund
Dear Unni and Sathya,
Greetings from PHM Secretariat (Global)!
Thanks for your mail of 21st September. I shall probably now be in Iran from 1st October to 5*11
October. So meet Prasanna when you visit Bangalore and keep him informed. Hope the Visa matter
As sorted out. I have just sent the Iran meeting funding proposal (PHM share of 40 resource persons
and participants to CIDA via Andy. You and Sathya are included in the lists. So if the funds come, you
may have to mark Teheran in your calendar, 29“ / 30th November and 1st December. Keep in touch
about Ecuador and tire Books for Change publications.
Enclosed the re-written page in the Alma Ata dossier.
Best wishes,
Ravi Narayan
Coordinator, People's Health Movement Secretariat(global)
CHC-Bangalore
#367 "Srinivasa Nilaya”
Jakkasandra 1st Main, I Block Koramangala
B angalore-560034
Join the "Health for all, NOW" campaign in the 25th anniversary7 year of the .Alma Ata
declaration visit www.TheMillionSignatureCampaign.ore
..... Original Message —
From: UNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr)
To: PHM Secretariat
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: Advance Fund
Dear Ravi
Thanks for the facilitation. Satya is in Chiang Mai and will confirm the funds transfer on Monday.
We have been inn touch with Arturo on this visa issue. It is really in a tight spot now. We hope something
gets done by Tuesday.The only Ecuadorian Embassy in the region (including Thailand and India) is in
Kuala Lumpur. The embassy insists for a personal interview to process visa. I have spoken to the visa
officer several times and they are re in touch with the ministry of foreign affairs and Arturo directly. But
nothing ahs happened yet. We have filed the papers and are hoping to get an exception from visiting Kuala
Lumpur (Time wise, it is impossible for us to go to Kuala Lumpur).
However, we have processed a Malaysian visa as a back up, just in case this becomes necessary. I am
going to Bombay on 26th morning and may be in Bangalore on Oct 2nd. Shall call you.
9/23/03
9/22/03
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PHM Secretariat
From:
To:
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UNNIKRISHNAN PV (Dr) <unnikru@yahoo.com>
PHM Secretariat <phmsec@touchtelindia.net>
Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:34 AM
Re: Advance Fund
Dear Ravi
Thanks for the facilitation. Satya is in Chiang Mai and will confirm the funds transfer on Monday.
We have been inn touch with Arturo on this visa issue. It is really in a tight spot now. We hope something
gets done by Tuesday.The only Ecuadorian Embassy in the region (including Thailand and India) is in Kuala
Lumpur. The embassy insists for a personal interview to process visa. I have spoken to the visa officer
several times and they are re in touch with the ministry of foreign affairs and Arturo directly. But nothing ahs
happened yet. We have filed the papers and are hoping to get an exception from visiting Kuala Lumpur (Time
j^se, it is impossible for us to go to Kuala Lumpur).
However, we have processed a Malaysian visa as a back up, just in case this becomes necessary. I am
going to Bombay on 26th morning and may be in Bangalore on Oct 2nd. Shall call you.
I am yet to see the draft of the Alma Ata publication. I will send it the moment it is ready. They are busy with a
book on earthquake that must be released on Sep 30th. Please send me the corrected version of the one
jage indicating where it must be replaced. Please send it to me directly as it may not be advisable to deal
wrffTBodks for Change directly. (Fund issues re yet being sorted out).
China: The actual programme is from Oct 11th till 16th. ActionAid is slightly upset that I am leaving after the
first three days. In the present situation, I may call off the visit to China . In this case, I may go again in
November/ December. I will update you on this after I met with the team here on Tuesday.
Regards
Ll/vzvL
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TTt
9-— Original Message
From: PHM Secretariat
To: Unnikrishnan ; Satya Sivaraman
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 6:45 PM
Subject: Advance Fund
Dear Sathya and Unni,
J
Greetings from PHM Secretariat (Global)!
Further to my formal (on letterhead) and informal communication (email) sent td you both about the
Ecuador trip, I have also just received confirmation about the transfer of 3000$ to Sathya's account as per
your request as advance for travel, visas etc. Please keep the costs as low as possible, since we are in a
'real crunch; in PHM funds. Also acknowledge both Andy and us when the advance is received and keep
us informed as the preparations get underway.
Unni - could you let us know a little more about the China visit, because it may be possible to alert some
Chinese PHM contacts at Amity foundation so that a complementary PHM agenda could be added to the
visit if at all feasible. We are forwarding separately the list of 11 participants from China to PHA - I. We
need urgently a name to be shown as China contact point.
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UNN.KRiSrrNAN P.V. (Dr) <unnikru@yahoo.com>
7 hursday October 16, 2003 10.40 AM
Re MOS’" URGENT ::: Attn : Prasanna
Dear Unni.
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Prasanna will attend to 1 and 2. I have just taken action on 3.
The ar. trip was hectic, but useful. You must have seen the communications. Except for the 'final' change of
dates to 5'" - 71- December everything eise went according to schedule. The conference is in their National
Institute of Radio and TV - the best communication facility in Teheran, allowing for all sorts of additional
possibilities including the announcement of the Teheran Declaration' on 8& December (PHA - Anniversary)
to ah over the wond. Hope the dates are not inconvenient for you and Sathya. Please get in touch with
Barzgar m barzqar@hotmail.conT) to find out more details about the center and its facilities. He is banking
on you both for rhe Media strategy. The MOH - Iran have their own ideas as well but I feel some PHM ■■
...
ss-fert ization of ideas need to takeplace.
The Nobel Peace Prize for Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Human Rights Lawyer, who has worked on women and
children issues among other things could be a good point of action.
What's the latest on the Alma Ata Pack? Can we introduce 4-6 pages on Iran in page 24 - 35 (the blank
space?
Best w shes
Ravi Narayan
P.S: How did the Ecuador meeting go?
Dr. Ravi Narayan
Coordinator, People's Health Movement Secretariatfglobal)
CHC-Bangalorc
-367 "Srinivasa Nilaya"
Jakltasandra 1st Main. I Block Koramangala
Bangalore-560034
Join the "Health for all, NOW" campaign in the 25th anniversary year of the .Alma Ata
Csil www.TlieMillionSignatureCampaign.org
I — Original Message —
‘ Fro;.:: UNNIKRISHNAN P.V. (Dr)
■ To: phmsec@touchteiindia.net
: Cc: tnarayan@vsnl.com ; Community Health Cell
10/16/03
?’ ;M Secretariat
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UNNXRISHNAN P.V. (Dr) <unnikru@yahoo.com>
<phmsec@touchtelindia.net>
<tnarayan@vsnl com>; Community Health Cell <sochara@vsnl com>
Tuesday, October 14, 2003 8:40 AM
,’ZOST URGEiNT ::: Attn ; Prasanna
Greetings from Ecuador I
■ am sure you must be busy, but let me take up three issues that needs your urgent attention.
.. ir'n reference to our last discussions at the PHM secretariat on the million signature campaign, I would like
to update you on three points.
1) I have not received the Kannada translated page yet. Could you update me on the current situation ? Who
is working on this ?
Doi Id yot
ase (or request some one in CHC) to forward the mail I have requested (This is a mail send
me, with t
py to PHM secretariat, at that time in CHC that attached a page and instructions to people in
different parts cf the world about how to set up the language versions of the site.
Two versions re getting ready- Arabic and Philippine language in the enxt few days.
mo-eever, we need to send the same mail to Dr. Barzgar. PLEASE CONSIDER SPENDING FIVE MINUTES
FOR ME AND please forward the same ASAP.
D!ease refer to my last mail regarding the letter that needs to be send end to CHAI This suggestion from
-r e is based on what we have agreed with CHAI during the last telephonic conversation. CHAI people are
.•vaiting for this. This letter must go on PHM letter head and signed by Ravi.
Please consider spending ten minutes and send this letter ASAP.
FA
Locking forward to hearing from you
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Regards
Or.Unnikrishnan PV
Fellow: Humanitarian Action
ActionAid - Asia Regional Office, Bangkok, THAILAND
Tel: +66 2 651 9066-9 ; Fax: +66 2 651 9070
E-mail: unni@actionaidasia.org (office) / unnikru@yahoo.com (personal)
a.;oo messenger: unnikru@yahoo.com / MSN Messenger, unnikru@hotmail.com
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Bangalore - 560 034 India. Tel.: 91-80-5128 009 / Telefax: 91-80-552 53 72
E-mail: secretariat@phmovement.org Website: http://www.phmovement.org
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RE1MBURSEMENT/CLAIM FORM
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Asian Community Health
Action Network (ACHAN)
Consumers InternationalRegional Office for Asia
and the Pacific (CIROAP)
Dag Hammarskjold
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Gonoshasthaya Kendra,
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2. Action Aid, Bangkok
Address
129/16, Soi Potharam, T. Chang Puak, A. Munag,
Chiang Mai 50300, Thailand
Pacific - HAIAP
International People's
Health Council (IPHC)
Third World Network
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Women's Global Network
for Reproductive Riohts
Ecuador Visit - 13'" to 25"' October 2003
Telephone:
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66-53-213195
satyasagar@yahoo.com
Name of Bank:
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
Central
America,
Mexico Address:
HSBC Bldg, 4lh Floor, 968, Rama IV Road, Silom,
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Bangrak, Bangkok - 10500, Thailand.
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Swift Code: HSBC THBK
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to 20lh and Primary Health Care Congress - 2O'h to
25,h October.
Past Coordinator
Qasem Chowdhury,
GK, Savar, Bangladesh
Approved by: Ravi Narayan
Present Coordinator
Date:
Ravi Narayan,
CHC, Bangalore, India
16"1 September 2003
Paid by:
Date:
Signature of claimant
Date:
PHM Resource Centre: Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Nayarhat, Dhaka - 1344, Bangladesh
Tel: 880-2-770 83 16. 770 83 35-6: Fax: 880-2-770 83 17; e-mail: gksavar@citechco. net
Secretariat Support Group: Website: Andrew Chetley, UK - chetley.a@healthlink.org.uk;
PHM Exchange: Claudio Schuftan, Vietnam- aviva@netnam.vn;
PHM Media: Unnikrishnan, India -unnikru(ajyahoo.com, Satya sivaraman, Thailand - satyasagar@yahoo.com
Projects / Finances: Andy Rutherford, UK - arutherford@oneworldaction.org
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on HIV/ AIDS in Iran
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Fellow. Human.tarian Action
lActionAid - Asia Regional Office, Bangkok, THAILAND
Tel: +66 2 65'- 9066-9 ; Fax: +66 2 651 9070
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UNNIKRISHNAN P.V. (Dr) <unnikru@yahoo.com>
Claudio Schuftan <aviva@netnam.vn>
Saturday, November 22, 2003 5:14 PM
Re: Alma Ata publication- The back ground, process and an update
Dear Unni,
Greetings from PHM Secretariat (Global)!
Thanks for the update on the Alma Ata Anniversary publication. I appreciate the methodical way the
whole process and output has been outlined. I wish more PHM members would give short reports like
this for record, News brief, Exchange and website. Keep it up.
Best wishes,
Ravi Narayan
---- Original Message —
From: UNNIKRISHNAN P.V. (Dr)
To: phmsec@touchtelindia.net
Cc: Maria Hamlin Zuniga ; mike@medact.org ; marian.stoffers@wemos.nl; Community Health Cell;
MelinaWGNRR ; Prem Chandran John ; Dr Qasem Chowdhury; ARTURO QUIZHPE ;
ekbal@vsnl.com ; Mira Shiva
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:10 AM
Subject: Alma Ata publication- The back ground, process and an update
Dear Ravi (copy to Maria, Mike, Marjan, Thelma, Nadia, Prem, Quasem, Ekbal, Mira)
This is a short update on the Alma Ata publication:
The idea to bring this out as a print publication came mainly to address the need for something for the
media. Efforts were put to convert the soft copy of the "Alma Ata pack" into a print publication.
Firstly, request was made to IPHC/ WEMOSZ MEDACT to get permission to include the papers that
appeared in the joint publication they brought out in the beginning of the year. The permission was
given INSTANTLY for the reprint as well as to use their logos on the back cover.
Secondly, attempts were put to get this published by Books For Change (BFC-a development
publishing unit of ActionAid) under no-loss/ no-profit terms. Moreover requests to subsidize the
publication was also made to BFC. BFC has put attempts to honor the request.
Next step was to get permission from GK to get it published by BFC. (There was an earlier decision to
get all publications printed and published at GK
press). It was explained to GK that BFC will be able to subsidize it only if it published through BFC as
BFC is not a donor and can't fund publications printed elsewhere.
During the process, new papers that came in after the release of soft copy of the "Alma Ata pack" was
added. Limited editing work was done and the book was printed.
Before it went for print a mail was circulated to the PHM steering group suggesting that if there are bulk
ore publication orders from any of the organizations in the steering group, it will helo to subsidize the
book. While no financial support was sought from the organizations, it was suggested that if they can
buy minimum 200 copies (@ US $1) it will bring down the cost. We also agreed that if pre-publication
orders come, we will add the logo of such organizations on the back cover. (Just in case they were
using the money from their1 visibility funds').
11/21/03
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UNNIKRISHNAN P.V. (Dr) <unnikru@yahoo.com>
<phmsec@touchtelindia.net>
Maria Hamlin Zuniga <iphc@cablenet.com.ni>; <mike@medactorg>;
<maijan.stoffers@wemos.nl>; Community Health Cell <sochara@vsnl.com>; MelinaWGNRR
<wahc@wgnrr.nl>; Prem Chandran John <prem_john@vsnl.net>; Dr Qasem Chowdhury
<gksavar@citechco.net>; ARTURO QUIZHPE <aquizhpe@yahoo.com>; <ekbal@vsnl.com>;
Mira Shiva <mirashiva@yahoo.com>
Friday, November 21, 2003 10:10 AM
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This is a short update on the Alma Ata publication:
^he idea to bring this out as a print publication came mainly to address the need for something for the
media. Efforts were put to convert the soft copy of the "Alma Ata pack" into a print publication.
Firstly, request was made to IPHC/ WEMOS/ MEDACT to get permission to include the papers that
appeared in the joint publication they brought out in the beginning of the year. The permission was given
INSTANTLY for the reprint as well as to use their logos on the back cover.
Secondly, attempts were put to get this published by Books For Change (BFC-a development publishing
unit of ActionAid) under no-loss/ no-profit terms. Moreover requests to subsidize the publication was also
made to BFC. BFC has put attempts to honor the request.
Next step was to get permission from GK to get it published by BFC. (There was an earlier decision to get
all publications printed and published at GK
press). It was explained to GK that BFC will be able to subsidize it only if it published through BFC as
BFC is not a donor and can't fund publications printed elsewhere.
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added. Limited editing work was done and the book was printed.
Before it went for print, a mail was circulated to the PHM steering group suggesting that if there are bulk
pre publication orders from any of the organizations in the steering group, it will help to subsidize the
book. While no financial support was sought from the organizations, it was suggested that if they can buy
minimum 200 copies (@ US $1) it will bring down the cost. We also agreed that if pre-publication orders
come, we will add the logo of such organizations on the back cover. (Just in case they were using the
money from their ’ visibility funds').
