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I am participating in the Global Alcohol Policy Conference – GAPC – 13-15 February 2012 in Nonthaburi, Thailand.
About 900 people are registered and our Thai hosts have done a marvelous job organising so far.
The Conference is jointly organized by the Thai Ministry of Public Health, the World Health Organization, the Global Alcohol Policy Alliance (GAPA) and the Thai Health Promotion Foundation and is co-sponsered by among others IOGT International.
On Tuesday 14 February I will be speaking in a session on the topic “Put Alcohol on Political Agenda”.
The Conference is jointly organized by the Thai Ministry of Public Health, the World Health Organization, the Global Alcohol Policy Alliance (GAPA) and the Thai Health Promotion Foundation and is co-sponsered by among others IOGT International.
On Tuesday 14 February I will be speaking in a session on the topic “Put Alcohol on Political Agenda”. You can check out my profile, including a rather old picture of mine, as one among many highly respectable experts on alcohol issues.
Fifa, football’s world governing body, keeps insisting that alcohol must be sold at all venues hosting matches in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Fifa even speaks of a right to sell beer. But alcohol is currently banned from Brazilian stadiums as part of measures to reduce violence in football and to improve public health in general. The country’s health minister has urged the parliament to maintain the ban in the new “World Cup law”.
The board of IOGT International held its meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand on 26th and on 29th of November 2011.