IFHHRO Regional Meeting, Kampala 2007
Monitoring the Right to Health and the Role of Health Professionals in Africa
In February 2007, IFHHRO member AGHA organized a regional training and networking meeting in Kampala, Uganda. AGHA, acronym for Action Group for Health, Human Rights, and HIV/AIDS, is a Ugandan NGO which became a member of IFHHRO in 2005. The first part of the meeting, entitled 'Monitoring the Right to Health and the Role of Health Professionals in Africa: A regional training course in health and human rights' took place from 3-7 February. Immediately following this meeting, from 8-10 February, a networking conference took place, entitled 'Monitoring the Right to Health and the Role of Health Professionals in Africa: Extending networks, creating changes'.
The goal of the meeting was to work towards the establishment of a regional network for monitoring the Right to Health in Africa and to strengthen the monitoring activities of participating organisations. The meeting was a follow-up to a training and networking meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, in May 2006. During the networking part of that meeting, strategies were developed for establishing an effective African regional network.
More than 1,600 Palestinian prisoners have agreed to end their hunger strike in exchange for concessions by Israel, including a modification to its practice of detention without charge or trial. 
As of June 1st 2012, the IFHHRO International Secretariat in Utrecht, the Netherlands, will be closed. The secretarial work of IFHHRO will continue with less capacity and with volunteers.
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