Global Asbestos Congress 2000
September 17-20, 2000, Osasco, Brazil
Table of Contents
Plenary Sessions
Inaugural Address (text unavailable)
Dr. Silas Bortolosso, Mayor of Osasco
Opening Statements [PDF]
Dr. Paolo Mascarino, Mayor of Casale Monferrato, Italy
Peter Skinner, Member of the European Parliament
Júlio Sebastião Fernandes de Carvalho, Mayor of Viana, Angola (text unavailable)
Deputy Eduardo Jorge, Brazil (text unavailable)
Eng. Fernanda Giannasi, ABREA (text unavailable)
Deputy Eduardo Jorge, Brazil (text unavailable)
Dr. Annie Thébaud-Mony, Ban Asbestos Network (BAN) (text unavailable)
Laurie Kazan-Allen, International Ban Asbestos Secretariat (IBAS)
Introduction to South African Photographic Exhibition [PDF]
Thabo Makweya, Minister in Northern Cape Parliament, South Africa
The ILO and Asbestos (text unavailable)
Armand Pereira, Director, ILO Office for Brazil
Past, Present and Future of the Asbestos Struggle [PDF]
Dr. Richard Lemen, former Assistant Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service and President of the Society for Occupational and Environmental Health (SOEH)
Address by Dr. Richard Lemen [PDF]
Joint Health Initiative: Mount Sinai Hospital - Osasco Project [PDF]
Drs. Steven Markowitz and João de Souza Filho
Prevention: Asbestos Management, Identification, Maintenance or Removal, Contaminated Land
Prevention
Role of Trade Unions (text unavailable)
Nigel Bryson, UK
A Program to Minimise Occupational and Environmental Exposure to Asbestos Cement. A Regulatory View of "Controlled Use" (text unavailable)
Dr. Peter Infante, USA
Exposure in Buildings
Case Study: The Berlaymont - Are there Measurable Health Effects Associated with Work in a Building Containing Flocked Asbestos? [PDF]
B. Nemery, H. De Raeve, J. Verschakelen, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
A Ação Pública No Controle Do Amianto Anfibólio Jateado no Rio De Janeiro (Public Action in Sprayed Amphibole Asbestos Control in Rio De Janeiro) [PDF] Portuguese with English abstract
Eng. João Baptista Galvão Filho and Drs. Fátima Sueli Ribeiro and Eduardo Bethlem, Brazil
Contaminated Land
Asbestos Contaminated Land in South Africa: the Challenge and the Possibilities [PDF]
Sophia Kisting, South Africa
Case Study: Libby, Montana, USA (text unavailable)
Gayla Benefield and John Constan, USA
Case Study: Antophyllite Mine in Brazil - the Case of Itapira (text unavailable)
Rosana Pereira de Lima and Dr. Danilo Fernandes Costa, Brazil
Social Activism: How Collective Strategies of Resistance are Organized by Asbestos Victims and Anti-Asbestos Campaigners in Various Countries
Brazilian Association of People Exposed to Asbestos (ABREA) [PDF]
Eng. Fernanda Giannasi, Brazil
Ban Asbestos Network Japan (BANJAN) and Japan's Citizen's Network for Wiping Out Asbestos [PDF]
Sugio Furuya, Japan
Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia, Inc. [PDF]
Ella Sweeney, Australia
Asbestos Diseases Society of Australia [PDF]
Robert Vojakovic, Australia
Casale Monferrato Asbestos Victims' Group [PDF]
Bruno Pesce, Italy
Dutch Committee of Asbestos Victims (see workshop A)
Bob Ruers, Holland
The Association of Asbestos Victims in Slovenia [PDF]
Dr. Metoda Dodic-Fikfak, Slovenia
White Lung Association [PDF]
