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On 11th March 2013, on the occasion of the second anniversary of the beginning of the Fukushima health disaster, the members of IndependentWHO have sent to WHO the Proceedings of the Forum which we organised in Geneva in May 2012. A letter addressed to Dr Chan, Director of WHO has also been sent, requesting that she meet with representatives of citizen organisations to discuss the violations of the Right to Health associated with the nuclear disaster at Fukushima in Japan. In Dr Chan’s absence, it was Dr Maria Neira, Director of the Public Health and Environment Department who greeted the  [ Read More ]

Since April 26, 2007, the Hippocratic Vigil has been held outside the WHO headquarters in Geneva, which now makes a total of 305 weeks without interruption. The vigil consists of a silent presence that aims to remind the World Health Organization of its obligations as set out in its constitution. We have added the name of Hippocrates to our description because of the ethical rules he instituted for health practitioners. As far as the protection of the health of people affected by the consequences of the nuclear industry is concerned, the World Health Organization ignores these rules. The Vigil takes  [ Read More ]

Since April 26, 2007, the Hippocratic Vigil has been held outside the WHO headquarters in Geneva, which now makes a total of 301 weeks without interruption. The vigil consists of a silent presence that aims to remind the World Health Organization of its obligations as set out in its constitution. We have added the name of Hippocrates to our description because of the ethical rules he instituted for health practitioners. As far as the protection of the health of people affected by the consequences of the nuclear industry is concerned, the World Health Organization ignores these rules. The Vigil takes  [ Read More ]

As the end of year holidays arrived, a third respite break was organised in Takashima, a town close to Kyoto, for the children who live in the areas heavily contaminated by the Fukushima disaster. Makiko Fujimoto is a mother, and it is she who organises these respite breaks simply because, for her, it is natural to do the most that you can to ensure that the children, wherever they are from, should be happy and free from suffering. Because she is not normally involved in organising this type of event, it was not easy for her to begin with, but  [ Read More ]

An alternative conference was organised by the ‘Nuclear Free Now’ collective, in Koriyama, a town situated 55km from the Fukushima power plant, from 12th to 17th December 2012, in response to the ministerial meeting on nuclear safety organised for the same dates in the same town by the Japanese government and the IAEA. As the organisers of the alternative forum wanted a member of IndependentWHO to make a presentation on the WHO/IAEA Agreement and talk about our organisation’s activities, I took part in various events that ‘Nuclear Free Now’ had organised.   ~   In Tokyo, a preliminary meeting was  [ Read More ]

Since April 26, 2007, the Hippocratic Vigil has been held outside the WHO headquarters in Geneva, which now makes a total of 295 weeks without interruption. The vigil consists of a silent presence that aims to remind the World Health Organization of its obligations as set out in its constitution. We have added the name of Hippocrates to our description because of the ethical rules he instituted for health practitioners. As far as the protection of the health of people affected by the consequences of the nuclear industry is concerned, the World Health Organization ignores these rules. The Vigil takes  [ Read More ]

The World Health Organisation has failed in its obligation to protect the public and guilty of the crime of non-assistance. World Health Organisation subservient to nuclear lobby. The World Health Report (May 2012) entitled “Preliminary dose estimation from the nuclear accident after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami” [1] is a public relations exercise to reassure the world that WHO is fulfilling its role in the area of radiation and health. Following the preliminary dose estimation, WHO will complete a health risk assessment to “support the identification of needs and priorities for public health action.” But this report  [ Read More ]

Since April 26, 2007, the Hippocratic Vigil has been held outside the WHO headquarters in Geneva, which now makes a total of 292 weeks without interruption. The vigil consists of a silent presence that aims to remind the World Health Organization of its obligations as set out in its constitution. We have added the name of Hippocrates to our description because of the ethical rules he instituted for health practitioners. As far as the protection of the health of people affected by the consequences of the nuclear industry is concerned, the World Health Organization ignores these rules. The Vigil takes  [ Read More ]

Anand Grover, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health was mandated by the United Nations to report on the health situation in Japan. He was appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Health in June 2008. Since then, he has performed this role with particular attention to the most basic health rights of citizens of the world vis-à-vis powerful industries, the medical lobby or States trying to escape their responsibilities for health. In November 2012, after spending ten days in areas affected by the nuclear disaster at Fukushima-Daiichi, he presented his initial findings at a press conference  [ Read More ]

Helen Caldicott is an Australian anti-nuclear activist and physician, born in Melbourne in 1938. In 1982, she founded Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND), and was very active in the group International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW). She divides her time between the United States and Australia and gives lectures in order to make known her views about nuclear power. She gave a press conference in Tokyo November 19, 2012 about the medical consequences of Fukushima. It is, according to her, the