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> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 09:50:34 EST5EDT4,M4.1.0,M10.5.0
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> Subj: early announcement of Hungarian symposium
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> ADVANCE ANNOUNCEMENT
>
> Meeting the Challenge of Privatization: Its Impact on
> Occupational Health and Safety, Public Health, and Environmental
> Protection
>
> 9th Annual Symposium on Environmental and Occupational Health
> During Societal Transition in Central and Eastern Europe
>
> Budapest, Hungary
>
> June 8-12, 1998
>
> The 9th Annual symposium will focus on the challenge of
> protecting public health and the environment in the economic and
> political restructuring of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). We
> wish to bring together representatives from academia,
> community-based organizations, industry, labor unions,
> government, NGOs, and public policy makers from Central, Eastern,
> and Western Europe, the USA, and other countries to discuss the
> public health issues related to the privatization of publicly
> owned and/or controlled industries and services.
>
> This symposium will focus upon the following themes and issues:
>
> * The experienced impact of privatization upon the environment,
> workplace health and safety, and public health, in different
> economic sectors in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
>
> * The roles and responsibilities of the following organizations
> to protect public health in the process of economic
> restructuring: governments (national and local); international
> health agencies; international redevelopment and finance
> agencies; trade unions; NGOs; and, Community-based organizations.
>
> * Experiences of labor and communities dealing with international
> firms elsewhere, e.g., Mexico, Canada, Asia, and Western Europe.
>
> * Alternatives to privatization that might better support public
> health and the environment.
>
> * The impact of privatization on the regulatory capacity of
> governments.
>
> * Criteria for privatization efforts that will support the health
> of workers and communities.
>
>
> The topics will be discussed in the context of case studies.
> Discussion workshops will follow the presentations, permitting
> broad participation. Simultaneous translation services will be
> available for Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Russian, and
> English languages.
>
> Registration fee, including lodging and meals during the
> Symposium: $595 ($695 after 4/30/98); $350 for full-time
> registered students; and $300 for CEE participants. (All US
> Dollars)
>
> For more information contact: Professor Charles Levenstein,
> Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts
> Lowell, 1 University Ave., Lowell, MA 01854.
> Phone: 978/934-3255
> Fax: 978/452-5711.
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Initial Co-Sponsors: Environmental and Occupational Health
> Sciences Institute, Rutgers University and UMDNJ-RWJMS;
> Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts;
> Center for International Rural and Environmental Health,
> University of Iowa; Swiss Labor Cooperation, Bern, Switzerland;
> De Montfort University, Centre for Occupational and Environmental
> Health, Leicester, England; Central European University,
> Environmental Science and Policy Department, Budapest, Hungary;
> Fact Institute of Applied Social Science Research, Pecs, Hungary.
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> Craig Slatin
> Department of Work Environment & Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
> University of Massachusetts Lowell
> 1 University Ave.
> Lowell, MA 01854
>
> tel. 508 934 3291 FAX 508 452 5711
>
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