The blog of Jackie Tumwine

Planned World Cancer Day activities in Africa

Cameroon
- The Solidarity Chemotherapy Association (SOCHIMIO) will organize a session of information and education on childhood cancer in its Centre for Counselling, Information and Education (CEIEC) in Yaoundé. It also hopes to organize a TV roundtable on the management of cancers in Cameroon.

Rendez-vous with Jackie Tumwine

Thank you Jackie for taking the time to be with us.
May I ask you to introduce yourself by telling us a little about your personal background (education, professional experience) and when, how and why you got involved in tobacco control?

Jackie Tumwine: My name is Jackie Tumwine, I am a Ugandan lawyer with a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB) from Makerere University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice. I have recently earned a Diplôme de Langue Française (DL) from Alliance Française.

Thank you Jackie for taking the time to be with us.
May I ask you to introduce yourself by telling us a little about your personal background (education, professional experience) and when, how and why you got involved in tobacco control?

Jackie Tumwine: My name is Jackie Tumwine, I am a Ugandan lawyer with a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB) from Makerere University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice. I have recently earned a Diplôme de Langue Française (DL) from Alliance Française.

About GLOBALink Africa

GLOBALink Africa is a project of GLOBALink sponsored by the Norwegian Cancer Society in collaboration with the Framework Convention Alliance: it aims to support a robust tobacco control community in Africa by developing the use of internet based tools like blogs.

1st African Conference on Tobacco or Health- lessons and resolutions

So what happened in Casablanca?

A question on the lips of many African tobacco control advocates who missed this first African Conference on Tobacco or Health held in Casablanca, Morocco, 7-10 December, 2006.

University Scholarships latest in BAT Rwanda CSR stunt

BAT Rwanda has done it again. Last November it was a donation of computers to a secondary school, and now, barely two months later, Rwanda’s New Times newspaper has reported a new scholarship scheme set up by BAT Rwanda to assist needy students at the National University of Rwanda (NUR).

INDEX

• Public smoking banned in Nairobi, Mombasa and Nakuru

• Kenya-Tobacco Bill moves to Committee Stage

• Egypt bans public smoking

• Sensitisation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in Gambia

• Rwanda health ministry vows to ban tobacco advertising

• South Africa: Smoking ban curbs absenteeism

• Highlights of the FCTC COP2

• FCA briefing: Gender and tobacco

• A Gender Perspective on Reporting and Exchange of Information

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

• Litigation- the sleeping giant of tobacco control

• Parties Approve Article 8 Smokefree Guidelines

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

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

• NGO forum- 'Bringing FCTC to Life'

• FCTC 2nd Conference of the Parties begins

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

• Uganda ratifies the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

• Gambia -Editorial: Tobacco and Human Health

• Tunisia: Anti-Tobacco Awareness Campaign Launched

• Malawi- Time for government to regulate smoking

• Tanzania- Enforcement of smokefree law in the offing

• Botswana needs smokefree environments- Health Minister

• Ghana- Students Want Tobacco Bill Passed Without Delay

• Ghana's 3 Poorest Regions Lead in Cigarette Smoking

• Tobacco smokes life out of Uganda's West Nile peasants

• It is time to go 100% smokefree

• Uganda Government Urged to Increase Tobacco Taxes

• Nigeria Tobacco Lawsuit Update

• Nakuru, Kenya Smokeban-Toilets Jampacked With Smokers

• Tobacco Growing Causes Poverty, says Uganda Vice President

• Kenyan town- Nakuru bans public smoking

• Nigeria: Court orders Service on Tobacco Firms in $21bn tobacco suit

• Tanzania Ratifies the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

• Uganda Cabinet Approves Ratification of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

• McGruder honored for tobacco control work in West Africa

• Cameroon: British American Tobacco gives out University Scholarships

• Join the Global Smokefree Partnership Campaign: Global Voices for a Smokefree World

• African parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control plan treaty implementation

• South Africa Adopts Stronger Tobacco Legislation

• Does tobacco empower the African woman?

• South African Parliament begins deliberations on Tobacco Bill

• Tanzania voices support for tobacco crop alternatives

• Coming up: FCTC Public Hearing on tobacco crop alternatives

• Amending South Africa’s Tobacco Control Law

• Zambia hikes tobacco taxes.

• Large, graphic cigarette warnings work

• Congo Ratifies the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

• Tanzania Parliament Votes to Ratify the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

• Planned World Cancer Day activities in Africa

• "Today's Children. Tomorrow's World."

• France joins smokefree Europe. How smokefree is Africa?

• Rendez-vous with Jackie Tumwine

• 1st African Conference on Tobacco or Health- lessons and resolutions

• University Scholarships latest in BAT Rwanda CSR stunt

• Tobacco Control and the New WHO Director-General

• Coming up-the 1st African Conference on Tobacco or Health (ACTH)

• Contact

• About Jackie and HERO-Uganda

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• Why this blog?

• Highlights of the 13th World Conference on Tobacco or Health

• AFRICA- A Target of The Tobacco Industry

• International Women's Day -Tobacco & Women's Rights Violation

• Uganda-Local Council Chief Arrested Over Smoking

• Its Been Two Years- Uganda Must Ratify the FCTC

• Smoke-free Uruguay -Congratulations!

• What do FCTC COP1 decisions mean to Africa?

Tobacco Control and the New WHO Director-General

‘ We will scale up efforts to control tobacco, including full implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’  

That was the pledge made by Dr. Margaret Chan, the WHO Director-General elect in her acceptance speech on 9th November, 2006. Dr. Chan beat 12 other candidates to the post, including Dr. Julio Frenk, the Mexican Health Minister who entered into a controversial agreement with the tobacco industry in 2004.

Contact

You can send your comments and/questions via email

or to this Snail mail address:

HERO-UGANDA
PO BOX 25304,
Kampala, Uganda
East Africa

About Jackie and HERO-Uganda

Who is Jackie Tumwine?
What is HERO-UGANDA?  

Jackie Tumwine is a lawyer and tobacco control advocate. She is the founder and Executive Director of Health and Environmental Rights Organisation (HERO-Uganda)-an NGO active in tobacco control in Uganda. Jackie’s research interests include tobacco and human rights, tobacco and children, smoke-free legislation, media advocacy and tobacco control policy. Jackie has participated in several national and international conferences and workshops including presenting a paper at the just concluded 13th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, July 2006, Washington DC.

Health and Environmental Rights Organisation is a Non-Governmental Organization whose aim is to protect and promote the right to health and the right to a clean and healthy environment through research, advocacy and sensitization. HERO-UGANDA’s current tobacco control activities include media advocacy for the ratification the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, for enforcement of smoke free public places, stronger warning labels and introduction of ad bans. Through its media advocacy initiatives, HERO-UGANDA adds tobacco control to the agenda of international days e.g. International Human Rights Day, Women’s’ day etc.

As a member of the Framework Convention Alliance (FCA), HERO-UGANDA was present at the first Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), Geneva, 2006. HERO-UGANDA is also a member of Globalink, Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control (GPTC), Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnationals (NATT) and the Uganda Tobacco or Health Forum.

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Why this blog?

Welcome to my weblog.  

I started this blog because I wanted to write about issues that concern me and that impact the world- tobacco control issues. This blog allows me to easily share and update information on tobacco control news and events as well as highlight underlying policy issues that need to be addressed in order to reduce the devastating toll on health and death caused by tobacco consumption. Being from Uganda, my posts will tend to lean towards my country and continent.