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In October first wegkMOO advance copies of the incomplete book was taken as a dummy to Ecuador
(for the CHE AND ESPAJEO FORUM) and it was distributed there. The original idea was to get it formally
launched by Che's daughter if she was coming there. She was not there. Thanks to Arturo's
facilitation, some of the leading lights of the health and popular movements in Latin America mainly
Ecuador, talked about the campaign and the book during the wonderful programme in Ecuador in
October. Some of the suggestions that came from Ecuador was incorporated.
In November first week. The complete book, with all the new 8 papers, reprints (from the IPHC/
WEMOS/ MEDACT) publication and some relevant press statements from PHM and others (specifically
related to Alma Ata campaign) are the contents. The back cover is the Million Signature campaign and
the inside back cover is the Snakes and ladders" ; inside front cover is PHM songs and Copy left credits
Thanks to Deien's facilitation the book was formally launched by Satur Ocampo, President of Bayan
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Muna (People First), Philippines who as a key note speaker during the International Conference on health
care amidst War and Globalization, in Manila, in November beginning, the conference was organized
jointly by many progressive groups, including PHM Philippines., IPHC, MATW and others.
A senior health worker and a medical student, representing the student union received the first copies
from Mr. Ocampo. The 100 copies that was taken there was an instant hit, some were sold , some were
given as free copies.
The copies are available from BFC @ US $ 1 per copy + postage and it may be priced as US $ 2 outside
India (+ postage)
Note: The web address of the WGNRR was wrong on the back cover. It is being corrected, except for the
100 copies that is already in circulation. Thanks to Prasanna's facilitation, the final correct version of the
book is in the PHM home page.
I hope this information helps and are for records.
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From:
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UNNIKRISHNAN P.V. (Dr) <unnikru@yahoo.com>
<pha-ncc@yahoogroups.com>
Tuesday, November 25, 2003 10:09 PM
[pha-ncc] Fw: Asian AIDS Epidemic Is Worsening : TIME TO ACT- an ActionAid report says
time is running out
Associated Press:
Report: Asian AIDS Epidemic Is Worsening
2 hours, 46 minutes
ago
By VIJAY JOSHI, Associated Press Writer
BANGKOK, Thailand - HIV (news - web sites) is spreading faster
in Asia than in Africa, and the Asian AIDS (news - web sites) epidemic
is worsening because of complacent governments, inadequate health
care and widespread prejudice, a new report has warned.
'Time to Act," released Tuesday by ActionAid-Asia says HIV/AIDS
has reached a critical point in the region and is threatening millions
of lives in India, China and other populous nations.
ActionAid-Asia is part of the global development group ActionAid,
which works in 40 countries.
"It is both a cause and consequence of poverty and human rights
violations," the report said, adding that unprotected sex, drug abuse
and unsafe medical practices are the triggers that are helping the
epidemic to spread.
In Asia 7.2 million people are now living with the virus, five million of
them in India and China. An estimated half million people died of
AIDS and almost one million contracted HIV in the last year in Asia.
Africa has 29 million infected people.
"Asia may not be Africa, but the early warning signals are scary and
clear. Africas experience shows HIV/AIDS can destroy development
gains of several decades and social composition of peoples in a
single stroke," the report said.
It warns that seemingly low prevalence rates in countries such as
India and China are disguising huge actual numbers and the existence
of hotspots of infection.
"At the same time grossly inadequate surveillance systems are
compounding and encouraging complacency," it said.
But it is the seriousness of localized epidemics in several countries
that make predictions for the spread of HIV really terrifying, according
to the report.
For example, in many parts of China, which has an estimated 1
million peopie infected, the public heaith system is in chaos.
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The country's inadequate health infrastructure, a lack of trained
doctors and social workers and poor supervision compounds the risk
of developing drug resistant "super-infections," the report says.
In Afghanistan (news - web sites), government statistics state there
are just 15 infections in a population of 22 million.
But the figures are "likely to vastly understate the problem in a country
beset by conflict, massive movement of people, desperate poverty and
a growing drug problem," said Philippa Sackett of ActionAid
Afghanistan.
The report notes that up to 7,000 Nepali girls are trafficked into Indian
brothels every year, and over 100,000 are currently employed as
prostitutes in India's commercial capital, Bombay, a large number of
them infected with HIV.
^Vhilst prevalence rates in Japan remain well below one percent, with
^ust 12,595 infected, experts fear the actual number is five times
higher.
Unprotected sex among young Japanese is a major cause of new
infections fueled by lack of awareness, increasing sexual activity and
declining condom use, the report said.
It says weak laws are failing to protect the rights of people living with
HIV/AIDS, who are subject to discrimination and stigmatization.
"Whilst public health specialists recommend public education and
prevention, lawmakers prefer testing, criminalization and deportation,
driving the epidemic underground," it said.
The report urges governments to learn from initiatives that have
yielded positive results elsewhere, and to work together to ensure that
pharmaceutical companies reduce the price of essential medicines.
"Compassion and a humane response are necessary to deal with
JhlV/AIDS," said ActionAid-Asia's director, John Samuel.
"But compassion cannot be a substitute for government action. Health
care is not a matter of charity but a right," he said.
+++++
Dr.Unnikrishnan PV
Fellow: Humanitarian Action
ActionAid - Asia Regional Office, Bangkok, THAILAND
Tel: +66 2 651 9066-9 ; Fax: +66 2 651 9070
E-mail: unni@actionaidasia.org (office) / unnikru@yahoo.com
(personal)
Yahoo messenger: unnikru@yahoo.com I MSN Messenger:
unnikru@hotmail.com
Website: www.actionaid.ora
fighting poverty together
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actionaid
IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS, OVER 50,000
CHILDREN WILL DIE world wide from
preventable diseases. Join www.TheMillionSianatureCampaion.org a
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From:
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PHM - Secretarial -secretariat@phmovement.org>
UNNIKRISHNAN P.V.(Dr.) <unnikru@vsnl.com>; Satya Sivararnan <satyasagar@yahoo.com>
Andy Rutherford <arutherford@oneworldaction.org>; Arturo Quizhpe <aquizhpe@yahoo.com>
Friday, December 12. 2003 4:55 PM
Reimbursement
Dear Unni) Sathya,
Greetings from PHM Global Secretariat!
We need urgently a full account of your trip to Quito / Cuenca since we need to get them reimbursed to PHM
account from an organization that has agreed to support - PHM coordination related travel. Please also
mention all that Arturo and friends covered locally. So please treat this as urgent and send all the bills /
kjuchers to me as soon as possible for authorization and forwarding io Andy Rutherford of PHIvl-UK. The
mrant transferred to you before the visit was an advance. Urgent action will help improve our precarious
finances for the IHF-WSF event.
Awaiting a prompt reply.
Best wishes.
Ravi Narayan
Coordinator. People's Health Movement Secretariat (Global)
CHC-Bangalore
$36/ Srinivasa Nilaya
I Block Jakkasandra, I Block Koramangala
Bangalore-560034
Tel: 00 91 80 51280009 (Direct)
Fax: 00 91 80 5525372
website: www.phmcvement.orc
Join the "Health for all, NOW" campaign in the 25th anniversary year of the
Alma Ata declaration visit www.TheMiliionSinatureCampaign.org
12/12/03
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SivlL^cretariat
From:
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Andy Rutherford <a:utherford@oneworldaction.org>
PHM - Secretariat <secretariat@phmovement org>
Thursday, December 11.2003 9:22 AM
Re: Transfer of 10.000S
Dear Ravi
I ou are brilliant in many ways! Congratulations on all the FnN (Friends and Neighbours) possibilities
that you are pushing on.
rhe request for the transfer of SI 0.000 has gone to our finance department and they will process
tomorrow as it is too late for today. I will process the reimbursement for Prern's travel to UK and your
■ravel to London and leharan, as well as Along with Unni & Sathya's bills on receipt.
Best wishes
Andy Rutherford
Head of Programmes
One World Action
Bradley's Close
White Lion Street
London N1 9PF
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UNNIKRISHNAN P.V. (Dr) <unnikru@yahOo.com>
PHM - Secretariat <secretariat@phmovement.org>: Sarah Shannon <sarahs@hesperian.org>:
<sarj64@rediffrriaii.com>
Jeff Conant <ieff@hespenan.org>
Wednesday, December 24. 2003 9 12 PM
Re. Magazine articie
Dear Ms. Sarita
Greetings from the People’s Health Movement !
Apologies if there is already a message from Dr. Ravi Narayan. PHM is a
decentralised movement and don't be surprised if you hear from many.
With reference to Sarah Shannon's mail, let me list out a few possible
"story” ideas . For details on PHM, please visit www.phmovement, org: The
section on PHA 2000 will give you rhe history and backgr ound.
1) In the next 24 hours, 30,000 children will worldwide from preventable
diseases. WHO, UNICEF and the international community promised to save these
lives through the historic Alma Ata declaration 25 years ago (The
declaration promised "HEALTH FOR ALL BY 2000 AD".) Visit
www.ThelvIillionSignatureCamDaign.org to know more about PHM's Internet based
campaign on this.
What happened to this dream commitment? You will meet several people .
associated with the People's Health Movement in Mumbai. Please come for the
International Health Forum scheduled for 14th and 15th of January at YMCA.
Mumbai. Details are available at www.phmovemen t. org (Please write to
Drasannaffrphmovement. org for logistics )
2) PHM registers strong objections to the way in which the health issue has
been taken (read hijacked) by International Financial institutions (WB, IMF,
et al). Again, you will meet people international experts who can justify
why PHM opposes the WB/ IMF policies- well, with facts and figures.
3) New diseases and old responses- what does new diseases like SARS, HIV etc
mean in the changed global context ? What is at stake for ordinary people ?
4) Wars, conflicts and military occupation is perhaps the biggest block in
achieving health for all- you will hear testimonies from ordinaiy people
from Vietnam (Survivors of agent orange), Afghanistan (DU weapons), Iraq
(Sanctions, smart bombs, WMD) -^Palestine-- the former environment minister
of Ecuador speaking about the impacts of Chemical spraying in Pan Columbian
regionNo: 4 may give enough dope for an environment angle.
5)
You will also get an opportunity to listen to frontline health workers-
12/26.03
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'
ir.em me go,;developing countries)
es health work mean in today's context (I call
who have guarded the life line for the poor in
■ ;t;n a volunteer with the PHM (PHM gets its life from volunteers from
vawrs v. ,:’ks of lite- from grass roots health workers, activists, analysts.
policy makers and others ). In the PHM. I am involved in three key
activities:
1) 1 work as the media facilitator
2. Co-ordinate wa ■.•.■TheMilIionSignatureCampaign.org (the 'flagship' campaign
of tile PHM at tliis moment).
3) .Mong with Dr. Rosalie Bertell, I facilitate the PHM working circle on
Wars. Conflicts, Militarization and disasters.
Otherwise I work on Humanitarian Issues with ActionAid's Asia regional
office . Bangkok. From Dec 24th . till the end of WSF you can reach me at my
India mobile: 098450 91319. Please feel free to call / e-mail.
Let me take this opportunity to invite you to the IHF and the PHM panels
(during WSF.
Last, but note the least, let me assure you that PHM activities and sources
have always given enough 'dope' for journalists- people, issues, concerns
and the small but remarkable innovative work done by some of the frontline
health workers associated with PHM. That has been our experience with the
media - both from developing countries as well as well known western media
wire and other.
Looking forward to seeing you in Mumbai.
Regards
For the People's Health Movement
Unni
Dr. Unnikrishnan PV
-----Original Message-----From: "Sarah Shannon" v'sarahs@hesperian.org>
To: "LTxNIKRISHNAN P.V. (Dr)" <unnikru@yahoo.com>; "PHM - Secretarial"
' secretariate? plimovement.org'
Co: "Jeff Conant" ieffff-hesperian.orgSent: Thursday. December 18, 2003 4:03 PM
Subject: .Magazine article
• Addendum to prior note: Sarita is from CSE. Sarita wrote us earlier to
explain that "CSE as you know is basically a advocacy based organisation
and we are more keen on the policies and governance of issues. In
12/26/03
People’s Health Movement
Global Secretariat: CHC, # 367, Jakkasandra 1st Main, 1st Block, Koramangala,
Bangalore - 560 034 India. Tel.: 91-80-5128 0009 / Telefax: 91-80-552 53 72
E-mail: secretariat@phmovement.org Website: http://www.phmovement.org
Networks
Asian Community Health
Action Network (ACHAN)
Consumers InternationalRegional Office for Asia
and the Pacific (CIROAP)
Dag Hammarskjold
Foundation (DHF)
Gonoshasthaya Kendra,
(GK)
Health Action
International (HAI) - Asia-
Pacific - HAIAP
International People's
Health Council (IPHC)
Third World Network
(TWN)
Women's Global Network
for Reproductive Riahts
Regions
Central
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Mexico
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China
East and Central Africa
Europe
India
Middle
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North America
Pacific,
Australia
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South America
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Southern Africa
West Africa
Past Coordinator
Qasem Chowdhury,
GK, Savar, Bangladesh
Present Coordinator
Ravi Narayan,
CHC, Bangalore, India
January 8th, 2004
PRESS CONFERENCE ON 13th January 2004
at Mumbai Press Club (3:00 to 4:00 pm)
Dear Madam / Sir
People’s Health Movement is organizing a press conference to brief the
media about the International Health Forum that will be held in Mumbai in
January second week.
Medical professionals, grassroots health workers and well known
academicians from Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe and Australia will
speak to the press on “the present day challenges in health care”.
Date: 13lh January 2004 (Tuesday)
Time: 3:00 to 4:00 pm
Venue: Press Club, Mumbai
We invite you to join us. Some of the speakers (tentative) who will address
the press are:
Dr. Jihad Mashal, Neuro Surgeon from Palestine- on the health and
social impacts of Military occupation on Palestinian people
Dr.
Arturo
Quizphe,
Pediatrician,
Ecuador - on
the impact of
globalization on health.
Mary Sandasi, Zimbawe. Africa’s challenges in ensuring health for all.
organizing committee member of the People's Health
Movement - on the International Health Forum.
Sarojini,
Hugo, Guatemala- Health Movement and Social Movements/ World Social
Forum.
The International Health Forum is expected to galvanize over 700
participants from nearly 45 countries. People from various walks of life are
expected to participate in this two-day event that will be held on 14th and
15th January, 2004 at YMCA, Mumbai.
