{"id":1729,"date":"2012-12-03T02:50:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T07:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightoncanada.ca\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2012-12-03T02:50:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T07:50:37","slug":"urgent-message-to-world-health-organization-stop-collaborating-with-the-asbestos-lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/?p=1729","title":{"rendered":"Urgent message to World Health Organization: Stop collaborating with the asbestos lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">November 19, 2012<\/span><\/p>\n<address><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Margaret Chan, Director General<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>World Health Organization<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Geneva, Switzerland<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dear Margaret Chan:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We are appalled to learn that a representative of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is apparently scheduled to participate in a conference, Chrysotile Asbestos: Risk Assessment and Management, to be held in Kiev, Ukraine November 21 and 22. We are addressing this urgent matter to you as the international Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is part of the World Health Organisation (WHO).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The conference has been organised by institutes of the Ukraine and Russia. As you know, these institutes were discontinued from the redesignation as WHO collaborating centres by your decision a few years ago, because of their promotion of continued use of chrysotile asbestos and conflicts of interest endangering WHO&#8217;s credibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">These institutes criticize WHO and IARC positions and deny the clear, independent, reputable science regarding harm caused by chrysotile asbestos. We have concerns that these institutes, especially the Russian institute, are <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ibasecretariat.org\/lka-whats-going-on-at-iarc.php\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">trying to use IARC&#8217;s reputation to distort scientific evidence<\/span><\/a><\/span> already established among the world public health community).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We believe that the purpose of this conference is to promote the continued use of chrysotile asbestos. Scientists who have been financed by and linked to the asbestos industry for many years and who promote continued use of chrysotile asbestos will be making presentations at the conference. The aim of this conference is to sabotage the efforts of the World Health Organization to end use of chrysotile asbestos and to sabotage the recommendation of the Rotterdam Convention&#8217;s expert scientific committee to list chrysotile asbestos as a hazardous substance, which will be put forward at the upcoming 2013 Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Recognizing the destructive impact of the global tobacco lobby in subverting the work of the WHO and public health agencies to protect people from being harmed by tobacco products, the WHO and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control forbid the participation of the tobacco industry, participation of government agencies working in conjunction with the tobacco industry, and participation of scientists working with and for the tobacco industry, in meetings concerning health protection against tobacco harm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The WHO rightfully decided it was obliged to adopt this policy forbidding collaboration with the tobacco industry because of the conflict of interest of the tobacco industry and because of the long, sordid history of subversion of public health policy by the tobacco industry and its governmental and scientific allies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The same long, sordid history of subversion of public health policy and the same problem of conflict of interest applies to the asbestos lobby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We call on you to immediately cancel the participation of IARC in this sham scientific conference, which brings together governmental agencies and scientists that collaborate with the asbestos industry and which aims to promote the interests of the asbestos industry and defeat public health efforts around the world to prevent further deaths from asbestos-related diseases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We are also disturbed by the fact that IARC is collaborating with scientists who are the Russian asbestos industry&#8217;s strongest defenders and who deny the independent, reputable science on harm caused by chrysotile asbestos in a study, Historical cohort study of cancer mortality following exposure to chrysotile asbestos at the Uralasbest plant in Asbest, Russian Federation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We would like to know how this study is being funded and whether the IARC Ethics Committee has approved this involvement of IARC. Given the indistinguishability between the government and the asbestos industry in Russia, we believe there is cause for serious concern about associating IARC&#8217;s name with studies that appear to us to be influenced and controlled by the asbestos industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We request your immediate reply on these urgent concerns, which, in our view, put the reputation, integrity and credibility of IARC at risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sincerely,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">FROM:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2022 Dr Domyung Paek, Seoul National University, South Korea<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2022 Dr Richard Lemen, Assistant Surgeon General (Retired), USA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>SIGNED BY:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">KATHLEEN RUFF, Director, RightOnCanada.ca, Canada; Senior Human Rights Adviser, Rideau Institute; recipient