Intense Regional Training in Health and Human Rights,
“Monitoring the Right to Health in Latin America”
Lima, Peru, October 6-10, 2006
IFHHRO and Edhucasalud offer an intense 5 day residential course. The course is designed for health professionals as well as for officials and others from the civil society dealing with health related issues on a daily basis.
The training is designed to present available tools to monitor the right to health within the Latin American region.
Participants will acquire a basic knowledge of international human right and humanitarian law and its relation with public health practices.
Our aim is to present ways of monitoring health issues with a human right based approach, including practices and policies, to attain sufficient familiarity of the international and regional mechanism and procedure to safeguard the right to health of people.
Program Format:
A balance between talks, workshops, presentations, case studies and onsite visits will give enough opportunity to interact and establish network contacts with training facilitators and fellow participants. The small group setting will also give numerous occasions to use tools presented in your professional work.
About the Program:
Experts from different organisations and institutions together with a wide range of participants will create a dynamic and different learning setting. The program will cover:
The basic concept of Health and Human Rights and the Right to Health
Application of the Human Rights Framework to Public Health Policies and Programs
How to use the UN mechanism, Shadow Reports, Special Procedures
How to use the Inter American System
Other topics that will be touched in relation with the Right to Health:
International Trade Agreements and medicines
HIV/AIDS and Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Domestic Violence
Social Exclusion, discrimination and minorities
Mental Health
Maternal Mortality
Social determinants to the right to health
The Dilemma of Dual Loyalty
Medium of course:
Spanish with some course material in English
Who is invited to apply?
Health practitioners
Community health leaders
Policymakers
Legal practitioners
Activists and researchers
Public officials
Criteria of Selection:
For health professionals:
The main target group for the course is health professionals. There is no minimum requirement of human rights law, humanitarian law or public international law. It is essential though to be able to show an interest in human rights and especially in the right to health and:
The numbers of year of field experience with an affinity to the right to health.
The involvement in civil society in general, and monitoring the monitoring the right to health in particular.
The variation of health professionals needs to be as great as possible and we will thus seek to offer places to general practitioners, midwifes, psychiatrist, paediatricians, nurses. Special attention will be given to professionals who work in rural zones or who have experience of work with refugees, displaced persons, interns and other vulnerable groups.
NGO/Lawyers:
There ought to be a minimum knowledge of international human rights law and/or at least the experience of identifying human rights violations; an affinity to the health sector and/or experience in monitoring the Right to Health.
Criteria:
The number of years of field experience in human rights and monitoring the Right to Health.
To have the greater number of NGOs and/or lawyers who deal with:
Indigenous people
Mental Health
Reproductive rights
Children
Fight against Poverty
HIV/AIDS tuberculosis (considering Paul’s report)
Officials:
Taking in account the number of officials that Paul met during his mission in Peru, it could be interesting to see if any of them would like to participate, especially the National Coordinator for Human Rights and the Coalition for Human Rights and Health.
Registration Fees: US$200
Fee includes:
Registration and participation to all activities of the Course
Course materials
Breakfast, coffee breaks, lunches and dinners
Accommodation
Participation Certificate
IFHHRO will grant partial or complete scholarships which may cover the registration fee or/and the travel expenses. Those granted with at scholarship for the travel expenses will be required to attend the Conference “Exclusion and the Right to Health” to be held from the 11th to the 13th of October in Lima, Peru.
Venue: Casino de la Policia, La Molina, Lima, Peru
To download an application form: www.edhucasalud.org
Telephone: +511 242 32 82
e-mail: info@edhucasalud.org
Sponsors: CARE, Peru
Colegio Médico del Perú
Instituto de Democracia y Derechos Humanos de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Ministry of Health, Peru
Pan American Health Organisations
UNFPA