On behalf of the People’s Health Movement
Dr. Ravi Narayan
Co-ordinator,
PHM Global Secretariat
Media enquiries:Dr.Unnikrishnan PV
+91 (0) 98450 91319
e-mail: unnikru(a).vahoo.com
PHM Resource Centre: Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Nayarhat, Dhaka - 1344, Bangladesh
Tel: 880-2-770 83 16, 770 83 35-6: Fax: 880-2-770 83 17; e-mail: gksavar@citechco. net
Secretariat Support Group: Website: Andrew Chetley, UK - chetley.a@healthlink.org.uk;
PHM Exchange: Claudio Schuftan, Vietnam- aviva@netnam.vn;
PHM Media: Unnikrishnan, India -unnikru@yahoo.com, Satya sivaraman, Thailand-satyasagar@yahoo.com
Projects / Finances: Andy Rutherford, UK - arutherford@oneworldaction.org
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Friday, March 05, 2004 6:02 PM
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Fw: PHA-Exchange> Fw: Iran EQ- ActionAid media coverage- Khaleej Times(Dubai) - 26
February 2004
Dear Unni,
Greetings from PHM Secretariat (Global)!
Hope the goof up (earlier draft of Mumbai Declaration) did not delay the
process too much. I saw the final version (2dnd March from BFC and sent
approval immediatley. I was glad that Prasanna managed to telephonically
link up with you as well.
Did you release the Declaration? Press statement linked to Women's Day? We
had no news, but since you are usually so prompt, it probably is on its way.
I have not released the Declaration to Steering Group - since I have been
expecting it to be released by you along with the press statement.
Hope the MDG meeting went well. Saw the interview with you on Khaleej Times
(To Bam and Back). As usual, punchy and relevant. Thanks for being such a
committed and consistent advocate on Disaster and Conflict. I wish more
issue circles convenors and PHM members would be as proactive as yo/. The
secretariat is greately supported.
All the best
Ravi Narayan
Coordinator, People's Health Movement Secretariat(global)
CHC-Bangalore
#367 "Srinivasa Nilaya"
Jakkasandra 1st Main, I Block Koramangala
Bangalore-560034
Tel: 00 91 (0) 80 51280009 (Direct) Fax: 00 91 (0) 80 25525372
Website: www.plimovement.org.
Join the "Health for all, NOW!" campaign in the 25th anniversaty year of the
Alma Ata
declaration visit wwwcTheMi1lionSignatureCampaign.org
3/8/04
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mohammad aii barzgar <m_barzgar@hotmail.com>
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Monday, March 01, 2004 8:22 AM
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PHA-Exchange> Fw: Iran EQ- ActionAid media coverage- Khaleej Times(Dubai) - 26 February
2004
Dear Claudio,
First of all 1 wish to thank you very much for reflekting the Tragedy of
earthquake of Iran and sympathic letters of PHM's friends to me quite often
in pha-exchange request.lt was really a matter of relief and global
solidarity and support.
Secondly I have recieved a media-coverage of ActionAid media activities
about the 3am earthquake,which seems to me interesting.! should mention that
the PHM Iran and it's allied agency "the Nursing Organization of Iran" had
done their best for the success of initiatve of Action Aid.I will be
grateful if it is relevant to be circulated through pha-exchange
request,please do so.Many thanks and kindest
regards.Dr.M.A.Barzgar, PHM, Iran.
>From: "UNNECRISHNAN P.V. (Dr)" <unnikru@yahoo.com>
>To: "mohammad ali barzgar" <m barzgar@hotmai 1 .com>
>Subject: Fw: Iran EQ- ActionAid media coverage- Khaleej Times (Dubai) - 26
>February 2004
>Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:47:13 +0530
>Dear Dr. Barzgar
>1 hope you find this interesting.
>Regards
>Unni
>Iran EQ- ActionAid media coverage- Khaleej Times (Dubai) - 26 February 2004
>http://www.khaleeitimes.com/CitvHorne.asD?
xfile=data/citytimes/2004/February/citytimes_Februaryl 18.xml§ion=citytimes&col=
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Khaleej Times Online » City Times
TO 3AM AND BACK
BY FARHA SAIT
26 February 2004
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>
Little is written about Bam these days. Or its grieving,
devastated
>residents. And how they are coping in the aftermath of nature's harsh blow
>that claimed 43,000 of their kith and kin.
>
It is just two months since tragedy struck, yet few reports are
>flowing out of there. Fewer making headlines. The last of the newsmen have
>packed up and left for crisper headlines leaving thousands of injured and
psychologically disturbed to battle with their fate. Even international aid
>workers are reportedly leaving the southeast Iranian city where over
thousands of buildings collapsed leaving 20,000 injured in the wee hours of
>December 26, 2003.
>
"However, the scene here is far from normal," Indian-born quake
Specialist, Dr P.V. UnniKrishnan told City Times in an exclusive interview
>just 48 hours after he left the disaster-struck city. Scheduled to return
>to
>Bam in a week's time, Dr Krishnan was enroute to India to visit his family.
>
"Rescue operations are successfully completed and notable number
>of
>aid workers and media people are leaving Bam each day. However, the real
>work of rehabilitating the victims has only just begun now," said the
Specialist who landed in Iran just hours after tragedy struck, and has been
>working there since as part of a three-man team deputed by British NGO,
>Action Aid.
>
As per Unicef reports, the quake has rendered over 60,000 people,
>mainly children, homeless. These survivors are still in a fragile state of
>mind and body and are in desperate need of aid, medical help and
>counseliing. They are devastated mentally and physically and the lack of
>proper food, clothing and absence of family, has created an immensely
>tragic
Situation. The worst of its kind in recent times.
>
"Instead of leaving them in such a situation, it is important that
Sid organisations and various countries step up their support for the
>victims of the Bam tragedy," said Dr Krishnan who is currently involved in
>conducting community based training programmes and implementing long-term
>rehab programme in association with the Iranian Nursing Association.
>
"The first months of any disaster usually constitute the emergency
Operations and in the case of Bam, the relief operations were excellent.
> Within no time the Iranian government, the Ministry of Health and the
>Iranian Red Cresent airlifted 15,000 survivors into safer pockets of the
>country thereby immediately assuring their safety."
>
"The operations that we saw in Bam perhaps far surpassed any other
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>rescue operation anywhere in the world. The Iranian Nursing Association has
>done a remarkable job. The manner in which the nurses worked tirelessly,
>regardiess of the deaths in their own families, is something that can never
>really be explained. All I can say is that angels are not confined to the
>heavens," said the doctor who had previously served his expertise in
>Gujarat
>and more recently in Turkey.
>
Two kinds of people demand immediate attention in Bam, says Dr
>Krishnan. Those with physical disabilities of some sort and those with
psychological problems. The most common physical problems noticed in
>survivors includes disabilities of the hip bone, spine, vertebrae and
>multiple fractures of the lower limb. However, while these can be treated
>gradually, it is really the psychological scars that will remain for
>decades
>to come, he says.
>
As per initial studies conducted by the World Health Organisation
>(WHO), it has been proved that post trauma stress disorders increase and
>suicides rates go up in the aftermath of such a disaster. The disability
>ioad increases. Health and sanitary issues take a backseat and diseases
>spread rapidly. Bam is no exception to this.
>
"Entire families and neighbourhoods were wiped out in the tragedy
>with no or just a sole survivor at times. The thing with Bam is that the
>people here used to live in extended families of up to 120 members living
>together in a cluster settlement. So whereas in other places families are
>scattered across a certain area, in Bam, they were closely grouped together
>resulting in being totally wiped out."
>
"Children specially are badly affected by this and still shiver at
>the recollection of the horror of seeing thousands of body parts scattered
>all around them. Their relatives and friends went missing overnight. Many
>not found for days. The memory of those moments makes them break out in a
>sweat. They wake up in the middle of the night screaming and shouting. Many
>of them do not even know how to react in such a situation and their state
>is
>very moving. In so many years of my practice, this is one experience that
>will stay with me for a long time," says Dr Krishnan.
>
"The children are the ones my heart really goes out to. Many of
>them
>have withdrawn into a shell and refuse to talk or eat. I can recollect the
>faces and expressions of so many such young ones, looking for their parents
>or realising they will never see them again. The entire situation in Bam
>has
>been a human tragedy of the worst kind."
>
"There are serious issues of rehabilitation that lie before us now
>and I strongly feel that the world should unite and focus its attention on
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Monday. March 15, 2004 5:45 PM
Re: [PHM_Steering_Group_02-03] New Campaign- launch strategy (DRAFT Press release) for
comments and endorsemnt and NOT for circulation
Dear Unni,
Greetings from PHM Secretariat (Global)!
Further to our telephonic conversation on 15th morning, there is some errors in the press release
(enclosed below) and the idea of putting the PHM secretariat number is also endorsed. Perhaps you
should put Prasanna, Communiation Officer, so that he gets specifically called if there are any queries
and he will know what to do or whom to refer to. He will be back on duty on 16th March after attending
the JSA - Delhi rally. Do meet Dr. Barzgar in Iran and get the main points discussed with you - across?
to him.
CORRECTIONS:
1. Line 9: Page 1 - 'sent' not 'send'
2. Line 13: Page 2 - 'blood' not 'boold'
3. Line 16: Page 2 - 'immediately not 'imemdiately'
4. Line 21: Page 2 - 'delivering' not 'delevering
Last Para
Line 11: Page 3 - ‘Will collate' not 'collates'
At Signatture Level
'Following' not 'follwing
By the time you return the WHA event (May 2004) will have clarity. Stay in touch.
All the best on your next Iran Mission.
Regards,
Ravi Narayan
Coordinator, People's Health Movement Secretariat(global)
CHC-Bangalore
#367 "Srinivasa Nilaya"
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intal - Wim De Ceukelaire <wim.deceukelaire@intal.be>
Bert De Beider <bert.de.belder@skynet.be>; Maria Hamlin Zuniga <iphc@cablenet.com.ni>;
Sarah Shannon <sarahs@hesperian.org>; mohammad all barzgar <m_barzgar@hotmail.com>;
PHMsecretariat <secretariat@phmovement.org>; pamzinkin <pamzinkin@gn.apc.org>;
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Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:15 PM
press release for march 16th draft- not for circulation.doc
New Campaign- launch strategy (DRAFT Press release) for comments and endorsemnt and NOT
for circulation
THE MAIL AND attachment are NOT (repeat not) for circulation:
Dear Wim and friends
Greetings from Bangkok!
Attached please find the final DRAFT version of the press release announcing the launch of
the Health Now !- NO to WAR NO to WTO" campaign- an outcome of the IHF, WSF and MR
2004. The copy of the draft is marked to representatives of all the organisations who appear
in the press release (apart from being as PHM in general).
Comments: if any of you have comments, oelase send it to me latest bvJSunday 12:00 noon
GMT. (Please mark a copy to Wim). The headline has been 'tested'. It will be better if we
sfickto it- needs to be spicy i I will incorporate the comments, and finalise it by Sunday 24:00
hrs GMT.
Dates: We should issue it on Tuesday, the 1 Sth. Date it as 1 Sth itself without any
embargoes.This will give ideas for those who are writing advance stories. If we issue it on
20th it will not be helpful. Even if it is issued as embargoed as 20th, it will be strategically not
that helpful. THERE will be so many PRESS RELEASES THAT WILL BE ISSUED AFTER
16TH I!
The strategy:
1) If we issue this press release on March 16th morning 10 am Philippines time, it will kick
-off the process and have a 'snow ball' effect.
2) Journalists will refer to this and they may come back to us again and
again throughout the week.
3) When people hold press conferences on 1 Sth or 20th, they can use the same press
release. They can re-issue it on a joint letter head (of the campaign alliance and their
organisation's letterhead) and date it as 19th/ 20th- the day they hold it.
Local groups can add a paragraph highlighting more of local activities/ country level
activities.
4) In countries where PHM is not holding press conferences, they may issue just a media
release or join hands with other groups.
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'. We need to add numbers of'spokespersons' whom journalists can call in individual
^countries. (Copy of this mail is marked to PHM steering group, so that some of them can
provide their contact numbers for media queries). Please have a look at www.health-now.org
PLEASE DO NOT CIRCULATE THE DRAFT- The FINAL VERSION WILL BE Send TO
YOU ON 15TH MIDNIGHT.
I am still in Bangkok as my Iranian visa has not come through.
Looking forward to hearing from you
In solidarity
Unni - Ph (mob): +91 98450 91319
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Bangalore, BrasseHs, Baghdad, Maraagma, Lomdoa, MamiBa asd New York,
'Zssmed by the Campaign Alliance co-ordiEatBBg VealA NOW- NO War, NO WHO, fight
fir people ’$ Health! canmpaogm).
STOP WAI& I STOP WTO £
etealtehi now 2 campaign supports global anti-wap mapcpl
“WAR ANR WTO ; TWO THORNS FROM TRE SAME BUS>\
A new global campaign, that is being launched on March 18th, calls for throwing out the
occupying forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and dismantling of the World Trade
Organisation.
“Wars and WTO are the greatest threat to health and peace” said a spokesperson. “Under
the guise of a ‘war on terror’, the United States is trying to enforce global hegemony at a
terrifying cost to people’s health” she said.
Wars, military interventions, occupation and militarization devastate public health and
also waste precious resources-at the expense of health and other basic services.
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I he camapigners have sen^ out an appeal to people all over the world to join public
demonstrations and other activities of protest and resistence scheduled for March 20th.
The alliance spearheading the campaign have leading groups, networks, people based
movements and activist groups like the People's Health Movement, the International
People's Health Council, International League of People's Struggle-Ad Hoc Health
Commission; INTAL /Medical Aid for the Third World, Artsen voor Vrede (Belgium),
the Council for Health and Development (the Philippines), the Hesperian Foundation
(USA), the Health Work Committees (Palestine) and the Union of Palestinian Medical
Relief Committees (Palestine).
Timed year after the invasion and military occupation began in Iraq, the campaigners
For media SEqjmareBs, pliease coEtaet: media@health-now.org ®ir cafllh
India:
Philippines:
Nicaragua
Belgium:
USA:
UK:
Iraq:
Australia
ocint out that situation has deteriorated in Iraq and has reached an explosive
situation. “Lives of thousands of innocent children and women are at risk” said a
campaign communciation. Consider the facts:
o An estimated 55,000 people have already died in Iraq because of the unjust,
illegal and illegitimate war that started one year ago.
o infant Mortality in Iraq has reached 108 per 1000 deaths by March 2005 .(In
1989 it was 40)
o The cost of this war is already more than 100 billion US dollars. (UN
estimates that 11 billion US dollars are necessary to provide water and sanitation
for the people in developing countries, annually).
“Occupying forces are responsible for this humanitarian crisis” said a spokesperson. “Iraq
is just not an isolated case. Observations from Afghanistan, Palestine and other places
under foreign Military occupation paint pictures of bbo(d-shed” she added.
“25 years of war in Afghanistan (another country currently under US occupation) has
devastated the health and lives of people. Out of every 1000 children bom in
Afghanistan, 155 die imemdiatelv” said a spokesperson for the Campaign Alliance. “This
is a scar on humanity”she said.
The campaigners are also calling the military atrocities that have attained an epidemic
proportion in Occupied Territories of Palestine where everyday sufferings of ordinary
people are now further amplified by the ‘Apartheid Wall’.
“Pregnant women delievering babies at military check points; destruction of hospitals and
clinics; attack on civilians and medical personnels and funerals punctuate the every day
life here” said a Spokesperson from Palestine. “What we are witnessing is utter disrespect
and disregard for human lives and blatant violation of International Humanitarian Laws.
