Events
Forthcoming conferences, courses and other meetings
- 16 – 20 January 2012
Human Rights Training for Health Professional Educators: Train the Trainer Course in Health and Human Rights - Cape Town, South Africa
Organiser: Health and Human Rights programme, University of Cape Town
- 23 January - 1 February 2012
International Post Graduate Course on Health and Human Rights - Mumbai, India
Organiser: CEHAT
- 18 - 29 June 2012
Summerschool on Health Law and Ethics - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Organiser: The Erasmus Observatory on Health Law
- July 2012
Third People’s Health Assembly - Cape Town, South Africa
Organiser: People's Health Movement
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August - December 2012
Human Rights Advocates Program - New York, USA
Organiser: Institute for the Study of Human Rights
IFHHRO Events
2011
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21 - 25 November 2011
Global Training of Trainers: Developing Human Rights Training Courses for Health Workers - Utrecht, the Netherlands -
6 October 2011
Workshop: Rapportage procedures van VN mensenrechtenverdragen en de rol van maatschappelijke organisaties - Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Organisers: WEMOS, NVMP, Dokters van de Wereld, Stichting Johannes Wier, IFHHRO -
9 - 11 February 2011
IFHHRO Regional Training on health and human rights - Tbilisi, Georgia -
20 - 21 January 2011
Workshop 'Pain Treatment as human right' - De Bilt, The Netherlands
2010
- 28 November - 4 December 2010
Salzburg Seminar on forced and coerced sterilization - Salzburg, Austria
[ Co-organised by IFHHRO ]
- 5 November 2010
Roundtable Conference 'The medical community's role in stopping human rights abuses in healthcare settings' - London, UK
2009
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27-30 October 2009
Meeting Health as a Bridge to Peace in the Middle East - Kusadasi, Turkey
Organisers: IFHHRO, Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, Norwegian and Turkish Medical Associations & World Medical Association [ Meeting co-organised by IFHHRO ] -
14-18 September 2009
Global Training of Trainers: Developing Health and Human Rights Training Courses for Health Workers - De Bilt, the Netherlands
Report -
23 April 2009
Seminar Combating sexual violence and HIV/AIDS in South Africa; legal and medical perspectives -
31 January 2009
One-day symposium on the Right to Health - Utrecht, the Netherlands
Organisers: IFHHRO, IFMSA (International Federation of Medical Students' Associations) and Urios (Study Association for International and European Law)
2008
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9-13 December 2008
IFHHRO Regional Training on Monitoring the Right to Health - Managua, Nicaragua -
6-11 December 2008
IFHHRO Regional Training on Monitoring the Right to Health - Kampala, Uganda -
25-27 September 2008
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health: Looking Back and Moving Forward - London, UK
2007
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8-12 December 2007
Monitoring the Right to Health in Asia, IFHHRO regional training course - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -
27 November - 1 December 2007
Monitoring the Right to Health in Latin America, IFHHRO regional training course - Lima, Peru -
24-26 October 2007
- The Right to Health and Equitable Healthcare Systems, IFHHRO Annual Conference 2007 - Harare, Zimbabwe -
3-10 February 2007
Monitoring the Right to Health and the Role of Health Professionals in Africa - Regional training and networking meeting - Kampala, Uganda
2006
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1-3 December 2006
Monitoring the Right to Health in Asia: Towards a (sub)regional network, first regional IFHHRO networking meeting in Asia - Mumbai, India -
11-13 October 2006
Exclusion and the Right to Health: The Role of Health Professionals, IFHHRO annual conference - Lima, Peru

A South African cardiologist, Wouter Basson, is facing charges of violating medical ethics for running the Apartheid government's chemical and biological warfare programme. He was interviewed recently after a Health Professions Council Disciplinary hearing, claiming that the hearing is politicallty motivated.
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