PHA-Exchange> Invitation: Indigenous Peoples* Right to Health Conference

[Ruth Willis]

Indigenous Peoples' Right to Health
 
Did the International Decade of Indigenous Peoples make a difference?
 
Conference and Public Meeting 9/10 December 2004
 To mark the end of the International Decade of Indigenous People and
Human Rights Day on 10 December, Health Unlimited and the London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are holding a conference and a public
meeting on the state of indigenous health at the end of the Decade.  The
conference will provide a unique opportunity for researchers engaged in
work on indigenous health to present their work to an audience of
academics and professionals working in indigenous health including a
number of representatives of indigenous people's organisations.  A
programme for the conference, details on submission of papers, and a
registration form can be downloaded from
http://www.healthunlimited.org/aboutus/indigenous%20people%20conference.htm
A public meeting will be held on 10 December - Human Rights Day - to
mark the end of the International Decade of Indigenous Peoples. A call
for more effective action to secure the right to health for indigenous
peoples will be made based on the findings of the conference and the
chapter on indigenous health in Global Health Watch, an alternative
global health review to be published in July 2005. The meeting will be
chaired by Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet, and addressed by:      
     Rosalina Tuyuc                    Indigenous Activist and          
                                                Presidential Delegate
for                                                          Indigenous
Affairs,                                                         
Guatemala  (to be confirmed) Professor Jeff Reading     Scientific
Director of the Institute of Aboriginal Peoples' Health, Canada and
health research advisor to the Assembly of First Nations in Ottawa For
further information contact: Ruth Willisruth.willis at lshtm.ac.uk or 020
7840 3776Health Unlimited, Unit 6 Park Place, 12 Lawn Lane,London SW8
1UD, United Kingdom







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