Over 120 Israeli military check points in West Bank and Gaza strip are suffocating over 3
million Palestinians” he said.
This campaign was first presented and promoted in Mumbai, at the International Forum
for the Defense of People's Health, at the World Social Forum and at the Mumbai
Resistance 2004, in January 2004. These summits called for action for peace and
appealed to galvanise people all over the world.
The camapign has been gaining strength wordwide through solidarity and building
alliances, primarily through a web site set up exclusively for this purpose:
www.health-now.org
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“WTO is no more about trade, it is the World ‘Terror’ Organisation - along with wars,
they are responsible for the deaths of millions of people worldwide, especially the poor”
said a spokesperson. Consider the facts:
o Millions of poor and landless fanners have lost their livelihoods since the World
Trade Organization has integrated agriculture in the global trading system.
Six million people in poor countries urgently need antiretroviral treatment yet less
than 5% have access to these drugs. Corporate globalization spreads ill health.
o The health gap between the rich and the poor is growing wider.
I he campaign will be officially launched in several paices like Baghdad, Brussels,
Bangalore, Manila, New York, London and Occupied territories of Palestine.
The campaign, that will be launhded in March 3rd week, has several activities. Setting up
an ‘HealiSa & Occupation Watch! will be one of the outcomes. Health & Occupation
Watch collates reports, data and field notes on the health impact of war and occupation in
Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and elsewhere. Stories from the frontline of the struggle for
health: www.occupationwatch.health-now.org
Signed by the represemtatives of time ffoMwimg rnmass tmaoveimiemts, imetwoirEo,
orgamsiatioims
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International People's Health Council
International League of People's Struggle-Ad Hoc Health Commission
INTAL 1/Medical Aid for the Third World
Artsen voor Vrede (Belgium)
Council for Health and Development (the Philippines)
Hesperian Foundation (USA)
Health Work Committees (Palestine)
Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (Palestine).
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<ekbal@vsnl.com>; <phmsec@touchtelindia.net>; N. B. Sarojini <samasaro@vsnl.com>;
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Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:16 AM
March 12-media
Dear Abhay and friends
Greetings from Bangkok I
It is very good to note that JSA preparations are in full swing. I regret to inform you that I will not be able to
come. I am in transit and returning to Iran for the third mission (Bam earthquake response).
I have informed some of the friends in the media (especially wire agencies) about the JSA programme on
march 12. You may consider the following.
1) Issuing a press release on March 11th (as a curtain raiser)- Focus on what is going to happen
2) Another press release on March 12th morning- so that the journalists who come for a few minutes and
those who are not able to make it to the event will have something to use - Focus on what is happening
3)
On March 13th morning- a final round up- What happens from then onwards?
If you have a draft and if you would like rne to give a 'spin' please send it to me. I promise to return it in
couple of hours.
In case you have already prepared a press release, please forward it to me so that I can flash it some useful
contacts. There is lot of interest amongst wire agencies (in India and abroad) and we should use them.
I will be here (in Bangkok) for two more days and my next destination is Iran- unfortunately, my phone doesn't
work there and have very limited access to the Internet. One reason why I was out of circulation for the past
several weeks.
best wishes for the meet
In solidarity
Unni
---- Original Message----From: cehatpun
To: Gouri Pada Dutta ; pha ; veena shatruqna ; Jean Dreze ; bmathew@uls.ac,in ;
kreddy@satyam.net.in ; Prof: Joga Rao
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:13 PM
Subject: [pha-ncc] Fw: JSA pre-election event - meeting with representatives of political parties
---- Original Message-----From: cehatpun
To: Chandra Pandav
Sent Tuesday, March 09, 2004 6:13 PM
Subject: JSA pre-election event - meeting with representatives of political parties
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Dear Friend.
Greetings!
You would be aware of the ‘Right to Health Care’ campaign launched by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan
I io establish Health care as a fundamental right. Till date, various programmes have been organised by
JSA as part of tins campaign. At this juncture, it is felt that we should take the advantage of the
forthcoming elections to persuade the political parties to include this demand of JSA in their
manifesto.
Thus, a public event, which would be ‘Parties face the people’ type of programme, has been
organised by JSA on 12th of March in New Delhi. Representatives of various political parties have
been contacted for this programme and some of the leading political parties have agreed to send their
representatives. In the programme, the representatives would be apprised of the need to establish
Health Rights, and to ensure a system that can provide Health care for all. They would be asked to
include as a pledge in their- manifestos, the issue of ‘Making the Right to Health Care a Fundamental
Riglit'.
hr the afternoon session of this daylong programme, there would be a symbolic ‘March for
health’ with a theme like ‘Save Public Health - Ensure People’s Riglit to Health Care!’
We would like to request you to grace this programme with your presence. Your experience and
expertise would be a valuable contribution for this campaign.
Looking forward to a positive response,
With best regards,
. i-
Sincerely yours,
Dr. Abhay Shukla
Cehat
JSA National Secretariat
Date of the program: 12 March 2004
Time: Morning session- 9.30 to 1.30 - Dialogue with representatives of political parties
Afternoon session- 2.30 to 4.00 - rally
Venue of the Program: Vitthalbhai Patel House
Rafi Marg
New Delhi
For further details, please contact:
Sarojini
Member, National Secretariat
Sama, 1st Floor
J-59, Saket
New Delhi- 17
Ph: 011-26968972 / 26850074
e-mail: samasaroffivsnl.com
Vandana Prasad
Member, National Secretariat
L- 91. Sector 25
Noida, UP, 201301
3/10/04
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Phone: 0120-2536578
e-mail: chaukhat@yahoo.com
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Wednesday. April 21, 2004 4:13 PM
Re: URGENT- please respond by 5 pm on Wednesday:::.::::::::::::::::lndian troops for Iraq-
Dear Unni,
Greetings from PHM Secretariat: Global' !
I and Prasanna and others in out team endorse your idea about the press release, but we leave it to
Ekbal, Amit and others ro make the final decision since ]SA should release it to make a local impact.
Best wishes
Ravi Narayan
Coordinator. People's Health Movement Secretariat(global)
CHC-Bangalore
#367 "Srinivasa Nilaya"
Jakkasandra 1st .Main, I Block Koramangala
Bangalore-560034
Tel: 00 91 (0) 80 51280009 (Direct) Fax: 00 91 (0) 80 25525372
Website: wm. .phmoveir.ent.org
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:29 PM
press release phm - indan troops- take 1.doc
URGENT- please respond by 5 pm on Wednesday::::::::::::::::::::lndian troops for Iraq-
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There are speculations that the Indian government may send troops to Iraq after the
elections. US is pulling strings to do damage control after the wise exit-decision by the new
Socialist Spanish PM.
I got coupie of caiis from the media. Attached please find a draft press release. JSA may
consider issuing it ASAP, preferably on Wednesday. I am willing to consolidate the
responses from ail of you and issue it if you think this is the best way. Al! suggestions till 5
pm on Wednesday will be honoured. (I am leaving India on most probably on Thursday and
wili NOT be able to handle this after that).
Suggestions on other ways of taking this forward are most welcome.
Please use track changes mode if you edit on the attached word file.
I was just working on a press relapse that will be released in Australia on the coming Sunday.
It demands the withdrawal of Australian troops from Iraq, sighting the Depleted Uranium
weapons issue, it may click there as the opposition Labour leader has just said the he will
bring troops back by Christmas.
Regards
Unni +91 93450 91319
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4 20'04
DO NOT (repeat do NOT) release- this is a draft.
Indian troops for Iraq ? IT IS MORE THAN POLITICS:
“HEALTH OF INDIAN SOLDIERS WILL BE IN GRAVE
DANGER” HEALTH MOVEMENT WARNS.
‘Depleted Uranium Weapons are deadly’. ‘Do NOT send Indian troops to Iraq’
they demand.
New Delhi 21st April 2004: “Health of Indian Soldiers will be in grave danger” warns
Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, the Indian counterpart of the People’s Health Movement. “Stop
the troops” they demand.
The disastrous impact of Depleted Uranium weapons, used heavily in Iraq, is one of the
key reasons for this demand. Media reports indicated speculations that the Indian
government may consider sending troops after the elections.
“Depleted Uranium weapons lead to serious health consequences and often lead to
irreversible damages. The US soldiers who participated in the first Gulf War are living
nightmares of Gulf War syndrome. We don’t want our brothers and sisters to go through
this” said Prof. B Ekbal, Convener of the People’s Flealth Movement.
US led forces used Depleted Uranium weapons during the Gulf War in 1990s and later
during the bombings throughout the 1990s. This led to very high incidence of cancer
amongst many other killer diseases as many research studies point out.
Humanitarian workers associated with the People’s Health Movement have also profiled
children with high incidence of Leukemia and other DU weapon impacts from their field
visits to Iraq.
Authentic media reports during the war on Iraq last year confirmed the use of DU
weapons during the invasion. One such report in The Christian Science Monitor on May
15, 2003 quoted a U.S. Central Command spokesman confirming their use.
Another report on Aug. 4, 2003 in the Seattle Post Intelligencer, says that Pentagon and
UN estimates show that U.S. and British forces used between 1,100 and 2,200 tons of
uranium shells during attacks on Iraq in March and April.
“It has been estimated that one millionth of a gram accumulating in a person’s body
would be fatal” says Dr. Rosalie Bertell, an international expert on DU weapons and
radiation science. Dr. Bertell is also a well known academician who led the International
Medical Commission on Chernobyl and the International Medical Commission on
Bhopal.
Subjected to Depleted Uranium weapons, civilians and soldiers go through a long and
unending painful experience.
DU weapons have come under fire from leading military experts itself. Admiral Vishnu
Bhagwat, Former Indian Naval Chief in a paper presented in February 2004 quotes
leading experts on the subject: “The long term effects
after the early neurological
symptoms are cancer, and related radiation illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome,
joint and muscle pain, neurological and/or nerve damage, mood disturbances, auto
immune deficiciencies, lung and kidney damage, vision problems, skin rupture, increase
in miscarriages, maternal mortality and genetic birth defects/deformation...”.
“We are not equipped to deal with the consequences of depleted uranium weapons on
Indian Soldiers" said a PFIM spokesperson.
Public interest groups in India have earlier opposed Indian government’s proposal to send
Indian soldiers to Iraq sighting the long term killer health consequences of DU weapons.
The Indian government subsequently withdrew the proposal due to public pressure.
“War and ongoing occupation have amplified the miseries of ordinary Iraqis” notes a
recent communique from the People’s Health Movement. Infant Mortality in Iraq has
reached 108 per 1000 live births by March 2005. In 1989 it was 40.
“India should learn lessons from the Spanish government on this. They are pulling out
their troops” said a PHM spokesperson. People’s Health Movement (borne out of the
historic People’s Health Assembly in Bangladesh in 2000) also welcomed the decision of
the newly elected Spanish Prime Minister who have just authorized the with drawl of
Spanish troops from Iraq.
Spain’s Socialist Party won a popular majority which political analysts attribute as a
reflection of Spanish people’s rejection of having a role in the ongoing occupation of
Iraq.
Dr. B Ekbal
Jan Swasthya Abhiyan
Dr. Amit Sen Gupta
People’s Health Movement
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Re: URGENT-please respond by 5 pm on Wednesday: :::
: ■ indian troops for Iraq-
SUB: Indian troops for Iraq ?JSA statement
Dear Friends
Greetings !
With reference to the maii i sent yesterday, requesting you aii to make a decision on the
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Ravi Narayan who stateci that the decision should by you ail as it is an India specific subject,
Un fortunately, I am leaving fro Iran for a mission any moment from now onwards.
if there is interest, I hope one of you will take this forward.
Regards and in solidarity
Unni
V
4 21 04
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Friday, April 23, 2004 8:14 AM
[pha-ncc] US-led TROOPS IN IRAQ ARE TARGETINGHOSPITALS, AMBULANCES AND
CIVILIANS - press release
(Please distribute widely, sorry for cross posting)
PRESS RELEASE
US-led TROOPS IN IRAQ ARE TARGETING HOSPITALS,
AMBULANCES AND CIVILIANS
“STOP the war crimes. Respect the Geneva conventions and end the occupation immediately,”
says an international campaign alliance.
April 21th: Released simultaneously from Baghdad, Manila, Bangalore, Managua, Brussels,
Netv York, San Francisco, Melbourne.
According to an international campaign group, there is strong evidence that the US-led occupation
forces are guilty of war crimes in Iraq.
In a press statement issued today, ‘Health NOW! No war, No WTO- Fight for people’s health an
international campaign alliance - said that the US led occupation forces have “shown disrespect for
civilians, health systems, health workers and medical infrastructure, resulting in the death of hundreds
of civilians and extreme misery for thousands of people in Fallujah and many more in the rest of
Iraq.”
The alliance spearheading the campaign includes leading medical professionals, development and
peace groups and networks, people-based mass movements and activists from over 100 countries.
Based on first hand field testimonies from health workers and peace activists in Iraq and eye-witness
accounts from Fallujah, the campaigners leveled their charges:
1) US- led troops have targeted unarmed civilians and used cluster bombs in populated areas of
the city.
2) US-led troops have severely hampered relief work to the wounded.
3) US-led troops have blocked access to Fallujah’s hospital thus forcing doctors and health
personnel to set up field hospitals in private homes.
4) US-led forces deliberately targeted ambulances that went about the city to collect the injured.
“These constitute war crimes as the US troops are required by the Geneva Conventions to
discriminate combatants from non-combatants,” said Dr. Geert Van Moorter, a Belgian emergency
doctor of intal/Medical Aid for the Third World who was in Iraq until early April. “These acts are
repulsive and immoral as they cause unnecessary civilian casualties,” he added.
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The campaigners also pointed out that no less than the Iraqi health minister, during a less-reported
press conference held on April 17th, confirmed that the US-led forces have intentionally shot at
ambulances.
The campaigners have posted the details, facts and proof for these charges along with corroborated
eyewitness accounts at the campaign website http://www.health-now.org.
“Indiscriminate killing of civilians and the refusal to provide people with security, basic services and
decent medical infrastructure have characterized the ‘freedom’ that the occupying forces have
brought to the country” said Eman Ahmed Khammas, Director of International Occupation Watch
Center, one of the participating groups in the campaign, from Occupied Baghdad.
Nicaraguan health activist Maria Hamlin Zuniga said: “The latest atrocities in Iraq confirm our stand
that the immediate withdrawal of the occupying forces is a prerequisite for any improvement in the
country’s health situation.”
“We urge the peoples of the world to show their unwavering solidarity with the Iraqi people and to
demand an immediate end to the US-led occupation,” Philippine Dr. Deien de la Paz added.
