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[Podcast in Spanish] Why WHO FCTC Articles 5.3 and 19 are so centrally important to implementation of global tobacco treaty

FCTC Art.19 expert Daniel Dorado,
Corporate Accountability International

Daniel Dorado a senior technical expert on WHO FCTC Article 19 delivering his intervention at the seventh Conference of the Parties to the World Health Organization (7th COP to WHO FCTC) in India: 7th November 2016. Click here to listen or download this podcast in Spanish.

Over 120 organisations call upon governments to protect WHO FCTC from tobacco industry interference

With a week left for inter-governmental meeting of global tobacco treaty (formally called World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control or WHO FCTC), more than 120 civil society organisations from India and several other nations globally have endorsed a letter calling upon the governments (that are Parties to the WHO FCTC) to act against the tobacco industry interference in FCTC. We are reproducing this letter below:

Organized interference by tobacco industry in health issues brings death

Francis Okoye, CNS Correspondent, Nigeria
Tobacco industry all over the world, is bringing death through its interference in health policies. Panelists at a webinar, recently organised by Citizen News Service on tobacco industry interference in WHO framework convention on tobacco control (FCTC), said that tobacco industries have hijacked political and legislative processes, exaggerated the economic importance of tobacco industry, and manipulated public opinion to gain an appearance of respectability.

[Podcast] Tobacco industry interference in WHO FCTC


This is the audio recording of an exclusive webinar on 4th October 2016 on a critically important issue of: tobacco industry interference in the global tobacco treaty (formally called WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control or FCTC). Click here to listen to this audio podcast. Thanks.

[Webinar] Tobacco industry interference in the WHO FCTC



[Call to register] Webinar for media: Tobacco industry interference in WHO FCTC

[Watch webinar recording] [Listen to audio podcast] We welcome you to register for an exclusive media webinar on the critically important issue of: tobacco industry interference in the global tobacco treaty (formally called WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control or FCTC).