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Photo Credits (top to bottom)
-Primary education project of the Bangladesh Federation of University
women
- Graphic Artwork by Brazilian artist Octavio Roth - Article 1 of the
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights - See Thirty
Articles (© Octavio Roth - (UN/DPI Photo)
- "Displaced Persons: Mother and Child in the Dafur Region of the
Sudans" (© Eskinder Debebe - UN/DPI Photo)
- From Aftershocks:
Art and Memoirs by Young People Growing Up after War and Terror, exhibit
of the United Nations Cyberschool Bus Project, ©
painting by Una Dorbrinic
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TOBACCO AND HEALTH
Resolution
Action Plan
Follow-up
The 26th IFUW Conference in Graz adopted a resolution on Tobacco and Health urging national federations and associations: (NFAs)
- to campaign in their own countries for appropriate legislation and regulations dealing with tobacco products and the dangers of smoking; and
- to urge all levels of governments to develop and implement strategies to decrease use of tobacco products.
Action Plan It is recommended that NFAs
- urge their governments to address the economic and health costs of smoking with reference to packaging and labelling requirements detailing health hazards and regulation of product content; and also urge governments to provide information about the effects of tobacco as a major cause of illness, disability and premature death.
support measures to help youth and women resist the impact of tobacco advertising and urge governments to develop public health programmes, restrict access by minors to tobacco products and undertake prenatal and postnatal initiatives to educate pregnant women and their partners about the dangers of tobacco smoke to the foetus and to children.
encourage development of partner support groups, recovery programs.
urge the development of spiral education programmes so tobacco education is reinforced at various stages of schooling. In support of this to campaign for a ban on smoking in all enclosed government public and work areas, including schools and school properties, licensed day care facilities and hospitals.
support programmes by health care professionals emphasizing the addictive nature of tobacco use and to urge governments to limit promotional activities and introduce comprehensive restrictions on advertising.
- campaign for reporting of user information and sales data by marketers, distributors and importers to the Ministry responsible for Health.
FOLLOW-UP NFAs and members working to implement this resolution will be interested in the report of IFUW's representative to the 11th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health, held in Chicago (USA) from 6-11 August 2000. It provides some ideas of the role that NGOs like IFUW can play.
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