The alliance spearheading the campaign includes leading groups, networks, people-based movements
and activist groups like the People's Health Movement, the International People's Health Council,
International League of People's Struggle-Study Commission on Health, Women’s Global Network
for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR), Pesticide Action Network (PAN-AP), intal /Medical Aid for the
Third World (Belgium), the Council for Health and Development (the Philippines), the Hesperian
Foundation (USA), the Union of Health Work Committees (Palestine), Union of Palestinian Medical
Relief Committees (Palestine), International Action Center (USA) and International Occupation
Watch Center (Iraq).
Stop the occupation of Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan!
WTO out of health!
Health care, not warfare!
http://www.health-now.org
For media enquiries, please contact: media@healtJtiipiv.org or call:
Philippines: +63-917-811 3298
Belgium: +32-495-85 57 01
: India: +91-80-5128 0009
: USA: +1-510 684 1099
No war, no WTO; Fight for people's health. Health NOW! http://www.health-now.org
Wim's blog: http://pipQlpower.blogspot.com
PHA-Exchange is hosted on Kabissa - Space for change in Africa
4/23/04
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UNNiKRISHNAN P.V. (Dr)" <unnikru@yanoo.com>
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resistance in Falluja have washed their hands of Paul Bremer. Days of negotiations went up in smoke last week as the
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Sunday, May 30, 2004 12:41 PM
tpha-ncc] Fw: PI-iM and WGNRR media coverage- Women Cai! For Action
?EM and WGNRR media coverage- Women Call For Action
W Z .W.WA Ca.Il For ActionbySakuntalaNarasimhan
Z eccan Herald . India (May 28th 2C04)
"FeeCh sector reforms : Hazardous to women’s health” says the front page title, on a “Cali for
Action” document released by a women’s global network, to mark International Day of Action for
Women’s Health, observed annually on May 28.
How can ‘reforms’ be hazardous to the health of half the population? Read on, and the details put out
by the network explains how — in the name of globalisation policies based on neoliberal theories
imposed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), most developing countries
have seen a worsening of women’s healthcare facilities worldwide. Privatisation of healthcare has
meant that medical services that used to be provided free by the government, now have to be paid
for,which in turn means that those who cannot afford private treatment and medicines are worse off.
7/omen in particular, who are known worldwide to have less access to healthcare compared to men,
see the quality of their lives sliding. Also, when services get privatised, women end up having to take
on a greater burden of nursing care for the family’s sick, infirm or handicapped members, in some
African countries, maternal mortality rates have in fact risen, in the wake of “economic reforms”.
Even in the developed countries, 'women are protesting against increasing privatisation. (The Bush
administration, for instance, is currently under furious fire from feminist groups, for “yanking out”
and deleting data on women from websites meant to give information to the public.Medical facilities
pertaining to women’s reproductive rights are also being curtailed.The US has not even cared to ratify
the international convention on elimination of discrimination against women ,CEDAW)
Over half a million women die worldwide, annually, due to complications related to pregnancy or
childbirth. Twentyfive years after the nations of the world accepted the Alma Ata declaration on
“Health for Ail by 2000”, access to basic healthcare is still a long way off. (Article V of the Alma Ata
Declaration says “governments have a responsibility for the provision of adequate health and social
measures”) Ten years after the landmark international population conference at Cairo adopted a plan
that recognised women’s right to reproductive health, we still see reports of the kind that hit the
headlines four months ago, revealing that 790 healthy women in Bengal state were “illegally
administered the antibiotic erythromycin to test whether it would work as a contraceptive”.
Erythromycin is normally taken orally to treat respiratory tract infections, yet the women were
administered the drug as a trans-cervical contraceptive.
The latest newsletter of the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) points out
that the two doctors involved in the erythromycin-as-contraceptive trials were “repeat offenders” and
had been involved in the illegal trials with the drug quinacrine used on women for chemical
sterilisation. (Quinacrine was banned in India following a Supreme Court directive.)
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This year’s Cali for Action from WGNRR for May 2§tn comes in the middle of a three-year initiative
teat this coalition of women’s groups from around the world has undertaken in collaboration with
the international People’s Health Movement (PHM) for demanding better access to healthcare for
women.
The Call for Action lists initiatives that local communities and activists can take up, to promote
equity in women’s access to health services. “Demand that governments stop the promotion of unsafe
contraceptives and sterilisation methods,” the document suggests. “Urge the government .through
your elected representatives and legislators, to increase the budgetary allocation for basic health
services” is another suggestion. Primary health centres in thousands of Indian villages remain useless,
with no medicines or doctors or even paramedical staff, while hundreds of crores of rupees get
allocated for fancy super-speciality hospitals or IT parks that cater only to the elite, urban minority
population. (In Hombegowda Nagar slum in south Bangalore, for example, the residents’ public
toilet was demolished, and treatment for the poor at the nearby government hospital turned from a
free to a payable service, while a spanking private hospital has quickly come up, just next door to the
Other suggestions for concerned citizens include signing up for campaings as supporters, demanding
more gender-sensitive health policies, and building civil society alliances with youth groups,
journalists, and parliamentarians, to press for the implementation of the promises made under the
Alma Ata declaration on ‘Health for All”.
In the time it took you to read this, six women would have died of pregnancy related causes, women
whose lives could have been saved if women’s health enjoyed better priority in the minds of the
policy-makers. Forty four per cent of deliveries in India still take place without a trained midwife in
attendance, 80 percent of pregnant women in India suffer from anemia (the highest percentage in the
world) and malnutrition and botched abortions by quacks continue to kill thousands of female. As
the People’s Health Movement points out, social justice rather than commercial profits, should be the
criterion, but globalisation emphasises the latter, at the cost of equity and fairness.Pharmaceutical
companies, driven by profit motives, invest millions in investing costly cures for rare maladies rather
than making affordable medication available for more pervasive, preventable diseases. Signatories to
this year’s Call for Action include women’s groups from USA, India, UK, Netherlands, Uganda, the
Philippines, and Cameroon, while activists from countries like Australia, Switzerland and Hungary
have pitched in with reports on women’s health issues that need attention in their respective regions.
(More information can be found at
www.wgnrr.org (Netherlands)
www.wahc@wgnrr.nl
www.phmovement.org
www.awid.org
www.arrow.org.my
(Malaysia)
Forwarded by:
Dr.Unnikrishnan PV
Fellow: Humanitarian Action
ActionAid - Asia Regional Office, Bangkok, THAILAND
Tel: +66 2 651 9066-9 ; Fax: +66 2 651 9070
E-mail: unni@actionaidasia.org (office) / unnikru@yahoo.com (personal)
Yahoo messenger: unnikru@yahoo.com / MSN Messenger: unnikru@hotmail.com
Website: www.actionaid.org
5/28/04
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;PH.V_Steering_Group_02-03] PRESS RELEASE: "TRY THE US AND ISRAELI ARMIES FOR
WAR CRIMES" says the People's Health Movement. (People's Health Movement)
msdia saqsniries: During WHA: Geneva +41 78 876 5437 or +33 660 839 448 :
iP©@phss HeaSth Movement
66TRY THE US AND ISRAELI ARMIES FOR
WAR CRIMES" says the People’s Health
Movememto
“They sure the biggest obstrractiom for [peace anndl health99..
Genieva, 2®th 1!1e May
Echoing the growing public opposition against
the ongoing and illegal occupation and inhumane treatment of the prisoners
of war in Iraq and the continuing attacks in Occupied Territories of
? riestins, the People’s Health Movement called on the International
Community and the World Health Organisation to take necessary steps to
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"The occupying forces have turned Iraq into a concentration camp” said
Unnikrishnan of the People’s Health Movement. He was referring to the
inhumane torture techniques that the occupying forces have been using on
Iraqi prisoners of war. "The inhumane treatment and torture is not limited
K-j: 7::z^ prison alone, the whole country has been turned into a prison.
It is happening in the streets. This assault on humanity is a blatant violation
of International Humanitarian Laws and Geneva conventions" he said.
US led occupying forces have been shooting at ambulances, occupying hospitals, and preventing
people from medical care.
“This utter disregard for human lives and disrespect for international humanitarian laws is the most
5/31/04
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diff.-.mt block in achieving health and peace in Iraq and Palestine” said Andreas Wulf of the People’s
Heaith Movement.
•zcj. doctors have been giving a blow by blow account of the atrocities of the occupying forces that
has been systematically targeting hospitals, ambulances and often civilians.
The Special Rapporteur on the right to health of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights, Paul Hunt, has called for an independent and impartial enquiry into the reports on attacks on
hosuitais and ambulances and harassment of the civilian people in Fallujah.
While the condemnation is growing worldwide on the inhumane and degrading treatment of the
Prisoners and ordinary Iraqis in the hands of the US led occupying forces, the health system in Iraq is
struggling to cope with the ever increasing work load. “International community made lots of
commitments at Madrid. But this is yet to become a reality” said the Health Minister of Iraq during
the World Health Assembly.
“Between the 23th of September 2000 and the 22nd of October 2003, 82 Palestinians died due to
Israeli prevention of medical treatment (soldiers prevented them from travelling to health services, or
health staff from reaching them) - 27 were children and 17 were newborns” Jihad Mashal of the
Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees (UPMRC). “In the same period there were 52 cases
of women giving birth at checkpoints” he added.
Jihad Mashal, who was expected in Geneva for the World Health Assembly, is not able to participate
as the UPMRC clinic in the A! Yasemina neighbourhood (in the Old City of Nablus) was badly
damaged in the helicopter shellings by the Israeli military recently. Recent weeks have seen a
manifold increase in targeted attacks on hospitals, ambulances apart from the detention and stopping
the free movement of medical personnel for health care work.
In the first two weeks of May 2004, demolition of residential buildings in Gaza has left 2,197
people homeless.
Destruction of property as a general security measure is prohibited under the International
Humanitarian Law (Geneva convention Article 53, Fourth Geneva convention).
2.
On 18x May (when the World Health Assembly was underway in Geneva), ongoing Israeli
raids in Rafah resulted in the death of another 19 Palestinians, including two children (of 13
and 16 years). They were shot in the head.
Indiscriminate attacks and attacks on children and civilians are an assault on the collective
conscience of the humanity.
According to UPMRC, between the 28th of September 2000 and the 5th May 2004, the
Israeli occupation forces killed a total of 3020 Palestinians. Of this, 12.4% were children
under the age of 15 years; and 60.1% were killed with live ammunition. 21.4% were injured
in the head and neck. During the same period about 47,000 Palestinians were injured. Of this,
about 2,500 will be permanently disabled, 500 of whom are children.
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'Health-r.ow! No to war no to WTO !' (www.health-now.org) - the flagship campaign of the
People’s Health Movement and its collaborating networks and agencies-have been
highlighting the worsening plight of the civilians and health systems in Iraq and Palestine. The
campaign is aimed to generate public opinion and put pressure on authorities to end the war,
militarization and occupation as well as to ensure the respect of Geneva conventions by the
occupying forces.
People’s Health Movement called for trying the US and Israeli armed forces for the war crimes
and the atrocities they are committing in Iraq and Occupied Territories of Palestine.
Ravi Narayan
PHM- Secretariat coordinator
Maria Hamlin Zuniga
PHM- Latin America
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E-mail: secretariat@phmovement.org Website: http://www.phmovement.org
Networks
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(C’ROAP); Dag Hammarskjold Foundation (DHF); Gonoshasthaya Kendra, (GK); Health Action international (HAI) - AsiaPacific - HAIAP; International People’s Health Council (IPHC); Third World Network (TWN); Women’s Global Network for
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ANNEX to fig. 1. (Flowchart)
Essential steps and inputs required for inter-sectoral collaboration and community
participation in vector-borne disease control programmes.
Introduction
The shift in emphasis from malaria control by specialized organisations to malaria control following the PHC
approach with community involvement and integrated in the health services sytem has resulted in a welcome
addition of new vector control tools and strategies suitable for "community participation", such as impregnated
mosquito nets.. However, (malaria) disease vector control requires specialists with a background in applied
epidemiology, operational research and programme design and management special expertise.
The design of locally appropriate interventions should start with a situation analysis, including the collection of
sufficiently detailed data on the epidemiology, vector biology and behaviour, and human risk behaviour.
Without expert input it is likely that precious resources will be wasted.
An essential part of achieving community participation is the creation, where possible, of alliances (inter and
intra-scctoral collaboration) between MOH malaria and vector control specialists and community based
"partners in health”, such as NGOs. churches, companies, plantations, schools, etc. The "partners" become
local vector control implementing agencies, involved in local planning and management. The malaria specialist
and the public health system provide technical and other essential support, including official endorsement.
WHO's malaria and vector-borne disease programmes should provide long-term advisers, and other technical
support to develop and maintain specialist capacity within endemic countries.
Step 1. Awareness of problem
The health services or the media report the problem to the (local) Government. Several steps should already
have been taken by the (district) public health services: confirmation of the problem and rapid response
measures if necessary. Government (health) authorities need to be involved when special emergency measures
are required or when a long-term progamme needs to be established. Because the problem may be due to the
failure of an already ongoing programme the (health) authorities may want to have an independent evaluation of
the situation. It may be decided to establish temporarily a taskforce under the MOH which will be responsible
for reviewing the situation, and recruiting and commissioning experts to conduct a situation analysis and prepare
a report with recommendations for action to be taken. The health services should have their own experts in the
(malaria) programme. However, ideally an experts group is formed from experts in universities, NGOs as well
as from the control programme. The experts group may be supported technically and otherwise by a technical
agency such as WHO.
Step 2. Situation analysis
The experts should cover different areas of expertise. Sufficiently detailed data need to be collected on the
epidemiology, vector biology and behaviour, and human risk behaviour. Because routinely collected
surveillance ata are often inadequate additional surveys are probably required. Case investigations are needed to
verify the probable place of transmission. Interviews and direct observations should produce data on the exact
site and time of transmission and on the risk factors which play a role. Tire vector species, its biting and resting
behaviour, and its breeding sites need to be identified. Available literature should be reviewed and contacts with
other investigators established.
Step 3. Presentation and discussion of report and recommendations
A draft report of all observations with literature review is prepared and a control strategy is proposed to address
the problem in the most cost-effective and locally appropriate way possible.
The report is first discussed with the taskforce and government officials. A decision is taken about the course of
action to follow. A final report with preliminary plan of action is then prepared for presentation to the health
services, the "partners" Cocal and external) and the community (for ethical reasons they should always be given
feedback), including the media.
Step 4. Operational research to develop or adapt a control strategy
Operational research is needed in many situations to adapt existing strategies to the local situation, to develop
improved control tools, or to evaluate the cost-efficacy of certain methods under local conditions. The end
result should be a proposal for a control strategy which is cost-effective and makes optimal use of locally
available resources. The MOH taskforce assigns local experts and assures the availability of the necessary
resources. The experts may include experts who participated in the situation analysis but usually specific
expertise is required for the trials. The experts may be assisted by external experts from WHO or elsewhere. In
some cases WHO and aid organizations may provide long-term expertise from outside.
Step 5. Preparation of Integrated Plan of Action
The experts propose not only a strategy but also an institutional policy (who will be involved). Both should be
endorsed by the MOH taskforce. In most cases the MOH disease control programme, the local "partners" and'
the community will have to be involved in the preparation of a detailed integrated plan of action that gives tasks
and responsibilities to all parties involved. The POA should give overall objectives and specific objectives A
detailed activity programme with identification of resources and timeframe is prepared for each specific
objective.