Jim Fite, USA
The Manipulation of "Scientific Organizations" [PDF]
Dr. Barry Castleman, USA
Compensation
Personal Injury Compensation in Brazil (including Brazilian
Cases Against General Motors and Saint Gobain) (text unavailable)
Leonardo Amarante, Brazil
Product Liability Litigation In the USA / Implications for
Foreign Claimants (text unavailable)
Dianna Lyons, USA
Reparar Os Prejui'zos Na França, A Luta Das Vitimas Do Amianto Diante Da Justiça (How Does the French Legal System Compensate the Injured?) [PDF]
Dr. Annie Thébaud-Mony , France
The Netherlands: Civil Claims, Compensation Boards and Government Awards [PDF]
Bob Ruers, Holland
Compensation for Asbestos-Related Diseases in Australia (PDF slideshow)
Luisa Formato, Australia
Compensation for Occupational Respiratory Diseases including Asbestosis in South Africa (PDF slideshow)
Dr Audrey Banyini, South Africa
Case Study: Hancock and Margereson vs. T&N plc - Landmark Case for Environmental Exposure [PDF]
John Pickering, UK
Case Study: Multinational Claims Against Cape plc by
South African Workers (text unavailable)
Richard Meeran, UK
Social-Medical Aspects
Asbestos Diseases (text unavailable)
Dr. Gurnam Basran, UK
Problems with Diagnosis and Recognition of Pleural Plaques
as Occupational Disease (text unavailable)
Dr. Jefferson Freitas, Brazil
A Mesothelioma Project (PDF slideshow)
Mavis Robinson, UK
A Precautionary Program for Exposed Workers? [PDF]
Prof. Benedetto Terracini, Italy
A Social and Legal Role for Doctors of Asbestos Victims (text unavailable)
Prof. Diogo Pupo Nogueira, Brazil
Support and Counselling of Asbestos Disease Victims and their Families [PDF]
Rose Marie Vojakovic, Australia
Just Transition: Safe Jobs, not No Jobs [PDF]
Rory O'Neill, UK
Asbestos and Profit
Case Study: Limpet: Spraying Ill-Health World-Wide [PDF]
Dr. Geoffrey Tweedale, UK
Case Study: Mining Asbestos in South Africa: Miners, Capital and the State [PDF]
Dr. Jock McCulloch, Australia
The Future
A World Free of Asbestos: The Future (PDF)
Eng. Fernanda Giannasi, Brazil
Nordic Experiences After Early Asbestos Bans [PDF]
Lars Vedsmand, Denmark
Implications of The World Trade Organization Verdict for Public Health and Global Trade [PDF]
Dr. Barry Castleman, USA
Closing of Congress
Awards
Award: Presentation of the Ray Sentes Award to Barry Castleman [PDF]
Kyla Sentes, USA
Award: Presentation of the June Hancock Award to Henri Pezerat [PDF]
Mavis Robinson, UK
Award: Presentation of the Hendrik Afrika Award to Fernando José
Chierici [PDF]
Thabo Makweya, South Africa
Closing Remarks (text unavailable)
WORKSHOPS
Workshop A: Liability/Compensation
Coordinator: Leonardo Amarante, Brazil
The Development of Personal-Injury Law and Compensation for Asbestos-Related Diseases in the Netherlands [PDF]
Bob Ruers, Holland
Other Participants:
Luisa Formato, Jock McCulloch and Robert Vojakovic, Australia
Fuyushi Nagakura and Shigeharu Nakachi, Japan
Dr. Audrey Banyini, South Africa
Colin Ettinger, Richard Meeran, John Pickering and Geoffrey Tweedale, UK
Dianna Lyons and Charles Siegel, USA
Thomas Hart, Virgin Islands
Workshop B: Epidemiology, Public Health and Sociological Research
Coordinator: Dr. Hermano Albuquerque Castro, Brazil
Epidemiology
