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Conference: The Effects of Sanctions
on Health: A Case Study on the Gulf
Date: Saturday February 9th, 2002
Time: 11:45 am
Location: McMaster University
Healthsciences
Building (HSC) Room 1A1
1280
Main Street West
Hamilton,
ON - Canada
Cost: $15 for students, $20 for adults (Lunch and refreshments
included)
Guest Speakers:
Felicity Arbuthnot: Freelance journalist
Denis Halliday: Former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations
(Former Project Manager for the Oil for Food Program)
Dr. Richard Garfield:
Clinical Professor of International Nursing, Columbia University and
Visiting Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr. Peter Pellet: Professor of Nutrition
at University of Massachusetts
Dr. Thomas Nagy: Professor of Expert Systems
at George Washington University
The aim of this conference is to explore
the various effects of sanctions on civilian populations. Iraq serves
as an excellent case study, as it has experienced the impact of
sanctions for over 10 years.
This conference wishes to encourage a healthy debate on the following
issues:
1) What are the economic impacts of sanctions on a country?
2) How does this economic impact affect the health and welfare of
civilians?
3) How do sanctions directly target the health and well being of
civilians?
4) Do sanctions serve any positive purposes to the global community?
5) Who is paying the price? What are the bioethics of sanctions?
6) What should the Canadian response be towards sanctions?
It might also prove necessary to examine the political situations/dilemmas
that led to the implementation of sanctions on Iraq.
For reservations please contact moubarr@yahoo.com
Sponsors:
1) McMaster
University centre for Peace Studies
2) National Council
on Canada-Arab Relations
3) OPIRG (Ontario
Public Interest Research Group)
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