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The Global Dimension
Global Learning Seminar Series 2009/2010As part of its wider campaign to raise awareness of global issues and to bring the 'global' into the 'local', the Centre for Global Perspectives is hosting a series of seminars where invited guest speakers will lead discussions on selected global issues, global processes and perspectives from other countries and cultures. The seminar series will include the following topics. November 11, 1pm – 2pm November 18, 4pm – 5pm December 2, 1pm – 2pm January 27,1pm – 2pm February 26,1pm – 2pm Both staff and students are welcome. Please email CGP@bournemouth.ac.uk for more information. Human Trafficking in your CommunityHow much would you pay for a new coat? How much would you pay for the person making the coat? Buying and selling people in known as human trafficking. It is a huge global crime affecting hundreds of thousands (some say millions) of men, women and children who are up for sale, on the market and available to the highest bidder. From children trafficked onto cocoa plantations to make our chocolate bars to women forced into sexual exploitation to Vietnamese boys trafficked to work in cannabis growing houses - the problem is massive and you can be sure it affects you. STOP THE TRAFFIK is a global grass roots movement campaigning to prevent trafficking, protect victims and prosecute traffickers. This seminar will help you understand what human trafficking is, how it affects you, signs to look out for and most importantly, what you can do about it. Victoria Kuhr Victoria Kuhr is STOP THE TRAFFIK's Community Action and Resources Officer. STOP THE TRAFFIK is a global movement working to prevent people trafficking, prosecute traffickers and protect the victims of trafficking. Previously, Victoria was part of a team driving a successful awareness and fundraising campaign focusing on child trafficking and exploitation in the cocoa industry at an international level. She has devised and delivered education materials and resources to empower and equip people of all ages to become advocates in the fight against global injustice. Victoria has a passion for equality and human rights, with an academic and practical background in social services and education, Victoria is driven by a steadfast belief in the need to act on behalf of others. The Global Tobacco Epidemic: what can be done?Jean King With a background in biochemistry and human nutrition, I have lived and worked in the West Indies and Nigeria where I lectured on nutrition and was involved in research promoting the consumption of local legumes and the use of oral rehydration for childhood diarrhoeal disease. On my return to the UK, I continued to research tropical childhood nutrition and then worked in science policy at the former Agricultural and Food Research Council. I have worked for Cancer Research UK (pre the 2002 merger for the Cancer Research Campaign) for over twenty years: first as scientific secretary where my role was in science policy and Institutes' funding; then as CRC director of education, managing the education and psychosocial research programme and developing the charity's strategy on cancer prevention, especially in relation to diet, sun exposure and tobacco control; next as director of behavioural research and tobacco control holding overall responsibility for the population and behavioural research portfolio, and for promoting effective tobacco control policies and policy research, within the organisation and externally at UK and international level. I developed the Code of Practice on Tobacco Industry Funding for Research, which prohibits those in receipt of tobacco funds from receiving CR-UK grants, and the Tobacco Advisory Group that supports research and advocacy in key policy areas. With the American Cancer Society, I set up the FCTC advocacy awards and most recently the Africa Tobacco Control Regional Initiative. With other founding members, I helped establish the EU Smokefree Partnership that advocates within the European Institutions for effective tobacco control and non-interference by tobacco companies. Within the UK, I was involved in the tobacco advertising ban campaign in the 1990s and, more recently, with the Smokefree Action coalition and CR-UK's tobacco, press, parliamentary and campaigns teams, have worked to achieve comprehensive smokefree legislation. I've been vice-chair of the ASH board for many years and a member of many steering groups and committees, and have presented at many conferences-in particular campaigning for isolation of the tobacco industry by researchers, journals and funding bodies, and for greater and well-coordinated international funding for tobacco control in low-resource countries. Delivering safe sex messages through peer education around the globeThe Red Cross and Red Crescent movement works to deliver safe sex messages through peer education, as well as helping those who are HIV positive to live with the virus. It also aims to reduce the stigma surrounding the issue in communities, and helps communities be resilient to the impact of HIV on the economy, family life etc. Maxwell Madzikanga Maxwell Madzikanga recently joined the British Red Cross as the Health Advisor with a focus on Africa, in the Partnership Development Department, International division. Previously, Maxwell worked as a Public Health Senior Practitioner for NHS West Kent Primary Care Trust, United Kingdom. He was also a Senior