Step 6. Implementation of a vector-borne disease control programme
Implementation of the POA ideally requires a minimum of input from (scarce) experts and generally
understaffed and under funded public programmes. A local, community-based "partner" or programme
implementation agency (PI A) may provide many of the required inputs. Important is that the Government
(MOH) is fully behind the programme and provides official endorsement. The experts may provide essential
assistance in the micro planning, advice on selection of equipment and supplies, the contents of IEC and training
material, interpretation of monitoring data, limited staff training, advice for programme adjustments. If wellplanned, the need for expert input, although essential, can be kept to a minimum. The experts may be supported
with the above activities by external, long-term, technical advisers. The (specialized) health services may assist
with certain activities, such as microscopic diagnosis, susceptibility testing, vector species identification,
training of spray men, etc. External donor assistance can through the government programme also be used to
support integrated programmes, including NGO partners.
6a. management, monitoring and training
Ideally, a local "partner" organization (or PIA) takes care of local management issues. This should
include routine monitoring and evaluation of the programme. Experts should assist with the design of
the system and the interpretation of the data. Training of "partner" (PIA) personnel or community
members in specific activities can be provided incidentally by experts and specialists from the
specialized government programme.
6b.financing, equipment and supplies
Depending on the recommended strategy a local "partner" (PIA) may be able to incorporate the
programme in already ongoing activities at no additional cost with available equipment and supplies.
However, where additional equipment and/or supplies are needed, for example insecticide, the disease
control programme manager could provide this.
6c. Information, Education, Communication and promotion for community action
EEC is the task of the government but local community-based "partners" are usually best-placed to
create community awareness. A well designed and targeted promotional campaign is sometimes
required to turn community awareness and knowledge into action. This usually requires special
expertise and may have to be supported by the MOH and external partners organizations.
IMS.’.. ■■
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[pha-ncc] 'Access for All - to Everything, Everywhere', Demands People's Charter on
HiV/AIDS
URGENT— AIDS conference Bangkok - Press Release 13th July 2004 (People's
Health Movement)
an UmsIc fowwm rlgM,sm?s forms? UNKgSt Ctummisshnerfor IHImmam
BsiEIlgLwik. 13“^ Jmly 2®©4 ; “People Jiving with IfflV/AIDS meed access to not jrnst
medlchi.es, but food, shelter, jobs and other basic human righto,” says People’s Charter on
KIV/ AIDS, am initiative off fie People’s Health Movement (PHM).
PZ-2M ■ s am fetemeifenal coalition off grassroots movements and health professionals fiat has a
presence in nearly IS® countries.
While fie r.'cNUz respomse to SIffV/Ai®S ds emrrently defined by politics, profits and patents,
fie _-ec’_.:®5s Charter or EIV/ AIDS cals for actions fiat put people first.
“HZV/AIDS is a gEobaL development emergency that requires governments amd ofier agencies
to make an al-ont response,” said Mary Samdasi ffrom Zimbabwe, a PHM delegate to the XV
EntermationaE AIDS Conference being held at Ban^ok, ffrom H6f! to 116th duly 2®®4>. “But
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•s no sense of urgency.”
?HM is isunchmg th® People’s Charier on HIV/ AIDS at the Bangkok conference.
Tils HIV/AIDS charter sails for people’s action and governmental as well as international
mitiatfves to commit enough resources NOW.
"The charter is an anapHffier off people’s voices,” said Dr Unnikrishnan PV, a spokesperson for
Ch® People’s Health Movement and ActionAid International. “This is an SOS call for urgent
action,” he said.
“’People living with HIV/AIDS have no access to the basic Jiving resources. That is the real
problem,” said Dr Deien de La Faz from Philippines. “Over 95 percent off them Dive in
developing countries, and it is high time world shared its resources.”
Th ere are over 3§ milllion people worldwide infected with HIV, 25 million off them in SubSaharan Africa.
“Th® cloint off multinational drug companies over the survival of those affected by the
TTZ/AEDS pandemic is a clear indicator that the world needs radical changes,” the HIV/ AIDS
charter argues.
“Access to treatment is a basic human right” sand Mary Robinson former UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights while speaking at .the conference on Monday.
The HIV/ AIDS Charter recognizes the ’killer effects’ of neo-liberal economic policies and free
trade agreements pushed by the World Bank and World Trade Organizations and rich
countries, especially the USA.
The Hl //AIDS charter calls for people-based action, including legal measures to challenge the
exorbitant drug prices brought about by trade agreements in direct violation off th®
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budgets. It criticizes the global military expenditure that has crossed US $ %® billion.
The HIV/ AIDS Charter demands that HIV/ AIDS be placed at the centre of primary health
care activities and calls for radical, pro-people reforms in the approach of governments as welt
as UN institutions like WHO and UNAIDS.
“The acid test of WHO’s 3X5 initiative is an its ability to strengthen primary health care
systems,” said Dr Thelma Narayan from India. Through 3X5 initiative, WHO promises AntiRetroviral Treatment for 3 million people in developing countries by 2®®5.
The HIV/ AIDS Charter has been developed through discussions and debates at various levels
«local village gatherings to international forums. Various constituencies are extending their
solidarity. They include positive peoples’ networks, village health workers, women’s groups,
human rights activists, medical professionals, trade unionists and campaigners working for
b shier access to health care and medicines.
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The HIV/ AIDS Charter as also supported by various international agencies including
ActionAid International, Italian Raoul Follereau Association (AIFO), Italy, WiEMOS,
I/EEDACT, (Equinet (South Africa), (Global Equity Gauge Alliance, Churches Action for
Health, Health Action International and National Front in Defense of (People’s Health,
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'T'-. aave isea tost im Africa slhouM cot go as waste. Asia , Latin America and rest of
wcr'.d should team from tiiese cosily lessons” says the People’s Charter on HIV/ AIDS.
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(CJROA?); Dag Hammarskjold Foundation (©HF); Gonoshasthaya Kendra, (GK);
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[pha-r.cc] Palestine:::::::::::: Statement by PNGO regarding the Advisory Opinion of the
International Court of Justice
Statemsnt by th® Palestinian N©n-=Gowmm@ntai ©irgaiwattens’
Network (PNGO) regarding the AdMs©ry Opmton ©ff th®
Ontematienai Court off Jostics (DCJ) d®eDarong th® ©onstraetoon
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The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations' Network (PNGO)
wAcct.ss tos landmark Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice
(IJ) . " 9 7 July 2004 which concludes that the construction of the Israeli
Annexation Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) is a violation of
international Jaw, tnat it must be dismantled and that adequate compensation
m jst be paid to all Palestinians whose land was confiscated by Israel to build
the Annexation Wall. The ICJ holds that,
ferae/ fe under an obligation to terminate its breaches of Internationa!
ts/r: it ;s . ■ ctor an obligation fo cease forthwith the works of construction
of the wall being built in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including in
and around East Jerusalem, to dismantle forthwith the structure therein
situates, ur r m mg-at or render In&fdmf/e forthwith ail leglslutrre erf
regulatory act relating thereto...
The ICJ ruling upholds the principles of International Law and affirms that
■c ational Human Rights Law and the Fourth Geneva Convention are
; I! .-.■to.- to dm CRT. The official recognition by the highest international
ega authc rity thatthe Annexation Wall is a violation of international numan
right; • and humanitarian law lends additional moral strength to the Palestinian
people’s rightful struggle for an independent state.
- . 30 urges local, regional and international groups and initiatives to continu 3
their campaigns against the Annexation Wall unrelentingly. Peaceful
resistance to and advocacy activities against the Apartheid Wall on al! levels
largely contributed to last December’s request by the General Assembly of the
to tc the I tod to issue an Advisory Opinion regarding the Wall’s legality,
without which the recent historic ruling would have been impossible. PNGO
'V to townies sto lees'. and international groups campaigning against the Annexation
’Wai! for their commitment and devotion and encourages them to continue on
to.to r :.to.. rtoto? .. i- to. th® process of putting together an action plan outlining
/*■ how the Network intends to organize, implement and coordinate local and
international advocacy activities.
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ICJ’s Advisory Opinion,
' IGO calls upon the government of Israel to terminate the consHuction of the
Annexation Wall in the OPT without delay, to dismantle all sections of the Wall
which have already been erected, to repeal all legislative and regulatory
provisions relating to the Wall and to provide compensation to fA
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who have been affected by the Wall’s construction.
SO calls upon the Security Council and the General Assembly of the
. te Nations to take concrete steps to stop Israel’s violation of international
; a ■ aamanaea oy tne ICJ.
PXGG oats upon the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva
Convention to take all measures necessary to enforce the provisions of the
ICJ ruling, including the imposing of sanctions on Israel.
“A A A calls upon the international community to uphold their legal obligations
by putting pressure on the government of Israel to abide by international law
and implement the provisions of the ICJ ruling in their entirety.
PNGO calls upon the United States of America to stop its material support for
. which directly contributes to the construction of the Annexation Wail
ruled illegal under international law.
PNGO calls upon the European Union to annul its preferential trade
rear? ent with Israel.
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humanitarian crisis in Darfur- PHM statement.doc
pHM_Steering_Group_02-03] PHM draft statement on Darfur- DRAFT NOT FOR CIRCULATION
Dear Mwajuma and friends
Attached please find a draft statement. The copy of the same is below. This is not for circulation.
It is indeed a humanitarian crisis fast becoming a political crisis. I have been careful while using the term
genocide and put the same in quotes. Stressing it would be stamping a visa for the US forces.
Please read, edit and return ASAP, preferably by August 18th midnight GMT. I will incorporate all comments and
we can issue it on 19th early morning. Please use track changes mode if your comments are more than one
sentence. Three endorsements and no negative response will be taken as a green signal.
I hope/ wish some day PHM will respond - not just through a statement but hands on support for the affected I
Regards and in solidarity
Unni
PS: 1 have been in touch with ICRC, MSF. OXFAM and others on this through ActionAid. It is an explosive
situation.
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People’s Health Movement (PHM) expresses serious concerns over the
-eerisurs humanitarian crisis that is currently unfolding in Darfur,
Western Sudan. More than a million people have been uprooted from
their homes.
“We appeal to the African Union and the United Nations to step in and
act without any further delay” said Mwajuma S. Masaiganah, PHM focal
person for East and Centra! Africa.
PHM is an international coalition of grass roots movements, health
professionals and humanitarian workers that has a presence in nearly
100 countries. Several frontline health and humanitarian workers, who
often work in conflict situations, are members of the PHM.
“At stake are the lives of millions of people. Unattended, the situation
may lead to a regional crisis with catastrophic results” warned a PHM
“We condemn the barbaric acts of violence and torture that has been
inflicted on ordinary civilians by the Janjawid militia” said a PHM
statement. Reports indicate that the militia has been working hand in
glove 'with the arms of Sudanese government.
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^^JTmmediate steps are necessary to stop this^Genocide. Reports of
geaoekie, torture and rape have reached epidemic proportions with
catastrophic affects on ordinary people, especially women and children,
causing immeasurable sufferings” said a PHM statement.
The worsening weather situation has amplified the crisis. Health systems
have broken down making health care and humanitarian assistance a
nightmare.
“We also appeal to the international humanitarian and development
agencies to step up their efforts in providing life line relief and
humanitarian assistance to the affected people” said a PHM
spokesperson. _-_amani^arian agencies are battling massive mgisvics
obstacles and daunting security challenges to help hundreds of
thousands of people uprooted by the conflict.
Over one million people have been displaced within Darfur, where
militias have reportedly forced hundreds of thousands of people from
their homes. Many have been killed, tortured and raped in what is
considered to be bne of the worst genocides’ in Africa. Another 170,000
Sudanese have fled across the border to neighboring Chad. The plight of
the refugees are also critical.
People’s Charter for Health, the largest consensus document on health
and the moving spirit of the PHM app^aJe-tozcondemrt>the use of child
soldiers, and the abuse and rape, torture and killing of women and
■-ordinator: PHM secretariat
Mwajuma S. Masaiganah
Focal Person: East & Central Africa.
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[PHM_Steering_Group_02-03] PHM draft statement on Darfur- DRAFT NOT FOR CIRCULATION
Genocide
• The legal definition of GENOCIDE: The international legal definition of the crime of genocide is found in Articles II and III
of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Article II describes the two elements that constitute
the crime of genocide:
1. the mental element, meaning the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as
such", and
2. the physical element which includes five types of violence described in sections [a] through [e] as follows:
[a] Killing members of the group: [b] Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group: [c] Deliberately inflicting
on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part: [d] Imposing measures
intended to prevent births within the group; [e] Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Maria
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[PHM_Steering_Group_02-03] Sudan- Darfur-
Deai- Pam, Mwajuma and friends
A PHM statement will be ready by today evening. The issues are complex and not just health / humanitarian. The
positions taken by some of the humanitarian agencies is bit vague, making it more complex to draft a statement.
The following articles may throw extra light on the "hidden issues" behind the Darfur crisis. I may warn the
readers that these may be just two opinions.
Regards
Unni
Sudan Update: Is oil tire issue? [two articles]
http: '/www.qermsn-foreiqn-policv.com/en/news/arr icle/1090879200.php
Nucleus of a Germ
BAD OLDESLCE/JUBA (Own Report/ - The foreign ministers of the European Union
demand. under threat of sanctions in case of refusal, that Sudan disarm Arab
militias. uith that the EU follows the demands by the German government
which seeks to increase German influence in Sudan with its Darfur policy, in
the meantime, the designated autonomous South Sudanese government which is
backed by Berlin's anti-Khartoum policy, has awarded the contract for a
railroad line worth billions to the German company (Thormaehlen
Schweisstechnik - relding Engineering). A representative of the company
confirmed to the editors that the project, carried out by the Germans,
serves the development of huge, newly discovered natural resources in the
South of Sudan, and is considered e nucleus of a future East African free
trade zone. This will cause conflict with the oil interests of the Chinese
People’s Republic.
Taking the Initiative
Berlin succeeded with its efforts in the Darfur crisis to expand German
influence in Sudan vis-a-vis the Anglo-American powers. The peace
negotiations between the central government in Khartoum and the Southern
Sudanese rebel organisation SPLM/A (Sudanese People’s Liberation
Movement/Amy) , which have been taking place since June 2002 in Kenya, had
initially been influenced by the United States and the former colonial power
Great Britain.1) The German government demands decisive action against
Khartoum and has dominated the direction of the international debate in the
Darfur crisis for months.2, Critics noted that Kerstin Mueller, of the
Foreign Office, openly considered action by German military forces in Sudan
in late December of 2003. Shortly afterwards, at the beginning of 2004,
Thormaehlen Schweisstechnik began to negotiate the construction of the
railroad line between the Southern Sudanese city of Juba and the Kenyan port
city Mombasa.
