The Conference Blog

Bienvenue sur le blog de la conférence

Pendant que vous participez à la conférence ou même dès à présent lorsque vous préparez votre départ, vous pouvez avoir envie de partager vos réflexions sur les questions que vous inspire cette réunion internationale, nous raconter ce qui se discute ou pas, comment telle ou telle délégation s'est comportée, cette histoire entendue d'un(e) ami(e), vos sentiments sur ce qui se passe, etc.
Il vous suffit d'un email pour me contacter et devenir un co-auteur de ce blog: je vous enverrai immédiatement l'information pour que vous soyez enregistré(e) et que vous puissiez commencer à rédiger.

Faites un essai. Partagez avec nous votre expérience de cette conférence.

Merci d'avance de votre contribution.

Philippe

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FCA Bulletin -- start writing, start taking pictures now

This is a message from Francis Thompson.

Hello FCA members,

As you know, the second FCTC Conference of the Parties (COP) is fast approaching. That means it's time to start thinking about what contribution you are going to make to the FCA Bulletin this time round.

The COP is a unique opportunity to reach most of the governments in the world: for seven long days, we will have hundreds of officials who work on tobacco issues as a captive audience.

In Memoriam: Judith Wilkenfeld.

Judith who died on May 24 was Vice President for International Affairs for the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids.  She played a major role in the negociation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.  Beyond her obituary from the Washington Post we have included a podcast recorded during the World Conference for Cancer Organizations in Dublin, in November 2004, where she explains the FCTC and all the advocacy work she helped organize. LISTEN  (9 min)

Podcasting and webcasting at the conference? Sponsors are needed.

During the 2006 World Conference in Washington DC GLOBALink Radio produced daily podcasts of participants that you can still access today.

We wished we could do the same in Bangkok and record more tobacco control voices but we are short of money.

Invest $30 and become a radio reporter

If you want to try recording interviews it is easy (and relatively cheap):
the MP3 recorder pictured here costs  less than$30 and you just have to click two buttons to make it work (and install one battery). You can also use an Ipod (eventually adding an external microphone).

Why this blog?

Visiting the pandemic flu blog gave me the impetus to create a blog for COP2.

I thought it would be a good idea to have participants share their comments on line about what is happening so that the wider, global community can feel/be involved.

Until now the tobacco control community has not been using very much the web2.0 tools, including blogs. Maybe this conference can be an opportunity to introduce more people to blogging.

INDEX of the notes posted

• Highlights of the FCTC COP2

• All the articles published in the Alliance Bulletins during COP2

• Tobacco pack warnings Vietnam has yet to get it right!

• Packaging galore in Malaysia

• Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco love Thais more than Filipinos

• L’industrie du tabac aura de beaux jours au Sénégal si…..

• Recrudescence de la publicité sur le tabac au Cameroun

• More articles from the Alliance Bulletins

• México cancela total y definitivamente su acuerdo con la industria tabacalera

• Con una de cal y otra de arena, avanza Panamá en la implementación del CMCT

• Alliance Bulletin COP2 Day 6, issue #71 for Friday July 6

• Le dernier jour de la COP 2

• FCA briefing: Gender and tobacco

• Rendez Vous en Afrique du Sud pour la COP 3

• Alliance Bulletin COP2 Day 5 (issue #70) for Thursday July 5

• COP3: Cap vers l'AFRIQUE!

• Consensus on combating illicit trade and banning tobacco advertising and sponsorship

• Du Sucre et du piment!

• Consultations régionales AFRO: mi parcours

• Litigation- the sleeping giant of tobacco control

• A Gender Perspective on Reporting and Exchange of Information

• COP2 delegates seek adoption of laws to back smokefree laws

• Initiative de Bloomberg: pensez à l'Afrique

• ¿Cómo se logró que Uruguay cambiara tanto?

• Alliance Bulletin COP2 Day 4 (issue #69)  for Wednesday July 4

• Parties Approve Article 8 Smokefree Guidelines

• Recomendada Adopcao Da Directivas Sobre Proteccao Contra Fumo Ambiental Do Tabaco (FAT)

• Introducing picture based health warnings on cigarette packages in the Caribbean.

• World Customs Organization backs call for Protocol on Illicit Trade

• Alliance Bulletin COP2 Day 3 (issue #68) for Tuesday July 3

• Our voices have been heard: Article 8 guidelines approved

• Loin de Bangkok, Libération s'intéresse au tabagisme en Chine

• Illicit Tobacco Trade: Africa Must Unite

• Alliance Bulletin COP2 Day 2 (issue # 67 ) for Monday

• Fighting Big Tobacco: Nigeria sets the pace

• Monday in a Nutshell

• 2A Reuniao Da Conferencia Das Partes A Convenção Quadro Para Controle Do Tabaco

• Discusión de la Región AMRO con respecto a las Directrices para la Implementación del Artículo 8

• Introducing Blogger Ami

• Adopt the Article 8 Guidelines for Protection from Tobacco Smoke

• Le Cameroun: un paradis pour la British American Tobacco?

• Alliance Bulletin #66 includes first Dirty Ashtray and Orchid Awards

• Video:Death Clock Unveiled at FCTC 2nd Conference of the Parties

• Death clock unveiled-Over 33 million tobacco deaths since start of FCTC talks

• FCTC 2nd Conference of the Parties begins

• NGO forum- 'Bringing FCTC to Life'

• In Bangkok, at last

• Ouverture de COP2

• FCTC COP2, Bangkok- What’s on the agenda?

• From Lubumbashi to Bangkok via Nairobi

• Empêcher l'installation d'Imperial Tobacco à Maurice

• The long road from Nigeria to Bangkok

• Patrick Musavuli

• Introducing Blogger Jackie Tumwine

• Introducing Blogger Catherine

• Introducing Blogger Beatriz

• Welcome to the Conference Blog

• How to become a co-author of this blog

• Bienvenue sur le blog de la conférence

• How to receive automatically the latest postings into your mail box

• FCA Bulletin -- start writing, start taking pictures now

• In Memoriam: Judith Wilkenfeld.

• Podcasting and webcasting at the conference? Sponsors are needed.

• Invest $30 and become a radio reporter

• Why this blog?

• INDEX of the notes posted

• Olayinka Oyegbile

• Beatriz Champagne

Olayinka Oyegbile

My name is Olayinka Oyegbile. I am a journalist/writer based in Lagos Nigeria.
I have practised as a journalist for almost two decades and in those years I have won several national and international awards.
I got involved in tobacco control about five or so years ago and will be attending COP2 full of expectations that it would further strengthen my knowledge about tobacco control.

Beatriz Champagne

Beatriz is Executive Director of the InterAmerican Heart Foundation, an organization dedicated to reducing disability and death from heart diseases and stroke in the Americas.

She helped organize the CARMELA Study of 7 Latin American cities to evaluate risk factors of heart disease and redirected her organization towards advocacy particularly to support ratification and strongest possible implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.