Research Officer to Professor Paul Hunt, the immediate former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health (2002-2008). In his capacity as Senior Researcher, Maxwell provided technical support on HIV and Human Rights to Professor Paul Hunt. Previously Maxwell held HIV Programme assignments with the American Friends Service Committee (Africa region Women and Youth HIV/AIDS Programme Officer), Africa University HIV Programme Coordinator, Youth Alive Zimbabwe National Programme Director, Zimbabwe National AIDS Council National HIV Social Support and Community Mobilisation Programme Coordinator, and Family AIDS Caring Trust-Zimbabwe HIV Programme Coordinator. From mid 1995 to early 2000 Maxwell was an active volunteer with the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society. For four consecutive years he was also a volunteer district secretary for Mvuma District in Zimbabwe. In 2004, Maxwell was a World AIDS Day Events Co-Director for a UNICEF supported Zimbabwe World AIDS Day commemoration national youth festival. Maxwell is an independent technical reviewer for the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP). Maxwell holds the following qualifications: Bachelor of Science in Politics and Administration Honours; Bachelor of Science Special Honours Degree in Psychology; Master of Science in Disease Control (Reproductive Health and HIV), Erasmus Mundus European Master of Bioethics (magna cum laude) and a Diploma in Adult Education. In addition Maxwell holds certificates in Systemic HIV Counselling (Regional AIDS Training Network), NGO Governance (FAHAMU and University of Oxford), Access to Information(FAHAMU and Article 19), Leadership Development Training (British Council Interaction Programme). He is also a former participant of the United States of America Department of State International HIV Exchange Visitors Programme (2001) and 2005 visiting fellow of St Jude Children Research Hospital in Memphis, USA. Health Research in Rural NepalThe seminar will introduce some key aspects of Nepal, one of the poorer developing countries. Its health status and health care system will be outlined. It will also highlight some of the key issues in rural health care across the globe. Of the many possible examples the migration of health care staff will be highlighted as a North-South problem. At a more personal level Prof. van Teijlingen will outline some of the more challenging aspects of doing research in developing countries. Professor Edwin R. van Teijlingen Professor Edwin van Teijlingen started last May as in the School of Health & Social Care. Edwin is a medical sociologist with a long-standing interest in midwifery and maternity care research. He is originally from the Netherlands and studied at the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and the University of Aberdeen (Scotland). Edwin has been involved in a range of studies in the reproductive and sexual health field, both in the UK and abroad (especially in Nepal). He has published more than 115 peer-reviewed academic articles. Many of his studies are based on mixed-methods and/or on cross-cultural approaches. He has also published a range of papers on various aspects of qualitative research methods. His edited books include Birth by Design: Pregnancy, Maternity Care and Midwifery in North America and Europe (published by Routledge) and Midwifery and the Medicalization of Childbirth (published by Nova Science in New York). He has been conducting research in Nepal for the past five years with colleagues from the University of Aberdeen, including studies into reproductive and sexual health One 'comprehensive health promotion pilot programme' is funded by the Green Tara Trust, a Buddhist charity based in London. To-date this work has resulted in several published papers. It's not the 'Air Miles' that matter! What really matters?Global issues are often inter-linked. Come and find out more about this controversial issue: how do we reconcile climate change and development? 'Many ethical consumers have faced the dilemma of whether to buy Fairtrade or local. People worry that products imported from developing countries have a heavier impact on the environment due to the distance they travel. But the reality is not that simple.' – The Fairtrade Foundation, 2009 Toby QuantrillToby Quantrill joined the Fairtrade Foundation as the Head of Public Policy in June 2009. This is a newly created position in the Fairtrade Foundation, which has the objective of using the experience and the unique strengths of the Fairtrade Foundation to influence the wider policy agenda, on issues such as trade justice and sustainable consumption. He had previously worked as part of the Sustainable Consumption team at WWF-UK, during which time he was co-chair of the Development and Environment Group of NGOs – a network of UK based International NGOs seeking to develop coordinated policy positions on issues where the environment and development agendas overlap. He has also worked in the UK for NGOs addressing issues of health, migration and rural development and he started his career working as a volunteer with a forest and agricultural programme in northwest Cameroon. He believes that poverty and environmental degradation are essentially political problems and that 'in the struggle between the weak and the powerful, to do nothing is not to be neutral; it is to side with the powerful against the weak'. |
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