PHA-Exchange> LAST CALL FOR JOURNALISTS / MEDIA - Please write back to us by 5 June 24:00 hrs GMT: People's Health Assembly in Ecuador , 17- 22 July 2005 :

[UNNIKRISHNAN P.V. (Dr)]

For mass circulation amongst journalists and media networks:
 
Deadline for application ends on 5 June for the 2nd People's Health
Assembly (Ecuador, 17- 22 July 2005). 
 
Dear friend
 
45 days from now, the People's Health Assembly (PHA-2) will be held in
Cuenca, Ecuador. 1000s of people from nearly 100 countries and various
walks of life are expected to participate in this historic summit and
associated mobilization efforts. Click
http://phmovement.org/pha2/index.php to know more about the assembly. 
 
We take this opportunity to invite you.  Please register your interest
to participate not later than 24:00 hrs GMT on 5 June.
 
For journalists and media people, this is a rare opportunity to report,
interview and photo document a variety of events that will be the
hallmark of PHA-2. This historic summit is being held nearly 5 years
since the first People's Health Assembly (PHA- 1 Bangladesh, Dec 2000).
 
For example, health workers from Bangladesh, indigenous communities from
Australia and Guatemala, consumer activists from Malaysia, disaster
affected communities from Asia, survivors of conflicts and wars from
Africa, first hand witnesses and frontline health workers from occupied
territories of Palestine, Iraq etc are expected. 
 
Women's activists and leading medical professionals from all over the
world, academics, researchers, health workers, students, health
activists, anti-war campaigners; representatives from WHO, PAHO and
other UN organizations, bilateral and multi lateral agencies,
International development and humanitarian agencies; and several well
known people from theatre, music, literature and allied themes are
expected to participate.
 
Colorful events reemphasizing the different facets of health will be in
display. 
 
On 17th of July, hundreds of indigenous people from all over the world
will launch the Millennium Declaration of the Native Peoples of the
World in a colourful ceremony at Parque Arqueológico Pumapungo
(Pumapungo Archeological Park) in Cuenca.
 
The First Global Health Watch Report (the eagerly awaited Alternative
World Health Report) will be launched during PHA 2. Many of the authors
are expected to be present.
Communication and accommodation facilities will be available for
journalists and media people (high speed internet, phones, fax, video
conferencing etc). Journalists and TV crews who would like to go on a
filed visit before the assembly is requested to reach on 13th / 14th of
July. Journalists who would like to report the event and who would like
to do phone-in interviews etc (off-site) may please write to us. 
We look forward to your support, solidarity and active involvement.
Please write back to us by 5 June 24:00 hrs GMT.
 
On behalf of the PHA -2 International Organising Committee (& IOC-PHA
2's Communication Commission and PHM media team)
 
Unni and Satya
 
For details, contact : 
 
Unnikrishnan PV (unnikru at yahoo.com or  unni at actionaid.org Ph (m): +91
98450 91319) or 
 
Satya Sivaraman ( satyasagar at yahoo.com )
 
 


ActionAid is working to MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY in 2005.  
To find out how you can get involved contact: 01460 238027 or visit www.actionaid.org.uk/mph. 

Why not take action today and send a white band message to Tony Blair?
http://www.actionaid.org.uk/campaigns/show_campaign.asp?code=pcrb68 

ActionAid's vision is a world without poverty in which every person can 
exercise their right to a life of dignity. Registered Charity No. 274467
www.actionaid.org.uk

**DISCLAIMER**
This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended
solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. 
If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the postmaster at
mail at actionaid.org.uk


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://phm.phmovement.org/pipermail/phm-exchange-phmovement.org/attachments/20050601/e9a9a8ec/attachment-0001.html>