Epidemiological Trends For Asbestos-Related Cancers [PDF]
Antti Tossavainen, Finland
Other Participants:
Prof. Benedetto Terracini, Italy
Prof. Julian Peto, UK
Drs. Peter Infante and Richard Lemen, USA
Sociology
Other Participants:
Dr. Annie Thébaud-Mony, France
Lic. Eva Delgado Rosas, Peru
Public Health
Japanese Situation On Asbestos Issues And Banjan's Activities [PDF]
Sugio Furuya, Fuyushi Nagakura, Yuji Natori and Shigeharu Nakachi, Japan
Asbestos Problems In Korea: History And Current Situation [PDF]
Domyung Paek, MD, ScD, Korea
History of the Asbestos Ban in Casale Monferrato [PDF]
Dr. Daniela Degiovanni, Italy
Other Participants:
Dr. Mario Epelman, Argentina
Dr. Yuji Natori and Sugio Furuya, Japan
Dr. T Jayabalan, Malaysia
Dr. Metoda Dodic-Fikfak, Slovenia
Dr. Sophia Kisting, South Africa
Mavis Robinson, Asbestos Nursing Specialist, UK
Workshop C: Asbestos-Related Diseases, Diagnosis, Pathology, Treatment and Experimental Studies (Gene Therapy)
Coordinator: Dr. Eduardo Algranti, Brazil
Avaliação Respiratória Em Trabalhadores De Uma Industria Têxtil De Amianto (PDF slideshow)
Hermano Albuquerque de Castro, Alfred Lemle, Luis Carlos Correia Alves, Antonio Chibante, Vera Gomes Bom, Brasil
English:
Evaluation of Respiratory Problems among Workers in an Asbestos Textile Factory (PDF slideshow)
Translated by Chris Whitehouse
Uses and Abuses of Pathology in Asbestos-exposed Populations (PDF slideshow)
Jerrold L. Abraham, MD, USA
Câncer De Pulmão E Asbestos: Critérios Para Atribuição Diagnostica [PDF]
Ubiratan de Paula Santos, Brasil
Issues in the Management of Asbestos-related Diseases (PDF slideshow)
Domyung Paek, MD, ScD, Korea
Other Participants:
Prof. Benoit Nemery, Belgium
Dr. Yuji Natori and Shigeharu Nakachi, Japan
Dr. T. Jayabalan, Malaysia
Dr. Metoda Dodic-Fikfak, Slovenia
Dr. Gurnam Basran, UK
Drs. Steven Markowitz and Christine Oliver, USA
Round-Table Discussion A: Strategies for Latin America and the Developing World to Ban Asbestos
Coordinators:
Dr. Eduardo Rodrigues Argentina
Lic. Eva Delgado Rosas, Peru
and Dr. René Mendes, Brazil
Round-Table Discussion B: Asbestos Victims Speak-Out!
Coordinator: Eliezer João de Souza, Brazil
Congress Video Presentations [PDF]
Round-Table Discussion C: Trade Unions and Asbestos: Old Problems and New Solutions
Coordinator: Edison Luiz Bernardes, Brazil
Union Statement on Banning Asbestos Worldwide [PDF]
Academic and Group Presentations
Asbestos-Cement Materials: A Practical Approach to Protecting Worker Health during Maintenance and Construction [PDF]
Andrew F. Oberta USA
Remediation Of Land In Israel Contaminated By Asbestos Cement Waste Material [PDF]
Eng. Zilly Anavi, Dr. David Dizenhouse, Israel
Andrew F. Oberta, USA
Asbestos Diseases in Brazil and the Building of Counter-Powers: A Study in Health, Work, and Gender [PDF]
L. Scavone, F. Giannasi, Brazil
A. Thébaud-Mony, France
A Saúde e as Relações de Gênero dos Trabalhadores de Uma Indústria Têxtil de Amianto no Rio De Janeiro [PDF]
Vanda D'Acri, Hermano Albuquerque de Castro, Maria Blandina Marques dos Santos, Katia Reis de Souza and Cyro Haddad Novello, Brasil
English Abstract:
The Health and Working Conditions of Workers Exposed to Asbestos in a Rio De Janeiro Textile Factory: Analysis and Intervention [PDF]
