<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold">The World Health Organization (WHO)
is pleased to announce the launch of a web-based public hearing <font color="navy"><span style="color:navy"><br>
</span></font>from 21 March to 17 April 2011 on the draft <font color="black"><span style="color:black">of:<br>
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<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="2" color="maroon" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">G</span></font></b><b><font size="2" color="maroon" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:maroon;font-weight:bold">uidelines for monitoring the implementation
of the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health
Personnel<br>
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<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">WHO invites you to contribute to this public hearing
on the draft Guidelines and kindly requests you to disseminate this call for
contributions among your relevant contacts and networks. <font color="navy"><span style="color:navy"></span></font></span></font></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">The web-based public hearing and the draft Guidelines
can be accessed at <a href="http://bit.ly/eCNlMS" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/eCNlMS</a> </span></font></p>

<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">All persons concerned with the international
recruitment of health personnel are invited to contribute to this web-based
public hearing on the draft Guidelines - Member States, health workers,
recruiters, employers, academic and research institutions, health professional
organizations, and any relevant subregional, regional and international
organizations, whether governmental or nongovernmental.</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></font></p>

<p style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Input received during the course of
this web-based public hearing will contribute to a revised draft of the
Guidelines. Complementary documents concerning the Code are also available for
download from the <a href="http://bit.ly/gPxkxS" target="_blank">HRH website</a>.</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></font></p>

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any of the six official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian
and Spanish). Please note that at this stage, we request that comments should
not focus on the formatting of the documents and we are not expecting any data
to be provided. Please limit contributions to 2000 words. </span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"></span></font></p>

<p style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">These comments can be
submitted by fax (+ 41 22 791 47 47) or by email to:<b><span style="font-weight:bold"> </span></b></span></font><font size="1" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="mailto:Draft_guidelines@who.int" target="_blank"><font color="black"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:black">Draft_guidelines@who.int</span></font></a></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> <br>

</span></font><font size="2" color="black" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Clarification or queries
can be addressed to Department of Human Resources for Health, Health Workforce
Migration and Retention Team <br>
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