National Public Health Hero Award 2011 of the Canadian Public Health Association<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">JAGDISH PATEL, People\u2019s Training &amp; Research Centre, India<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">HONG CHAN, Association for the Rights of Industrial Accident Victims, Hong Kong<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">GOPAL KRISHNA, Convener, Toxic Watch Alliance, New Delhi, India<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ASIAN BAN ASBESTOS NETWORK (ABAN), Coordinator, Sugio Furoya<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">FIONA MURIE, Director, Health Safety &amp; Construction, Building Workers International, Switzerland<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">OLGA SPERANSKAYA, Co-Chair, International POPS Elimination Network (IPEN)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">UGO LAPOINTE, Coalition Pour que le Qu\u00e9bec ait meilleure mine!, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">INTERNATIONAL BAN ASBESTOS SECRETARIAT, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MANVAR RAGHUNATH, Occupational Health &amp; Safety Centre (OHSC), Ahmeldabad, India<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PRAHAD MALVADKAR, Coordinator, Occupational Health &amp; Safety Centre (OHSC), Mumbai, India<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">BOB STEPHENSON, Coordinator, North East Asbestos Support &amp; Advice Group (NASAG), Middlesbrough &amp; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">POINTER BOB, Barrow Trades Union Council, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">BAN ASBESTOS NETWORK JAPAN (BANJAN), Coordinator, Sugio Furoya<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">JOHN McCLEAN, National Health &amp; Safety Officer, General Municipal &amp; Boilermakers Union, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">DENNIS DOODY, National Executive Member, UCATT &#8211; Union of Construction Allied Trades &amp; Technicians, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MICK HOLDER , CMIOSH, FRSPH, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SADHANA PRASAD, MD, FRCP(C), FACP, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ANROEV &#8211; Asian Network For The Rights Of Occupational &amp; Environmental Victims<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">OEHNI &#8211; Occupational &amp; Environmental Health Network Of India<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">TRACEY FORD, AREA FUND &#8211; Asbestos Related Research &amp; Advocacy Fund, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">GUADALUPE AGUILAR MADRID, PhD, Unidad de Investigacian en salud en el Trabajo, Mexico<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">HILDA PALMER, National Secretary, Hazards Campaign, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">FACK &#8211; FAMILIES AGAINST CORPORATE KILLERS, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">LUIS TORRE, Physician-researcher in mesothelioma biology, National Institute of Health, Mexico City<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">AURORA McATHEY, Founding Member, Voices of Asbestos Victims, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">LOUISE VANDELAC, PhD, Professor, Department of Sociology; Director of the Institute of Environmental Sciences, Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec, Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada; Chercheure CINBIOSE et TITNT UQAM et P\u00f4le risques MRSH, Universit\u00e9 de Caen, France<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">UCATT UNION OF CONSTRUCTION ALLIED TRADES &amp; TECHNICIANS, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">HEIDI Von PALLESKE, Founding Member Voices of Asbestos Victims, Coburg, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MADHUMITA DUTTA, Member of Occupational &amp; Environmental Network, India<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MARY DOHERTY, MD, Vancouver, BC, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">JOSETTE WIER, MD, Smithers, BC, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">STACY CATTRAN, Co-Founder &#8211; &#8220;A Walk to Remember Victims of Asbestos&#8221;, Sarnia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">LEAH NIELSON, Co-Founder &#8211; &#8220;A Walk to Remember Victims of Asbestos&#8221;, Sarnia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ASBESTOS DISEASE AWARENESS ORGANISATION, Linda Reinstein, President, USA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">BARRY CASTLEMAN, ScD., Environmental Consultant, USA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">NOEL COLINA, Institute for Occupational Health &amp; safety Development (IOHSAD), Philippines<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MICHAEL LEES, Founder Asbestos Exposure in Schools (AiS), UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">COLIN SOSKOLNE, Professor of Epidemiology, Dept of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Australia; Immediate Past-President, Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Fellow, American College of Epidemiology; Fellow, Collegium Ramazzini, Italy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">FERNAND TURCOTTE, MD., MPH., FRCP(C), Professor Emeritus of Public Health &amp; Preventive Medicine, University of Laval, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">YEYONG CHOI, Director, Asian Citizens Centre for the Environment, South Korea<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">OMANA GEORGE, Asia Monitoring Resource Centre, Hong Kong<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PAUL JOBIN, Associate Professor, University of Paris, Diderot, France<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ARTHUR L. FRANK, MD, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA, USA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PIERRE DESHAIES, MD., MSc., CSPQ., FRCPC., Professeur de clinique, D\u00e9partement de m\u00e9decine sociale et pr\u00e9ventive, Facult\u00e9 de m\u00e9decine, Universit\u00e9 Laval, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">LAURIE KAZAN-ALLEN, Co-ordinator &#8211; International