All medical and public health students form Nepal or abroad are welcome to:
2007 Asian Students' Meeting
A Call from the Medical Community for the Prevention of Small Arms
On August 28th - 29th, 2007, the Nepalese affiliate of IPPNW PSRN (Physicians for Social Responsibility Nepal) will be organizing a 2-day Asian students' meeting in Kathmandu. This meeting will focus on preventing small arms violence.
Objectives
To be self aware about small arm tragedies.
To know the ways adapted in some countries for tackling small arm violence.
Development of ways of handling the problems of small arms on our part through brainstorming and following the examples of other countries.
Dissemination of our findings to the media for mass awareness.
What are our expectations at the end of the programme?
Self awareness
Development of a formal forum in order to extend IPPNW programs to our part of the globe.
Development of solutions at our level so that we can include them in our local projects.
To register for the conference, please log on to the PSRN blogspot website.
Please contact the program coordinator, and Nepalese IPPNW-students contact Chudamani Giri for other inquiries at
chudamanigiri@iom.edu.np.
Program Details
(subject to change)
Day 1, 28th August
Inauguration by the president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Nepal Prof. Dr. Mathura Prasad Shrestha.
Cultural ProgramIntroductory Session among students and exchange of information about the local projects and other activities of the student groups
Introduction of the program and its objectivesExpert comments by Dr. Indra Jit Rai on "Small Arms Violence: its dangers and magnitude"
Day 2, 29th August
Paper presentation on " Health and Humanitarian consequences of Small Arms Violence" (All participants interested to present the papers are requested to contact Mr. Chuda Mani Giri at
chudamanigiri@iom.edu.com )
Discussion on the papers presented and expert comments (speaker to be decided)
A One Bullet Story to expose the human face of small arms violence
A Drama
Framing a networking module to establish a regional coordination and launch a concerted effort in a campaign against the small arms
Day 3, 30th August
A city tour of Kathmandu and the surrounding hill stations
For detail see following links
International Student Movement of IPPNW International Student Movement of IPPNW Physicians for Social Responsibility, Nepal
OR contact
9841630494
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