Tag: FCTC COP
Progress Shamed, WHO Exposed: How Harm Reduction Challenged COP’s Backwards Agenda...
As always, the mood heading into COP11 was tense, and not only because of the high-stakes negotiations ahead. In the weeks before delegates descended...
Punished for Success? New Zealand’s “Dirty Ashtray” Reveals The FCTC’s Embedded...
The global tobacco-control community is outraged, as New Zealand — long regarded as one of the world’s most innovative and effective leaders in reducing...
The Fight for Evidence-Based Tobacco Control: What we know about COP11...
The ongoing Eleventh Conference of the Parties (COP11) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), currently being held in Geneva from 17–22...
Two Major Powers With Contrasting Plans for COP11: Does THR Stand...
As delegates gather in Geneva for the infamous 11th Conference of the Parties (COP-11) to the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control...
Leaked WHO Documents Uncover Europe’s New Senseless Nicotine War
The draft suggests that Brussels intends to classify all non-combustible nicotine products—vapes, heated tobacco, and nicotine pouches—under the same public health framework as combustible...
More of the Same: COP11 Seems Headed to the Usual Closed...
With just 100 days remaining before the World Health Organization’s (WHO) next global tobacco control summit, concerns are mounting that COP11 will once again...
Censored Voices, Ignored Science: The Fight for Evidence-Based Tobacco Harm Reduction
As the global tobacco control debate intensifies, the Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA) is sounding the alarm over growing foreign...
COP10: What Do We Know About What Took Place?
Through the years, COP has conistently excluded tobacco harm reduction (THR) experts, including medical doctors and smoking cessation researchers, as well as consumers and...