Ban Asbestos Secretariat (IBAS), UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ERIC JONKHERRE, Co-ordinator ABEVA, Belgium<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PIERRE GOSSELIN, MD., MPH.,Professor adjunct de clinique, D\u00e9pt. de M\u00e9d Soc &amp; Pr\u00e9v., Universit\u00e9 Laval, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">TONY BRITLIN, Head of Trade Union Dept. Walker, Smith, Way law firm Chester, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">WHYTE DAVID, Reader in Sociology, University of Liverpool, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">VOICES OF CANADIAN ASBESTOS VICTIMS, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ASIAN CITIZEN&#8217;S CENTRE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">JOHN R. KEYSERLINGK, MD., MSc., FRCS(C)., FACS, Director, Medicine &amp; Surgical Oncology, Ville Marie Oncology Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">HAZARDS CAMPAIGN, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ROBIN RUDD, MD., London Lung Cancer Group, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MAVIS NYE, Member East Kent Cancer Network, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PAUL VANDENBROUKE, Dr., Bruxelles, Belgium<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MARTIN WHITE, Senior Health &amp; Safety Representative, RMT &#8211; Rail, Maritime &amp; Transport Workers Union, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">DOROTHY WIGMORE, MS., Worksafe Inc, Oakland, California, USA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">THAILAND BAN ASBESTOS NETWORK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PRAJAPATT MANUBHAI, Activist, Ahmeldabad, India<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">GUPTA MOHIT, Activist, Delhi, India<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MARK HOSKISSON, Secretary, Liverpool Trades Union Council, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">RICHARD HAFFEY, Mystic Air Consultants, Gorton, USA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MERSEYSIDE ASBESTOS VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP, Liverpool, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ABREA &#8211; BRAZILIAN ASBESTOS EXPOSED PEOPLES ASSOCIATION, Brazil<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">FERNANDO GIANNASI, Engineering Senior Labour Inspector of the Ministry of Labour &amp; Employment, Sao Paulo, Brazil &amp; Coordinator, Virtual Citizen Network Asbestos in Latin America<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">GREATER MANCHESTER HAZARDS CENTRE, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">RORY O&#8217;NEILL, Editor Hazards Magazine, UK; Professor, Occupational &amp; Environmental Health Group, University of Stirling, Scotland<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">JEAN ZIGBY, MD, Family Physician, Palliative Care Specialist; President, Canadian<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Association of Physicians for the Environment, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">JAMES HUFF, PhD., Staff Scientist Chemical Carcinogenesis, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Research, Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SUKI CHUNG, Labour Action Group, China<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">VITHAYA KULSOMBOON, Director of Health &amp; Consumer Protection Programme, Chulalongkom University, Thailand; Coordinator, Thailand Ban Asbestos Network<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ERIC NOTEBAERT, MD, MSc., Associate Professor of Medicine, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al &amp; Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ASBESTOS DISEASE AWARENESS ORGANISATION, USA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">KATHLEEN BURNS, PhD., Director Sciencecorps, Lexington, Mass., USA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">YVONNE R.K.WATERMAN , PhD, LL.M, Waterman Legal Consultancy, The Netherlands<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">DAVID EGILMAN, PhD., MPH., Clinical Professor, Dept of Family Medicine, Brown University; Editor, International Journal of Occupational &amp; Environmental Health, Attleboro, Mass., USA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">HELEN CLAYSON, Dr., Cumbria Asbestos Related Support Group, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MORRIS GREENBERG, MB, FRCP, FFOM, Former HM Medical Inspector of Factories, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">TERRY BRITTON, Bradford Asbestos Support Group, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">YV BONNIER-VIGER, MD, MSc, MM, CMSQ, FRCPC, Medical Specialist in Public Health and Preventive Medicine; Director of the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Qu\u00e9bec; Pr\u00e9sident de l&#8217;Association des m\u00e9decins sp\u00e9cialistes en sant\u00e9 communautaire du Qu\u00e9bec, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">TUSHAR KANT JOSHI , FRCS., FFOM., Director, OEM Programme, Centre for Occupational &amp; Environmental Health, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India; Former Occupational Health Consultant, WHO India; Fellow, Collegium Ramazzini; Visiting Professor, Occupational Health, Drexel University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ANNIE LUK, Asia Monitor Resource Centre, Hong Kong<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">APOLINAR TOLENTINO, Building and Woodworkers International, Malaysia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">JAN DOHERTY, Concerned Citizen, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">BABAJI SWAIN, Orissa Asbestos Union, India<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ELIZEBIUS MASTER, KKNTC (trade union), India<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">LEELAMMA RAVI, KKNTC (trade union), India<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SIU SIN MAN, Association for the Rights of Industrial Accidents Victims, Hong Kong<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ADAM KAMINSKI, Building and Woodworkers International, Asia Pacific<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ALAN TANJUSAY, ALU (Associated Labor Unions), Philippines<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ANUP SRIVASTAVA, Building and Woodworkers International, South Asia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CHAN KAM HONG, ARIAV (Association for the Rights of Industrial Accident Victims), No More Asbestos in Hong Kong Alliance<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">GEOFFREY WHEELER, Center for Vocational Building Technology, Thailand<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">HEUNGKYU LIM, BANKO, Asian Citizens&#8217; Center for Environment and Heath, South Korea<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">JAYABALAN THAMBYAPPA, Consumers Association of Penang (CAP), Malaysia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">JI YOL JUNG, BANKO, Asbestos victim, South Korea<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MOHAMMAD HAMDAN BIN H DORHALLIM, Malaysia Trade Union Congress, (MTUC), Malaysia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MUCHAMAD DARISMAN, Indonesia Ban Asbestos Network (Ina-BAN), Indonesia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">NADIA SANTY DE LEON, Institute for Occupational Health and Safety Development, (IOHSD), Philippines<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PHILLIP HAZELTON, APHEDA, Australia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">RAMIN MEHRADAD, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SANJIV PANDITA, Asia Monitor Resource Centre, Hong Kong<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SUK-KYUN LEE, BANKO, Busan Committee, South Korea<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">TAKEHIKO MURAYAMA, PHD, Waseda University, Japan<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">JEAN VERRAVER, Retired Electrical Engineer, La Hulpe, Belgium<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ASIAN NETWORK FOR THE RIGHTS OF OCCUPATIONAL &amp; ENVIRONMENTAL VICTIMS<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(ANROEV) China Network, China<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">RASMINA PAKPAHAN, Indonesia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ANNIE TH\u00c9BAUD-MONY, PhD, Directeur de recherche honoraire \u00e0 l&#8217;Inserm, (Scientific Research Group on occupational Cancer), Universit\u00e9 Paris 13, Bobigny, France<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">BAN ASBESTOS FRANCE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ASSOCIATION HENRI P\u00c9ZERAT, France<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MARK HINDRY, Prof. University of Paris, Diderot, France<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ANDEVA, Association nationale de defense des Victimes de l\u2019amiante, France<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">GERARD R. SENO, National Executive Vice President and ALAN TANJUSAY, Policy Advocacy &amp; Campaign Officer, ALU-TUCP &#8211; Associated Labour Unions Trades Union Congress, Philippines<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PAT KINNERSLY. Author, \u201cHazards at Work \u2013 How to Fight Them\u201d, Romsey, Hants, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">HARBINDER BAINS, Lawyer, Leigh Day solicitors, London, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">JOHN WOODCOCK, MP, Member of Parliament for Barrow-in-Furness, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MICHAELA KEYSERLINGK, Labelle, Quebec, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">LINDSAY FRASER AM Assistant National Secretary, Construction, Forestry, Mining &amp; Energy Union, Sydney, Australia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SEAN MARSHALL, Industrial Officer, Commonwealth &amp; Public Sector Union, Sydney, Australia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">EDDY SABINO, UNITE union, Construction Branch, Liverpool, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">STEVE TOMBS, Professor of Sociology, Liverpool John Moore\u2019s University, Liverpool, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MARIE HUGHES, Member MAVSG, Merseyside Asbestos Victims Support Group, Wrexham, NorthWales<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">CAROL DAWSON, Macmillan Lung Cancer Specialist, St Helens &amp; Knowsley Hospital Trust, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">VERA RIGBY, Member GMAVSG, Greater Manchester Asbestos Victims Support Group, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ASBESTOS SUPPORT WEST MIDLANDS, Birmingham, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SASKATCHEWAN ASBESTOS DISEASE AWARENESS ORGANISATION, Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">DERBYSHIRE ASBESTOS SUPPORT TEAM, Chesterfield, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ASBESTOS VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUPS FORUM, Great Britain<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SARAG \u2013 SOUTH YORKSHIRE ASBESTOS VICTIMS SUPPORT GROUP, Rotherham, UK<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>NOTE: Titles and affiliations are given for identification purposes only.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Copies to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr Christopher Wild, IARC Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Eduardo Seleiro, IARC Ethics Committee<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dr. Abha Saxena, WHO Research Ethics<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 19, 2012 Margaret Chan, Director General World Health Organization Geneva, Switzerland &nbsp; Dear Margaret Chan: We are appalled to learn that a representative of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is apparently scheduled to participate in a conference, Chrysotile Asbestos: Risk Assessment and Management, to be held in Kiev, Ukraine November 21 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[147,187,19,188,38],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asbestos","category-uncategorized","tag-asbestos-lobby","tag-international-agency-for-research-on-cancer","tag-rotterdam-convention","tag-russia","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1747,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}