African Legal Action Consortium - Consortium Africain d'Action Juridique

Does The Law On Smoking In Public Still Exist?

The reason why public interest litigation should be supported.

Support from the French National Committee for Tobacco Control

This email was sent following a demand for support from Mahamane (in French).

Update on the proposal

As grant writer and coodinator of the project I am writing this assessment on March 19, just before finalizing the phase 2 application. Please keep this information confidential.
It is only posted for the project members and the reviewers of the proposal. It only reflects my personal thinking.

Towards Health With Justice

This report (in a pdf format) was produced after a regional WHO meeting in Amman (Jordan) in 2001.

Objectives

- initiate within a year at least 40 strategic and exemplary lawsuits in Africa : all the briefs and decisions will be made available on line.

Context and rationale

Tobacco Control litigation is underdeveloped in Africa. The few lawsuits filed by SOS Tabagisme and TEAN have demonstrated their effectiveness but such litigation is not financially sustainable (no significant punitive damages and no independent funding).

Initial Proposal

African Legal Action Consortium is a project co-sponsored by SOS-Tabagisme and The Environmental Action Network.

Interview with Phillip Karugaba during the 2002 national tobacco control conference in San Francisco.

Phillip Karugaba is Spokeperson for TEAN, The Environmental Action Network
Kampala, Uganda

Thank you Phillip for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself?

Phillip Karugaba: I am the spokeperson for TEAN, The Environmental Action Network, a public interest group that was created in 2000 in Kampala. I am an attorney with an independent practice and a law professor at Makerere University in Kampala.

Interview with Mahamane Cissé during the World Conference in 2000

This interview of Mahamane Cissé by Philippe Boucher took place August 10, 2000 during the 11th world conference on Tobacco or Health in Chicago.

Phillip Karugaba

Phillip Karugaba is a graduate of Cambridge University, UK. He holds a 1st Class Honors degree-cum laude-in law of Makerere University. Phillip is a leader in commercial and corporate transactions and has over 8 years experience in both the public and private sector. Phillip worked with Mugerwa & Masembe Advocates for four years. Prior to that he worked as in-house Counsel for the Privatisation Unit of the Ministry of Finance of Uganda. Mr Karugaba is a member of the International Bar Association. He is a pioneer in public interest litigation in the field of environmental law. Phillip is also a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Makerere University.
He is a practicing Advocate of High Court of Uganda and Courts subordinate thereto and a member of the Uganda Law Society.

 

A propos de la Côte d'Ivoire

Echange d'emails avec Pascal Bogui le 20 février 2007

About Nigeria

Hello Eze,

I don't know if you recall our  rendez-vous in San Francisco in 2002?

Exchange of emails with

Eze Eluchie (Attorney-at-Law)
Executive Director
People Against Drug Dependence & Ignorance (PADDI)
29, Franklin Road
Ebute Meta (West)
P. O. Box 4085, Surulere
Lagos
Nigeria

Tel: 234-8023237448
234-1-8904064

Website: www.paddi.globalink.org

About Kenya

Article published in Tobacco Control Journal - 2007

"The law was actually drafted by us but the Government is to be congratulated on its wise actions": British American Tobacco and public policy in Kenya

Preeti Patel¹, Jeff Collin² and Anna B Gilmore³

¹ Centre on Global Change and Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
² Centre for International Health Policy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
³ European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

 

Correspondence to: 
Dr Preeti Patel 
Centre on Global Change and Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; preeti.patel@lshtm.ac.uk

A message from Egypt

An except form a message published on Globalink:
There are multiple rules and regulations for selling tobacco to youngsters and smoking in public places but there is no actual enforcement and follow up for the action of the rules

About the situation in Tanzania

Presentation at the World Conference in Washington DC:
Tanzania enacted the anti-smoking law under the “Tobacco Products (regulations) Act 2003”. The law prevents smoking in public places; selling tobacco to persons under 18; tobacco advertising on radio, TV and newspapers and, directs the setting up of special smoking areas at work places. Unfortunately, this law has never been enforced and, people have continued to breach it without being prosecuted.

From Tanzania

Dear Mr Boucher,
 
  Thanks for coming up with this great idea. The Tanzania Tobacco Control Forum (TTCF) would be happy to join forces with other African countries in the fight against tobacco, so yes we are willing to be part of this idea.
 
Cheers,
 
Lutgard Kagaruki
Executive Secretary - Tanzania Tobacco Control Forum

Ross Hammond about Tobacco in Tanzania (1997)

The Tobacco Industry Impacts on Tanzania

by Ross Hammond, San Francisco's Forum On Global Tobacco Control Policies
May 19th, 1997

Email Address Book

Lutgard Kagaruki (Tanzania):   lutgardk@yahoo.com

Eze Eluchie (Attorney-at-Law) (Lagos, Nigeria):  paddingr@yahoo.com

Mahamane Cissé

Curriculum Vitae de Mahamane Cissé

SOS Tabagisme vs Craven A

Jugement du Tribunal de Première Instance de Bamako du 13 avril 2000.

Estimation des frais de procédure

Information transmise par Mahamane