Migrants are increasingly subject to violence and discrimination, from prolonged detention to ill-treatment from authorities, in countries of both destination and transit, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants said today.

Jorge Bustamante told the General Assembly’s third committee (social, humanitarian and cultural issues) that his field visits during the past year have confirmed the rising attacks and other pressures that migrants are enduring.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE
AI Index: POL 30/023/2007
4 October 2007

Doctors and nurses should not participate in executions ordered by the state in breach of their ethical oath, said Amnesty International in a new report today.

The report, Execution by lethal injection – a quarter century of state poisoning looks at the legal and ethical implications of the use of the lethal injection across the world.

Social, Economic and Behavioural Research. Special Topics No.6, 2007

Paul Hunt with the assistance of Rébecca Steward, Judith Bueno de Mesquita and Lisa Oldring

Available online as PDF file [64p.] at: http://www.who.int/tdr/publications/publications/pdf/seb_topic6.pdf

“…..For the purpose of this report, neglected diseases are those diseases understood to be primarily affecting people living in poverty in developing countries, in particular in rural areas.

On the 8th June, the BMA launched its Right to Health Toolkit. This provides health professionals, in both developed and developing countries, with guidance on how to promote human rights in their everyday practice.

 

"The right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health is a fundamental human right, protected by international law. This toolkit lays out what this right means for health professionals and their associations. Although the right to health is legally grounded, this toolkit is not about the law. It shows the practical meaning and significance of the right to health in the day-to-day work of health professionals and their associations. It gives concrete examples based on current health practice."

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Tuesday 10th July 5.00 pm
Professor Graham Scambler
Professor of Medical Sociology, Department of Medicine, UCL
‘Sex Work Stigma as a Health Barrier’
The stigma attached to sex work is ubiquitous, although always a mix of the global and the local, and always embedded in political and social structures (themselves a mix of the global and the local). The capacity of sex work stigma to enhance the vulnerability of female sex workers (FSW) and their clients to disease, to impede their ‘rights’ and to undermine health interventions is well documented. In this paper a lapsed sociological distinction between stigma and deviance is re-presented, and a novel conceptual apparatus comprising notions of felt, enacted and projected stigma and deviance presented. The explanatory potential of this conceptual frame is illustrated empirically and a typology of sex work careers developed. Reference is made in this paper to the author’s own study of migrant FSW from Eastern Europe working in central London, and to the published research of colleagues on FSW in both developed and developing societies.

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This seminar will be held at UCL

A comprehensive archive of public seminars is available online on the website of the International Institute for Society and Health of University College, London. The seminars cover a broad range of topics which Alma Mata members will find interesting and useful.

Topics have included:

Risk, Resilience and Social Integration
Conflict Medicine: A Neglected Challenge
Social Inequalities in Health - New Evidence and Policy Implications

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A one-day interdisciplinary conference on international health worker migration

Keele University , UK

Call for papers: Please submit relevant abstracts by 22nd June.
The 'brain drain' of skilled labour from poor to rich countries particularly in the healthcare professions continues apace, threatening health, human rights and development goals for the world's poor. The international migration of health workers is induced by and reinforces gross global inequalities that are characteristic of globalisation. They challenge notions that justice, health systems and justice within health systems are areas of only domestic concern. Against this backdrop, this conference is interested in understanding the 'brain drain' of health workers and its impact on global health as matters of justice.

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The Congresses of ABRASCO, IAHP and ALAMES represent a special opportunity for reflection on these and other relevant themes for researchers, health professionals and civil society. The proposal is:
1. To update the discussion about the addition of Human and Social Sciences paradigms into the Public Health area, including its practices and theoretical development;
2. To create conditions to interact with the sanitary movement in Latin America and countries in Europe, Africa and Caribbean seeking to strength knowledge networks and policies action experiences favorable to the Public and Universal Health Services;

Location:
Salvador Bahia, Brazil

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This day meeting aims to examine the question of migration and health particularly from a UK perspective and to identify opportunities and challenges in research, policy and service provision for migrant communities.
Topics include:
Migration and health – why does it matter?
Migrant communities in the UK: Current patterns and issues
Migration and health services in the UK- problems and prospects
The health of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK
Migration and communicable disease in the UK
The mental health of migrants in the UK
Learning from migration- the HIV VCT project
The way forward: setting an agenda, building a network
Essay prize presentation, “Does ethnicity in health matter”

Location:
The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street London, W1G 0AE

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21st–31st MARCH : 11am -6pm (closed Sun 25th March)
Exhibition
Gandhi, King, Ikeda: Building Peace without Violence
What is the Power of One Person to Change the World?
Oxford Town Hall St. Aldates Oxford
All the events are free and subject to availability.
To be sure of a place please pre-book on email or phone line:
T: 0798 275 6381
E: Email Peacebuilders
Already shown in 80 locations on six continents, this fascinating exhibition’s themes are inspired by three peacebuilders from different places and faiths. Visited by more than 350,000 people across six continents, this will be the first time it has been seen in Oxfordshire.

Location:
Oxford Town Hall St. Aldates Oxford