Children’s health and the environment
12 – 13 April 2011
Followed by a three-day international academic intensive course of Environmental Medicine, 14 – 15 – 16 April 2011
at UNESCO, 125 avenue de Suffren, 75015 Paris
In memory of LORENZO TOMATIS, TEDDY GOLDSMITH and GEORGES MATHE
Organised by ARTAC, in partnership with HEAL and the International Society of Doctors for the Environment, under the technical support of WHO.
– What is the Paris Appeal?
The Paris Appeal, an international declaration on the sanitary dangers of chemical pollution, was launched on May 7, 2004 and initiated by the ARTAC during a first Congress organized at UNESCO in Paris.
This Appeal has now been signed by thousands of scientists, several Novel Prizes in Medicine, the medical governing bodies of the 25 EU member states at the time (the EU now includes 27 member states), which amounts to over 2 million European doctors, by close to 1,500 non-governmental organizations and approximately 350,000 European citizens.
In 2006, the second Congress of the Paris Appeal brought together about a thousand doctors, scientists, environmentalists and representatives of the civil society. The ARTAC presented a Memorandum stating 164 practical measures drawn up by 68 international specialists in an attempt to curb chemical pollution in our environment and the numerous chronic diseases and affections that result from it.
The third Congress of the Paris Appeal will focus on CHILDREN’S HEALTH in relation with the environment.
This Congress will bring together several of the best international specialists and will review the latest scientific breakthroughs in that field.
Not only will the whole set of chemical pollutants involved be tackled, but also sanitary effects of electromagnetic fields.
This Congress will focus more specifically on transgenerational risks caused by in utero contamination of the embryo and fetus, which results in the onset of diseases and affections not only in children, but also in adults.
Thus, it will deal with factors contributing to current public health scourges that we now need to halt and that may get worse tomorrow, if no laws are enforced to cut back on pollution in our environment.
Documents:
– Poster