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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
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]
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 3291FAX 508 452 5711
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