This year again medico will be part of the German Public Health Congress Poverty and Health taking place in Berlin from the 6th to 7th of March.
We invited partners and other well know speakers to discuss with us the ill-effects of the current Global Trade Regime and Financial Market.
Wednesday, 6th of March, 11.30 am to 5.45 pm
PROGRAMME
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
EXPENSES OF THE CURRENT WORLD TRADE REGIME
- Condemned without Earth. The ill-effects of extractive industries.
Anne Jung, medico international, Frankfurt/M - The Great Hunger Lottery. The price of food speculations.
Thilo Bode, foodwatch, Berlin - Steel and Dust. ThyssenKrupp and the alliance of resistance.
Sandra Quintela, Instituto Políticas Alternativas para o Cone Sul , Rio de Janeiro/Brasil
Moderation: Katja Maurer, medico
LUNCH BREAK
2:15 – 3:45 pm
UNIONS AND THEIR STRUGGLE FOR HEALTH
- Cheap Blue Jeans with a high Cost. The Workers Rights Movement against the textile slavery in Pakistan.
Nasir Mansoor, National Trade Unions Federation, Karatschi/Pakistan - Health Workers – Human capital for the global market.
Thomas Schwarz, Medicus Mundi International, Basel/Schweiz - A Game without Winners. Consequential costs of the competing world economy.
Knut Lambertin, German Trade Union Federation, Berlin
Moderation: Kirsten Schubert, medico
4:15 – 5:45 pm
KNOWLEDGE, POWER AND RIGHTS
- Poverty and Health in South Europe. A report from Portugal.
Prof. Luís Lapão, Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Lissabon/Portugal. - Health and Society. An EU-Project on the social determinants of health.
Dr. Johanna Offe, GIZ, Berlin - A Rights Perspective. The responsibility of private actors.
Wolfgang Kaleck, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Berlin
Moderation: Thomas Seibert, medico
Venue:
Congress Poverty and Health
Main Building, Technische Universität Berlin
Strasse des 17. Juni 135
10623 Berlin
More information and application here
The medico panels will be simultaneously translated English-German!