Against China
Bi th the award of the rail road project, the German company prevailed over a
Chinese one which also had applied for the construction of this
transportation link.3) The People’s Republic of China has, for quite some
tine, sought to secure its growing need for energy with independent
development of natural oil resources. Presently, Chinese companies are
participating in the exploration of Sudanese oil fields and had taken part
in the construction of a pipeline to the northern Sudanese Port Sudan, which
is new being threatened with a bypass. The German foreign minister
negotiated intensively with the Chinese government about the Darfur crisis
during his recent visit to the Chinese capital. However, Beijing still
refuses to agree to sanctions against Khartoum in the UN Security Council.
Connection
During a conversation with this editor, the representative of Thormaehlen
explained that in the region of the South Sudanese civil war immense oil
resources were aiscovered during the past five years along with extensive
minerals
diamonds) which, because of the fighting, could not be
ievelot-ed. According
most recent estimates it could be the second largest
deoori": m tr.e world. , ,For two and one half years”
a transport connection
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frc-a Sudan's South to Kenya for the removal of raw materials, in order to
avoid crossing , ,Arab-IslaBic territory" in the north of Sudan is under
discussion. The representative of the company confirms that the recently
awarded railroad line Juba-Mombasa shall establish the ,,connection with the
western oriented world". The German company states that in addition ,,there
will surely be the continuation of a pipeline into the South".
Becoming indispensable
In the meantime the plans for the railroad advance. The project is not only
to open up oil fields but also to connect Southern Sudan with Kenya ana
Uganda, thus serving the creation of a western oriented economic region in
East Africa. Thormaehlen Schweisstechnik explains to this editor that the
plans - which began originally with 2,500 kilometers of tracks - now include
4,100 kilometers and ,,that this is only the beginning.” Numerous additional
projects (shipping on the Hile, telecommunication, etc.) are planned. ,, Most
of those assume that North and South Sudan will separate" according to the
company which is in direct negotiations with the Kenyan government and the
leadership of SPLM/A. Thus, South Sudan, Kenya and Uganda plan a ,,free
trade tone based on the European model". The German company plays a central
role in this case: ,,Nothing can be accomplished without the railroad”
according to Thoricaehlen. The Kenyan press writes that this project lends
itself , .-to changing the political and geographical landscape of the
cont inent."
I) Sudan: Oelfirmen verstossen gegen Menschenrechte; www.hrw.org
2) See also earlier article Extensive Mineral Resources
3} German Consortium to Build Sh23Db Railway; The East African Standard
19.07.2004
Li i:: http ://vww. ger man-foreign-policy .con//en/news/ar tide/1090879200.php
published: 27. Jul 2004
Informationen zur Deutschen Auflenpolitik
www.german-foreign-policy.com
http://bellaciao.ora/en/article.php3?id uarticle=2237
Saturday 31st July 2004
Sudan: Round Gazillion
By Stephen Gowans
The United States and Britain are playing the ethnic cleansing and genocide
cards. Again. This time in Sudan. And while there may indeed be a genocide
going on, it's very unlikely either country cares overly much about ethnic
cleansing and the destruction of a people.
After all, they have always been quite willing to live with, even
perpetrate, atrocities every bit as vile, if, somewhere down the line,
there’s a buck in it.
And in Kosovo, where they said there was a genocide planned and ordered by
Slobodan Milosevic (but have failed to produce any evidence or testimony to
that effect at the Hague Tribunal), and where in the aftermath of the MATO
war thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Roma have been driven from their homes,
ethnic cleansing has been both a pretext to wage war, and, where it offers
no geo-strategic benefit, something to be ignored.
Shat’s more likely to be the case is that the conflict in Sudan provides a
compelling pretext for military intervention, one which could eventually see
the US and Britain stumble into Sudanese oil wells, while claiming to be
rescuing the victims of ethnic cleansing.
Here's what's said to be going on; Arab militias, the Janjaweed, have
pursued a campaign of ethnic cleansing, displacing more than one million
from their homes in Sudan’s Darfur region and driving them into filthy,
disease ridden refugee camps in neighboring Chad, (much as numberless
Afghans were driven by US bombs into filthy, disease ridden refugee camps in
neighboring Pakistan.)
On the surface, it seems simple enough. Ethnic cleansing. Maybe genocide. An
obligation on the part of the international community to act. But it’s not
quite as simple as that.
For one thing, Sudan has oil — lots of it.
And there's been a 21-year long civil war raging in the country, with the
secessionist Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, which seeks
self-determination in the south, battling the government in Khartoum, not
one of Washington's favorites.
The SPLA, backed by the US, is said to employ terrorism against civilians to
further its aims — hardly the kind of organization the US is supposed to be
backing, yet precisely the kind of organization the US government takes a
shni? to, if its interests are served. The US doesn’t abhor terrorism so
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much as terrorism that works against its interests, rather than for them.
And there’s China. Dangerously dependent on US controlled sources of oil,
it’s involved in a consortium developing Sudan's oil. China needs to
cultivate sources of supply outside the US orbit.
Problems is. at every turn, the US is tnere to thwart its plans. The
Shanghai Five, a security organization China established to protect a
planned pipeline to carry petroleum resources from the oil rich Caspian Sea,
fell apart when the US invaded Afghanistan and set up bases throughout
Central Asia-along the proposed pipeline route.
And China also had a deal to develop Iraqi oil -- one that’s unlikely to be
honored, now that the US has 141,000 troops in the country, and has
installed its own people in Iraq’s interim government to look out for the
interests of corporate America.
Slocking Chinese oil deal.-: in Iraq, scuppering the Shanghai Five, and
working to undermine Chinese oil field development in Sudan serves a
strategic goal of the US: to limit the rise of a great power rival. Keeping
China (along with the European Union and Japan) dependent on the US for
access to oil, is one way of ensuring US primacy remains unchallenged.
Is it any wonder then chat China is reluctant to approve a proposed UN
Security Council Resolution imposing sanctions on Sudan, or that it refused
to authorize the US invasion of Iraq (or that the US is seeking one in
Sudan, and sought a UN imprimatur to conquer Iraq)?
Face it. The US doesn't care about ethnic cleansing. It’s seeking to
dominate the oil producing regions of the world: to secure its own oil
supply; to ensure oil sales continue to be denominated in US dollars (thus
propping up the dollar in the face of a yawning trade deficit); and to
ensure strategic
competitors -Japan, Europe and China remain dependent on the US for access to
It doesn't give a damn about ethnic cleansing. Look around at who the US
steadfastly supports. Israel, one of Washington’s favorites, was founded on
athnic cleansing. Hundreds of thousands of Arabs were driven into squalid,
disease-ridden refugee camps in neighboring countries, where they and their
descendants still live, many decades later.
If Washington is so concerned about ethnic cleansing, why isn’t it
threatening
Israel with sanctions and military intervention? And as far as US
legislators are concerned, the right of Palestinians to return to the homes
they were driven from or fled - a measure that would reverse ethnic
cleans ir.g -
is camp
Ly out of the question.
Indeed, rather than opposing Israel’s actions, the US abets the Zionist
state, and facilitates the ongoing expansion of its borders -- at the
Palestinians’ expense. Is this the behavior of a country that abhors ethnic
cleansing and genocide?
A closer parallel is Colombia, in which a decades long civil war has raged
between the government, right-wing paramilitaries, and Leftist guerilla
groups. While the government and paramilitaries have engaged in the seme
activities the Janjaweed are accused or, us policy has been to support the
government, and to oppose the guerillas.
If they car;, the US and its British ally will use the civil war in Sudan as
a pretext to intervene militarily, to secure control of the country’s oil
resources, m the sane way they’ve done in Iraq, and in the same way they
□ay soon do - even if there’s a Democrat m the White House - in Iran.
Great capitalist powers don’t care about the fate of people abroad, or about
most pec-pie who live within their own borders, for that natter. There’3 too
ouch evidence of their indifference to believe otherwise. But what they do
care about is markets, and opportunities for profitable investment, and
sources of raw materials, especially oil.
Civil wars, ethnic cleansing, and genocide come in handy when the commercial
interests of a country’s business class can be pursued by military means.
They offer a ready made justification for invasion. But more than that,
these grin events are often outcomes of the very same scramble for markets,
investment opportunities and raw materials.
The US, UK and Germany were very much involved in fomenting the ethnic
conflict in the former Yugoslavia, encouraging Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia
to secede. The US funneled arms to the Bosnian Muslims, facilitated the flow
of Mujahedeen into Bosnia, provided intelligence to the Croats, and, with
Germany and Britain, trained and equipped the KLA, among other things.
Once the kindling of ethnic conflict was carefully gathered in a pile, and a
soark added, the roaring fire was cited as a rationale to hurry to the
scene, with fire hoses at the ready. Problem is, the fire hoses were just
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pro's
r- gain entry. The. ‘ires were left to rage unchecked.
.<■'.<1 the us, as backer of the SPLA, is hardly innocent of involvement in
-udan’s lor.c running civil war, or, through the billions of dollars in aid
it provides Tercel every yesr, of the ethnic cleansing carried out by Israel
in Palestine.
u’estecn intervention m trouble spots, then, can hardly be meliorative. The
Seat itself is in many instances at least partly, if not wholly responsible
for the very conflicts it proposes to resolve through intervention.
In the long running serial of imperialist intervention, Sudan is just
another episode.
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"Mwajuma S. Masaiganah" <masaigana@africaonline.co.tz>
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004 1:32 PM
Re: URGENT : ClarificationDarfur- PHM statement
Dear Unni,
You know I am not very fluent in English, but from the definitions that have been given by our colleagfues. give us a bit of idea
and enables us to think twice on how and whether we use the word or not. What are the quesquences of using the term and
especially with the US putting itself in the forefront of it as it does on everything. Yes. look at how we can use it, may be with a
phrase defining what we mean. It is indeed a kind of cleanisng taking place. If we were not afraid of it being misntepreted by
the big cat. then genocide would be a proper word to use, as what is happening in Sudan is not different with what happened
in Rwanda or DRC. Please see what and how best you can use the word.
I thank you all again for your inputs and support.
Regards,
Mwajuma
— Original Message —
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To: Mwajuma S. Masaiganah
Cc: pamzinkin
8/19/04
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Wednesday, August 13, 2004 9:46 PM
RE: [PHM_Steering_Group_02-03] PHM draft statement on Darfur- DRAFT NOT FOR
CIRCULATION
It isn't semantics. As Maria pointed out there is a legal definition and
this means military intervention. See the second article that Unni sent us.
That is why he is being correctly cautious.
Pam
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Sent: 18 August 2004 11:02
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Subject Re: [PHM_Steering_Group_02-03] PHM draft statement on Darfur- DRAFT
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004 3:27 AM
Re: RE: [PHM_Steering_Group_02-03] Darfur crisis
Dear Pam.
First of all thanks to those who wrote back.
If one was closely following the Sudan issue, ( tins includes Southern Sudan
Crisis), it includes both religion and minerals. The current crisis follows
the same route with many outside/extemal influences involved in it
including Cliina who abstained in the last security council voting because of
its interests in Northern Sudan. It did not want to anger tire Sudanese
government. And the Germans, Americans (read the articles below for more
clarity). Yes, and what else, there is much in the cleansing than ethnic as
it might be thought Ethnic is just part of it which angers us even more.
I am wondering. Unni has not responded at all, is he available, reading his
emails or somewhere travelling. Please Unni write a Press Statement/Release
on this! Lets support each other. African issues should be made known to the
world and especially when something like this is happening, we have to show
our stand as a group safeguarding the rights of people of the whole world.
Best regards,
Mwajuma
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004 3:31 PM
Re: [PHM_Steering_Gi'oup_02-03] PHM draft statement on Darfur- DRAFT NOT FOR
CIRCULATION
Dear Unni,
Thank you for giving all of us a deadline. We have
wasted valuable time on semantics. And English is not
the first language for most of us. I know the meaning
of genocide. 1 also know that a person who does
nothing, not even lift a finger to type a message,
when heshe is aware that genocide is taking place
somewhere, is equally guilty of geoncide. This is why
in my first response to you I urged you to send our
strong protest straigtaway. Anyway, better late titan
never. Keep up your excellent work on behalf of PHM.
Best wishes, Bala
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004 2:14 AM
RE: [PHM_Steering_Group_02-03] PHM draft statement on Darfur- DRAFT NOT FOR
CIRCULATION
Dear Unni and Mwajuma
Thanks for the statement and the explanatory article. I agree that we have to be careful. But I am not sure about
genocide in quotes. You have only done that once in any case. In two other places it is not in quotes. If we do not
want to use this word, because it is mandatory for foreign, UN, USA etc military intervention, then perhaps we can
use other words - mass murder,
The definition 1 have found is tins : Genocide - murder of an entire ethnic group, the systematic killing
of people from a national, ethnic or religious group or an attempt to do tliis
Can others advise. It is a really serious political balance. Those from the African continent may ber in a better
position to advise.
Pam
From: UNNIKRISHNAN P.V.
8/18/04
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004 3:49 AM
PHM - humanitarian crisis in Darfur- PHM statement.doc
Re: jPHM_Steering_Group_02-03] PHM draft statement on Darfur- DRAFT NOT FOR
CIRCULATION
Dear Unni.
Thanks a lot. I just sent out a letter wondering whether you are able to receive emails Yes. I have changed the top of the
statement where it originates from, It is not Johannesburg (South Africa), it is Bagamoyo (Tanzania). Please read the article I
sent in with my response to Pams letter, may be it can give you more insights.
Thanks for this, as the situation is worsening. I knew this is almost nothing, but it is something, it shows our support. May be
one day we can get in and say no in one way or another.
Thanks again.
8/19/04
DRAFT KOT FOR CIRCULATION
PEOPLE’S HEALTH MOVEMENT EXPRESSES SERIOUS
CONCERN OVER THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
IN DARFUR, SUDAN.
PHM appeals to the African Union and United .Nations to “step in
and act”
Bangalore (India) &
18th August 2004:
People’s Health Movement (PHM) expresses serious concerns over the
serious humanitarian, crisis that is currently unfolding in Darfur,
Western Sudan. More than a million people have been uprooted from
their homes.
“We appeal to the African Union and the United Nations to step in and
act without any further delay” said Mwajuma S. Masaiganah, PHM focal
person for East and Central Africa.
PHM is an international coalition of grass roots movements, health
professionals and humanitarian workers that, has a presence in nearly
100 countries. Several frontline health and humanitarian workers, who
often work in conflict situations, are members of the PHM.
“At stake are tire lives of millions of people. Unattended, the situation
may lead to a regional crisis with catastrophic results” warned a PHM
spokesperson.
“We condemn the barbaric acts of violence and torture that has been
inflicted on ordinary civilians by the Janjawid militia" said a PHM
statement. Reports indicate that the militia has been working hand in
glove with the arms of Sudanese government.
“Immediate steps are necessary to stop tliis Genocide. Reports of
genocide, torture and rape have reached epidemic proportions with
catastrophic affects on ordinary people, especially women and children,
causing immeasurable sufferings” said a PHM statement.
The worsening weather situation has amplified the crisis. Health systems
have broken down making health care and humanitarian assistance a
nightmare.
