WFMH Newsletter ~Fourth Quarter 1999~ Message from the President: Ahmed El Azayem, Egypt International Conference on “Media for Social Change”

Vancouver World Congress The Federation’s biennial World Congress took place in Vancouver, Canada on 22-27 July 2001. This was a meeting place for overlapping interests, attended by 1,200 people from over 60 countries. Chunilal Roy was chair of the organizing committee. Many viewpoints were represented and many topics addressed in the program, while the spacious…

Preston Garrison to Lead WFMH Message from the WFMH President My dear readers, World Mental Health Day, founded by WFMH, was celebrated on 10 October in many countries. The theme was “The Effects of Trauma and Violence on Children and Adolescents.” Children are exposed to violence through having to live amidst armed conflicts; they see…

~World Mental Health Day Report 1999~ UNITED NATIONSUN NY At United Nations headquarters in New York, the NGO Committee on Mental Health (chaired by WFMH Main Representative Nancy Wallace) and the NGO Committee on Ageing collaborated with the New York office of WHO and the UN Department of Public Information to present a three-hour World…

Notes from the WFMH Collaborating Centers In recent correspondence with the Federation’s Secretariat WFMH Collaborating Centers described current issues in their work: Prof. Donna E. Stewart, Lillian Love Chair in Women’s Health at the University of Toronto, Canada, linked good mental health for women with good physical health and social justice. She included among important…

WFMH Newsletter ~First Quarter 2000~ Message from the President: Ahmed El Azayem, Egypt At the United Nations