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<DIV align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Health</SPAN></B></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"></SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=3><STRONG>Conference and Public Meeting 9/10 December 2004</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">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. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">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.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A <B>programme</B> for the conference, details on <B>submission of papers, </B>and a <B>registration form</B> can be downloaded from </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A href="http://www.healthunlimited.org/aboutus/indigenous%20people%20conference.htm">http://www.healthunlimited.org/aboutus/indigenous%20people%20conference.htm</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">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 <I>Global Health Watch</I>, an alternative global health review to be published in July 2005.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">The meeting will be chaired by Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet, and addressed by:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=3> Rosalina Tuyuc <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Indigenous Activist and </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=3> Presidential Delegate for </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=3> Indigenous Affairs, <st1:country-region><st1:place></st1:place></st1:country-region></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Arial size=3><st1:country-region><st1:place> Guatemala</st1:place></st1:country-region> (to </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=3>be confirmed)</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoBodyText style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 171pt; TEXT-INDENT: -135pt; tab-stops: 171.0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial>Professor Jeff Reading <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </SPAN>Scientific Director of the <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>Institute</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName>Aboriginal Peoples</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>' <st1:place><st1:City>Health</st1:City>, <st1:country-region>Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place> and health research advisor to the Assembly of First Nations in <st1:City><st1:place>Ottawa</st1:place></st1:City></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">For further information contact: Ruth Willis<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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