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FCTC Art.19 expert Daniel Dorado, Corporate Accountability International Daniel Dorado a senior technical expert on WHO FCTC Article 19 delivering his intervention at the seventh Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization (7th COP to WHO FCTC) in India: 7th November 2016. Click here to listen or download this podcast in Spanish . Daniel is part of the Corporate Accountability International team onsite.  He spoke in Spanish. He hails from Columbia and lives in Ecuador. His work is also a living tribute to the invaluable legacy he holds close to his heart: he is the son of tireless human rights crusader and tobacco control leader Yul Francisco Dorado from Columbia. Yul was Latin America Director of Corporate Accountability International.

Shobha Shukla, Citizen News Service - CNS [ Read presentation of Prof Jeff Collin ] Governments of over 180 countries that have ratified the global tobacco treaty had met recently earlier this month and adopted and advanced strong measures to stop tobacco industry interference in health policy and also to hold tobacco industry liable.The meeting formally called the Seventh Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) concluded with commendable progress on WHO FCTC Articles 5.3 and 19 (liability). In this context, I find it pertinent to share some of the learnings from the 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health that was held in Liverpool last month. Reality check on policy coherence Dr Jeff Collin , Professor of Global Health Policy at the University of Edinburgh, gave some interesting insights by exploring the dark nexus between industry and public health policies; and raised the issue of tackling conflict of interes...

With a week left for inter-governmental meeting of global tobacco treaty (formally called World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control or WHO FCTC), more than 120 civil society organisations from India and several other nations globally have endorsed a letter calling upon the governments (that are Parties to the WHO FCTC) to act against the tobacco industry interference in FCTC. We are reproducing this letter below: “ Dated: 1st November 2016 To The Parties to the WHO FCTC Cc: Dr. Vera Luiza Da Costa e Silva, Framework Convention Secretariat JP Nadda, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Government of India Amal Pusp, Director of National Tobacco Control Programme Dear Parties to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC): As civil society organizations concerned with public health, we write to express our concern over tobacco industry interference in the meetings of the WHO FCTC and its subsidiary bodies. In advance o...

Aarti Dhar, CNS Correspondent, India [First published in India Saga on 20th October 2016] Representatives of close to 179 countries will meet next month for the seventh session of the Conference of the Parties of the global tobacco treaty to take some of the most powerful steps in tobacco control since the World Health Organization treaty’s adoption. At the Conference, to be held at Greater Noida near India’s National Capital New Delhi from November 7 to 12, countries will advance a provision to hold the tobacco industry civilly and criminally liable for its abuses. The governments will also advance policies to exclude the industry from public health policy making at the international and national levels. This comes in the wake of revelations, earlier this year, about British American Tobacco (BAT) Company’s widespread allegations of bribery to civil servants and policy makers in East Africa to undermine public health policies. Litigation against Big Tobacco has compelled the industr...

This is the audio recording of an exclusive webinar on 4th October 2016 on a critically important issue of: tobacco industry interference in the global tobacco treaty (formally called WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control or FCTC). Click here to listen to this audio podcast . Thanks.

[ Watch webinar recording ] [ Listen to audio podcast ] We welcome you to register for an exclusive media webinar on the critically important issue of: t obacco industry interference in the global tobacco treaty (formally called WHO Frame w ork Convention on Tobacco Control or FCTC).  [ Watch webinar recording ] [ Lis ten t o podcast ] S eventh Session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO FCTC will be taking place in Gre ater Noida , India during 7-12 November 2016.  Tobac co industry interferen ce in health p olic y making is not new . Despite adoption of WHO FCTC Article 5. 3 G uidelines by our governments in November 2008 , the first Guid ing Principles of which is : " There is a fundamental and irreconcilable conflict between the tobacco industry ' s interests and public health policy interests", tobacco industry continues to find deceptive and insidious ways to water down or delay or jeopardize health policy making.  Panel of e xpe rts on this webinar w...