“We also appeal to the international humanitarian and development
agencies to step up their efforts in providing life line relief and
humanitarian assistance to the affected people” said a PHM
spokesperson. Humanitarian agencies are battling massive logistics
obstacles and daunting security challenges to help hundreds of
thousands of people uprooted by the conflict.
Over one million people have been displaced within Darfur, where
militias have reportedly forced hundreds of thousands of people from
their homes. Many have been killed, tortured and raped in what is
considered to be one of the worst ‘genocides’ in Africa. Another 170,000
Sudanese have fled across the border to neighboring Chad. The plight of
the refugees are also critical,
People’s Charter for Health, the largest consensus document on health
and the moving spirit of the PH M appeals to condemn the use of child
soldiers, and the abuse and rape, torture and killing of women and
children”
Ravi Narayan
Co-ordinator; PHM secretariat
Mwajuma S. Masaiganah
Focal Person : East & Central Africa
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Thursday, August 19, 2004 10.42 AM
DARFUR, SUDAN- HUMANITARIAN CRISIS : Press Statement of the PEOPLE'S HEALTH
MOVEMENT
PEOPLE’S HEALTH MOVEMENT
Press Release
(HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN DARFUR, SUDAN)
PEOPLE’S HEALTH MOVEMENT EXPRESSES SERIOUS
CONCERNS OVER THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN DARFUR,
SUDAN.
PEOPLE’S HEALTH MOVEMENT appeals to the African Union and United Nations to “step in
and act”
Bagamoyo (Tanzania) & Bangalore (India) ; 19th August 2004: People’s Health Movement (PHM)
expresses serious concerns over the humanitarian crisis that is currently unfolding m Darfur, Western
Sudan. More than a million people have been uprooted from their homes.
“We appeal to the African Union and the United Nations to step in and act without any further delay” said
Mwajuma S. Masaiganah, PHM focal person for East and Central Africa.
PHM is an international coalition of grass roots movements, health professionals and humanitarian workers
that has a presence in nearly 100 countries. Several frontline health and humanitarian workers, who often
work in conflict situations, are members of the PHM.
“At stake are the lives of millions of people. Unattended, the situation may lead to a regional crisis with
catastrophic results” warned a PHM spokesperson.
“We condemn the barbanc acts of violence and torture that has been inflicted on ordinary civilians by the
Jartjawid militia” said a PHM statement. Reports indicate that the militia has been working hand in glove with
the arms of Sudanese government.
“Immediate steps are necessary to stop this ‘genocide’. Reports of ‘mass murder’, torture and rape have
reached epidemic proportions with catastrophic affects on ordinary people, especially women and children,
causing immeasurable sufferings” said a PHM statement.
The worsening weather situation has amplified the crisis. Health systems have broken down making health
care and humanitarian assistance a nightmare.
“We also appeal to the international humanitarian and development agencies to step up their efforts in
providing life line relief and humanitarian assistance to the affected people” said a PHM spokesperson.
Humanitarian agencies are battling massive logistics obstacles and daunting security challenges to help
hundreds of thousands of people uprooted by the conflict.
Over one million people have been displaced within Darfur, where militias have reportedly forced hundreds of
thousands of people from their homes. Many have been killed, tortured and raped in what is considered to be
'one of the worst genocides’ in Africa. Another 170,000 Sudanese have fled across the border to neighbouring
Chad. The plight of the refugees are also critical.
People’s Charter for Health, the largest consensus document on health and the moving spirit of the PHM,
also condemns the use of child soldiers, and the abuse and rape, torture and killing of women and children.
Ravi Narayan
Co-ordinator: PHM secretariat
Mwajuma S. Masaiganah
Focal Person: East & Central Africa
8/19/04
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Dear Dr Ravi Narayan,
Thank you for your message. I am now in Ahmedabad (for trustees meeting of CERC, Consumer
i will contact the B'lore secretariat as soon as I return to Bangalore on 15th.Regards,
Sakuntala Narasimhan
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. g lai hearings ofPHM India / JSA and XHRC on Denials of Health Care
- Bhopla, Bangalore, Chennai - later Lucknow. Kolkata. Guwahati. So perhaps
one way to stay in the circle is to actively connect to events locally and
te a member of the country delegation etc. Perhaps you should
send you? papers into the PHM Exchange regularly etc. Lets discuss it
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’Shammy Baweja" <shammy@tehelka.com>
Friday, September 03, 2004 12:22 PM
Subject:
Re:
Dear Harinder,
Greetings from PHM Secretariat (Global)!
The iCMR • ICSSR report is a 1981 report. I think doing a piece on that (the chapter on drugs)
alone is a bit outdated, why not add the Jana Swasthya Abhiyan booklet 5, which I metnioned
and the current PHM - JSA concerns about the Market concerns taking over from people's
needs? This as well, may be a good piece. I can send you some materials but if we could
meet, that could be even better. I had meant my letter io be a letter to the editor, since 1
thought a response from a MD (AllMS) to your expiose would give it even greater value. We
are in touch with one of your reporters, Radhika in Bangalore, who attended the Bangalore
Urban hearing on Denials of Right to Health Care. She can report the case studies she heard
about. We also have leads about unnecessary investigations, unnecessary surgeries and other
unethical issues that need your investigations. We have PHM coileagues in many cities and
most of us incidentally are doctors as well. Where are you based?
Best 'wishes
Dr. Ravi Narayan - MD (AllMS), DTPH (LONDON), DIH (UK)
Coordinator
PHM Secretariat (Global)
Bangalore
9/3/04
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"rupa chinai" <rupachinai68@yahoo.com>
"Ravi Narayan" <secretariat@phmovement.org>
Sunday, September 25, 2005 8:08 PM
WHO Bulletin -2
Dear Ravi,
Trust you received my earlier mail. Here is a sumary
of what I want to do with the story Im planning for
the WHO Bulletins, and the questions I think should be
asked, as also people who I plan to quote.
Would it be possible for you to give me a brief para
that responds to the questions, particularly the first
three in your case. Please get back as soon as
possible and please tell me if you think this jells,
whether there is anyone else I should talk to.
Warm regards,
Rupa
Questions:
-Flow does research work for community?
-What is public money being spent on and what should
it?
-Is there an asian/south view versus what contemporary
development thinking is preaching?
-How are these results and services currently
delivered in a city like Mumbai and how ideally should
they be? .
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Story summary:
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International researchers who gathered at the Global
Forum for Health Research in Mumbai recently would
have done well to look beyond the confines of their
five star enclaves to study how an embattled city was
coping in the aftermath of the killer deluge that hit
it on July 26th. It would have presented them with an
idea of how health systems, both private and public,
work or do not work, in a typical developing country.
Research that integrates quantity and quality, which
is shared with communities and empowers them towards
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social action is the new political paradigm emerging
in countries of Asia and Africa say experts attending
the recent Global Forum for Health Research in Mumbai.
While the overarching trend at the Forum, aimed at
bridging the '10/90 Gap' was with drugs, vaccines,
diagnostics, bed nets and condoms, as a means of
solving developing country problems, a strong southern
perspective at this Forum, both in presentations and
during "market place' discussions, emerged to
challenge contemporary' development thinking.
Research evidence showing the disastrous impact of
user fees and withdrawal of public sector subsidies,
as in the 14 national Asia-Pacific study of EQUITAP,
which was presented at the Forum, was vital to India
where this information has not yet impinged on policy
makers. A few other presentations presented insights
on the problem of the disconnect between policy and
delivery at ground level, but there were few clues on
how to change it.
The recent killer deluge in Mumbai revealed how the
public health system, though neglected in favour of
privatisation, still rose to the occasion and came to
the rescue of citizens. Health officials and
independent consultants who closely work with the
health system in Mumbai explain how research can play
a vital role in strengthening resource management,
both human and operational — issues that are key to
understanding health delivery in developing countries.
Quotes from:
-Mumbai health authorities.
-Independent consultants and NGO's familiar with the
Mumbai health system.
Global Forum:
-African delegate: Lot Nyirenda, scientist with
Research for Equity and Community Health Trust in
Malawi.
-Di McIntyre, Associate Professor at the Health
Economics Unit, School of Public Health and Family
Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
-Prof. Stephen Matlin, executive director, Global
Forum for Health Research.
-Lucy Gilson, Associate Professor, Centre for Health
Policy, School of Public Health, Johannesburg.
-Equitap study.
-Dr.Ravi Narayan, coordinator, People's Health
9/26/05
Some of the events happening towards the Global dav of Action
(As of 16.02.2005)
21st Jan 2005 - A Parents Convention was held in Chennai
9lh Feb 2005 - A workshop was held on the Indian Patents Amendment with other Trade Lnions
by AMTC India in Mumbai
12Ih Feb 2005 - A City Meeting was held at Hyderabad against the Indian Patents Amendment
13Ih Feb 2005 - At a meeting of the Western Regional Organisations held in Mumbai, the Indian
Patents Amendment issue was taken up for debate.
15Ih Feb 2005 - A Workshop is being held in Kolkata against the Patents Amendment
19lh Feb 2005 - A Patents Convention is planned in Pune
20lh Feb 2005 - A Patents Convention held by FMRAI in Mumbai
21SI Feb 2005 - A workshop with the Health Care workers is going to be held in Bangalore
26'h Feb 2005 - A huge Rally is planned in New Delhi against the Patent Amendment
26th Feb 2005 - Dhama organised by AMTC in Mumbai
26th Feb 2005 - A Protest in Bangalore against the Patents Amendment
26 " Feb 2005 - A workshop followed by Rally in Dharwad against the Patents Amendment
26'“ Feb 2005 - Rallies organized at the various District Headquarters in Karnataka against
the Patents Amendment
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"Research that strengthens the case of what communities want and spurs them to social
action, is the new political paradigm that is emerging in the countries of Asia and Africa,
and in Mexico", says Dr. Ravi Narayan, global secretariat coordinator of the
People's Health Movement, who was present at the Mumbai Forum.
Explaining this. Dr. Narayan said, researchers focus on getting statistical data, but often
miss out on obtaining qualitative information through interaction with the community.
Such integrated research becomes a link between investigators and community and helps
to create understanding and empowerment over what needs to be done.
The Union Carbide gas leak disaster in the city of Bhopal, India in 1984, is a case in
point. Dr. Narayan said. The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), due to
some medico-legal implications, were unable to share findings with the gas affected.
Civil society organisations especially the medico friend circle stepped in to do an
epidemiological study. They used the ICMR members to allow for a later cross check and
shared their findings with the community in the form of a simple Hindi comic explaining
to them what it meant,. Many others studies). This sort of follow up of sharing helped the
women of Bhopal start 20 year long movement for treatment and compensation having
some knowledge of what had happened to their bodies.
In another initiative a group of environmental activists worked with CHC,a Civil Society
public health resource group in Bangalore, India. And initiated a process entitled CHESS
(Community Health Environment Survey Skill Share) training activists and local people
(in communities dealing with a
eXj of environmental pollutants) - lay
epidemiological techniques so that they could collect their own evidence on health effects
of environmental pollutants. Many studies have been initiated by these activists with
interesting results helping advocacy^public interest legislatiomor repertsRo National
Human Rights Cetmeil OF-other-sueh.
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Saturday, September 17, 2005 12.54 PM
connect
Dear Ravi.
Hope you dont mind my addressing you so informally as
we have briefly met for the first time at the Global
Forum, though I have long heard about your work.
I wonder if there is a way to connect with you so that
I can familiarise with the issues you are working on
in health. If that is possible, my contact is:
Rupa Chinai,
12B Vaibhav Apartments,
80 B. Desai Road,
Mumbai 400 026.
Res. Tel: (022) 23640168.
Email: rupachinai68@yahoo.com
I am currently working as an independent journalist,
having just finished a book project co-authoring a
book with Rani Bang of SEARCH in Gadchiroli district.
I used to be in full-time journalism writing on health
and development issues. For nine years I was the
special correspondent of the Times of India until I
resigned two years ago. I have also worked with The
Indian Express and The Sunday Observer in the past.
With warm regards,
Rupa
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"Ravi Narayan" <secretariat@phmovement.org>
Monday, September 26, 2005 9:28 PM
URGENT: case studies for Bulletin story
Dear Ravi,
Hope you received my earlier message outlining the
story Im working on for the WHO Bulletin. The core
theme is how research can help communities access
health care. You had mentioned the example of the
Bhopal women.
1 wonder if you could please help me. Could you
please outline this Bhopal case study in two paras or
so? I am thinking of citing two case studies as a
lead, one could be the Bhopal example, but I need one
more, from an individual's story.
The following is what I had got from you when we met
in Mumbai. Have I quoted you right? Do you want to
improve on it in any way? The Bhopal story needs a few
more details. Communities collecting their own data did that also happen in Bhopal? Any other examples
that I could cite? Can you give me an idea of how I
can get an individual case study and link it to how
research would have helped that person access health
services? Do you have such an example?
I would greatly appreciate your response to this
message as fast as possible.
Regards,
Rupa
Dr. Ravi Narayan:
"Research that strengthens the case of what
communities want and spurs them to social action, is
the new political paradigm that is emerging in the
countries of Asia and Africa, and in Mexico", says Dr.
Ravi Narayan, global secretariat coordinator of the
People's Health Movement, who was present at the
Mumbai Forum.
Explaining this, Dr. Narayan said, researchers focus
on getting statistical data, but often miss out on
obtaining qualitative information through interaction
with the community. Such integrated research becomes a
9/27/05
Page 2 of 2
link between investigators and community and helps to
create understanding and empowerment over what needs
to be done.
1 he Union Carbide gas leak disaster in the city of
Bhopal. Indiafis a case in point, Dr. Narayan said.
The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), due to
some medico-legal implications, were unable to share
findings with the gas affected. Civil society
organisations^stepped in to follow the same research
protocal as the ICMR doctors and shared their findings
with the community, explaining to them what it meant.
This information helped the women of Bhopal lead a
20-year long movement for treatment and compensation,
having knowledge of what had happened to their bodies.
"Communities are now taking the help of young medical
college researchers to collect their own data on
health and environment. People realise that industry
can buy professionals and results can be confused.
There is evidence of this new political paradigm in
health". Dr. Narayan said.
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"Tom Fawthrop" <tomtrib2002@yahoo.co.uk>
"PHM - Secretariat" <secretariat@phmovement org>
Saturday, August 20, 2005 7:41 PM
Re: reply from Tom
Dear Ravi,
Iks your response...
I have made contact with TELESUR SATELLITE CHANNEL
and will hand them copy of Latin American Health watch
and Global Watch.
President Chavez is truly mind-blowing character!!
where else does the leader discuss the history of the
nation...the continent and at same time brandish books
and urge everybody to read more stuff!!
re-PHM - TELESUR canst send me email for Maria Latam
coordinator
all best
Tom
— PHM - Secretariat <secretariat@phmovement.org>
wrote:
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> We have sent you the enclosed reply three times
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> few weeks but we are
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> date gets changed to
> January 1, 1999 so I wonder whether our mail to you
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