GGTC to UN: Fight tobacco industry “misinfodemic”

May 5, 2020Bangkok, Thailand The Global Center for Good Governance supports the call to the United Nations (UN) to include the tobacco industry misinformation in the efforts to battle the COVID-19 “misinfodemic.” The call is [...]

Why tobacco money must be kept out of the International Labor Organization

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An Open Letter to the ILO

  To:  Director General of the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Government Members of the 337th Session of the ILO’s Governing Body Reject Tobacco Funding. Regulate the Tobacco Industry.   As members of the [...]

WHO statement urging governments to ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship at international expositions

The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a statement calling upon governments to enforce their obligation under the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Article 13 to enforce comprehensive bans on tobacco advertising promotion and [...]

STOP Tobacco Industry Watchdog Exposes Industry Allies That Undermine Public Health

Close to 100 groups in 22 countries exposed for supporting industry efforts to derail tobacco control  U.S. and U.K. are headquarters for nearly half of front groups, third parties and “astroturf” organizations New York and [...]

WHF and partners call on UN Secretary General to reject proposal for a “more nuanced” relationship with tobacco industry

On behalf of the members of the Global Coalition for Circulatory Health, we are writing to you because we are deeply concerned by a letter on the role of the tobacco industry in the United Nation’s [...]

More than 100 organisations call on ILO not to renew tobacco industry contracts

130 public health and sustainable development organizations from more than 60 countries have called on the International Labour Organization (ILO) not to renew or extend contracts that currently tie the ILO to an industry whose products [...]

No Takers for Philip Morris’ Foundation for Smoke Free World Event

July 4, 2019, Bangkok – The Foundation for Smoke Free World (FSFW)-backed event called Smoke Free Dialogue in Bangkok being convened by SustainAbility in Bangkok had been cancelled because “few attendees confirmed”, according to the [...]

Public Statement in relation to the invitation to attend tobacco industry-backed ‘Smoke Free Dialogue’

GGTC received invitations for two officers to attend the Smoke Free Dialogue, an event organized by SustainAbility, which is funded by the Foundation for a Smoke Free World (FSFW), on July 25 in Bangkok, Thailand. [...]

World No Tobacco Day: It’s Time to Remember the Cigarette Holocaust

PRESS STATEMENT 31 May 2019, Bangkok – As the world celebrates World No Tobacco Day with the theme Tobacco and Lung Health, the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC), urges the global [...]

Secretariat of the WHO FCTC urges Parties to ban all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in all motor sports

Statement 13 March 2019 Source: Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) The Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) wishes to remind Parties of their obligations under Article 13 of the [...]

GGTC lauds WHO’s commitment to keep the tobacco industry out

PRESS STATEMENT 18 February 2019, Bangkok – The Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC) lauds the World Health Organization (WHO)’s recent affirmation of its commitment to reject any kind of support from [...]

WHO Executive Board 144 Panama

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GGTC Selected for Bloomberg Philanthropies STOP Grant

Bloomberg Philanthropies selects Global Centre for Good Governance in Tobacco Control and two key partners to lead STOP: the Global Tobacco Industry Watchdog Bloomberg Philanthropies’ public health team works with partners in low- and middle-income countries [...]

Tobacco watchdog will provide industry monitoring and awareness

The Stopping Tobacco Organizations and Products (STOP) competition was launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Cape Town, South Africa. Prospective applicants could include up to three organizations as partners, but [...]

WCTOH Statement on PMI’s Foundation for a Smoke-free World

Source: WCTOH October 20, 2017: Organisers of the 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health make an explicit policy statement on conference participants: “Anyone affiliated with Philip Morris International’s Foundation for a Smoke-free World is ineligible [...]

WHO Statement on the PMI Foundation

September 28, 2017 Source: World Health Organization The World Health Organization issued a statement on the new Philip Morris new ‘Foundation for a Smoke-free World’ stating, The UN General Assembly has recognized a “fundamental conflict of [...]

If Philip Morris is serious about a “Smoke-Free World,” it should stop marketing cigarettes, fighting efforts to reduce smoking, 2017

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