English abstract compiled by Chris Whitehouse
A Saúde a as Relações de Gênero dos Trabalhadores de Uma Indústria Têxtil de Amianto no Rio De Janeiro [PDF]
Vanda D'Acri, Hermano Albuquerque de Castro, Maria Blandina Marques dos Santos, Katia Reis de Souza and Cyro Haddad Novello (Brasil)
Occupational and Environmental Rights Violation in the Asbestos Industry in Mexico [PDF]
G. Aguilar-Madrid, C. A. Juárez-Pérez, J. H. Vazquez-Grameix and M. Hernández-Avila, Mexico
Amphibole Asbestos Contamination in Mineral Raw Materials: the Example of some Brazilian Talc Deposits [PDF]
G. A. J. Szabó, Fo, J. B. Madureira, F. M. S. Carvalho, F. R. D. Andrade, G. G. B. Guimarães, Brazil
Merseyside Victims Support Group Display and Distributed Papers [PDF]
John Flanagan
Institutional Knowledge, Common Knowledge: Occupational Asbestos Diseases and Gender [PDF]
Lucila Scavone and Jovana Alves de Melo
For coverage of the Children's Poster Competition see Illustrated Congress Report [PDF] by Laurie Kazan-Allen and Congress Photographs [PDF]
Extra Congress Submissions
A Construção de Contra-Poderes no Brasil Na Luta Contra o Amianto: A Globilização Por Baixo [PDF]
Fernanda Giannasi (Brasil)
Globalization from Below: Building an Anti-Asbestos Movement in Brazil [PDF](English Abstract)
Compiled by Chris Whitehouse
Asbestos Disease Association (Inc) of New Zealand - A View of the Asbestos Situation from 1990 to the Year 2000 [PDF]
A.H. Grootegoed, New Zealand
Efeitos da Inalação de Fibras de Asbestos (Amianto) Sobre a Saúde Humana: Estado Atual do Conhecimento a Fundamentação Cientifica para uma Política de Priorização de Defesa da Vida, da Saúde e do Meio-Ambiente [PDF]
Prof. René Mendes, Brazil
Effects of the Inhalation of Asbestos Fibres on Human Health: the Current State of Knowledge and the Scientific Grounds for a Policy that Prioritises Life, Health and the Environment [PDF] (English Abstract)
Compiled by Chris Whitehouse
Pushed into Social Exclusion: Asbestos-Related Disability and Relative Poverty on Clydeside [PDF]
Ronald Johnston and Arthur McIvor, Scotland
Incubating Death: Working with Asbestos in Clydeside Shipbuilding and Engineering, 1945-1990 [PDF]
Ronald Johnston and Arthur McIvor, Scotland
Turners and the Asbestos Legacy in Clydebank [PDF]
Ronald Johnston and Arthur McIvor, Scotland
Asbestos Magnate to Environmental Guru: The Morphing of Stephan Schmidheiny [PDF]
Daniel M. Berman and Adrian Knoepfli, USA
The Still Emerging Public Health Problem [PDF]
George A. Peters and Barbara J. Peters, USA
Programa de Salud del Trabajador Asbesto [PDF]
Ministerio de Salud, Argentina
WTO Upholds French Ban on Chrysotile [PDF]
Laurie Kazan-Allen, UK
Congress Reports
Illustrated Report [PDF] (English) In Portuguese [PDF]
Laurie Kazan-Allen
Text Report [PDF]
John Flanagan
Text Report [PDF]
A.H. (Ed) Grootegoed
Text Report [PDF] (Italian)
Benedetto Terracini
Photographs
Extracts from South African Photographic Exhibition (PDF slideshow)
Hein duPlessis
Informal and Formal Photographs of Congress Delegates and Proceedings [PDF]
Eduardo Metroviche, Laurie Kazan-Allen, Fernanda Giannasi and John Flanagan
Asbestos and Asbestos Related Diseases in India (PDF slideshow)
Hein duPlessis
Contacts