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Eastern Mediterranean Prevention of Substance Abuse In June WFMHs Eastern Mediterranean Regional Council (EMRC) joined with the Arab Federation for NGOs for the Prevention of Substance Abuse to organize a regional conference on substance abuse. (The Arab Federation was founded in 1996 by an initiative of the WFMH Committee to Combat Substance Abuse and the…
“Seventeenth-century philosopher Rene Descartes conceptualized the distinction between the mind and the body. He viewed the “mind” as completely separable from the “body” And for almost two centuries, mental health advocates have been trying to put them back together This separation between so-called “mental” and” physical” health has no real relevance to the scientific…
Yemen Dr. Hassan Kassim Khan, WFMH Vice President for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, visited Washington D.C. in late April under the auspices of the American Psychological Association’s visitors program for representatives of recently established national psychological societies. This program is designed to provide individualized information helpful for the operation and goals of new societies. Hassan…
Southeast Asia President Elect Pirkko Lahti, Executive Director of the Finnish Mental Health Association,. went to New York in early June as a member of the Finnish Government’s delegation attending the Beijing Plus Five General Assembly Session at the United Nations. From there she flew to the Philippines, following an unexpected request from her government…
Taiwan The Mental Health Association in Taiwan organized a proclamation-signing ceremony at the National Normal University on 9 October, at which about 40 government organizations and NGOs were represented. A special Declaration of Mental Health Human Rights was prepared, and information events were held for numerous target groups (workers; industrial and other managers; women; children;…
Eastern Mediterranean Region Hassan Kassim Khan, Organizer of the Symposium International Symposium in Yemen An International Symposium on Behavioral Sciences and Millennium Challenges in Developing Countries, was held from 7-9 March 2000 under the auspices of the Eastern Mediterranean Region of WFMH at the University of Aden, Yemen. The Symposium was organized by Regional Vice…