Announcements
Call for applications: 8th Orientation Workshop on “Maternal and Newborn Health Programming”
Geneva, Switzerland, 29 November to 3 December 2010 Call for applications The Workshop is part of a series of capacity-building workshops organized by the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (MCH) on a regular basis. The course objectives are to familiarize participants with WHO guidance on interventions and related health system issues for [...]
International Conference on Right to Health: the Case of Pharmaceutical Transnational Corporations
The Center for the Study of Violence (NEV/USP) would like to invite researchers, professors, students, NGOs, human rights activists and the general public to take part in this forum of discussion, which is going to take place on August 30th and 31st of 2010. In this website, you will be able to register for the event, [...]
International Roundtable on Maternal mortality, human rights and accountability, 2nd September 2010, Geneva
Mary Robinson(former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights), US Ambassador Donahoe and Dr. Francisco Songane (former Minister of Health, Mozambique) will make keynote addresses. Other maternal health and human rights experts, from all regions of the world, will also deliver presentations. Increasingly, maternal mortality is being recognised as a global human rights [...]
First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR) – Science to Accelerate Universal Health Coverage
The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners are pleased to announce the First Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR) - Science to Accelerate Universal Health Coverage. Researchers, policy-makers, funders, and other stakeholders representing diverse constituencies will gather in Montreux, Switzerland to share evidence, identify significant knowledge gaps, and set a research agenda that reflects the [...]
Child in the City: 5th European Conference
The 2010 Child in the City Conference will take place in Florence, Italy from 27 to 29 October. The conference is organised on a bi-annual basis by the European Network Child Friendly Cities and the Child in the City Foundation. It is taking place for the first time in southern Europe, after previous venues in [...]
World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, 21–24 September 2010
Every two years, WHO co-sponsors the World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion. Considered the major scientific platform for furthering knowledge on violence and injuries, the World Conference draws around 1,200 of the world’s leading researchers, practitioners and advocates from more than 130 countries. The event is hosted and organized by Liverpool John Moores [...]
XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010)
The biennial International AIDS Conference being held in Vienna, Austria from 18–23 July 2010, brings together some 25 000 scientists, government representatives, health workers, activists, business leaders, and people with HIV and AIDS. The theme of AIDS 2010, “Rights here, right now” emphasizes that promoting and protecting human rights is needed for a successful response [...]
Childhoods Conference Call for Papers
Mapping the Landscapes of Childhood Venue: University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada Date: Thursday, May 5 – Saturday, May 7, 2011 This multidisciplinary conference will engage scholars and practitioners from a wide variety of academic disciplines (including the sciences, arts, humanities, social sciences, policy studies, and education) in a consideration of the state of child [...]
WorldForum 2010, A World Fit for Children: Advancing the Global Movement
International delegates and child welfare experts will gather at the IBM Learning Center in Palisades, New York this November 8 to 11 for WorldForum 2010, the 21st annual summit of the International Forum for Child Welfare (IFCW). This year’s theme, A World Fit for Children: Advancing the Global Movement, sets the stage for 500 delegates from 40 [...]
The Southern Cone Initiative on Child Rights and Health is holding a 3-day meeting in Uruguay from 28-30 May 2010
The Southern Cone Initiative on Child Rights and Health, composed of Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia and Paraguay, will update the work done by the 5 countries for the last …. years on CRED-PRO in the region. The Initiative will also work on developing two additional CRED-PRO modules for the region: one on child participation, and [...]