2008

• Ecuador: Social and environmental impacts of oil palm

• Malaysia: Severe health effects of pesticides on workers in oil palm plantations

2007

• Argentina: Chaco – land clearance, undernutrition and death

• Brazil: Women and Eucaliptus; stories of life and resistance

• Kenya: Pan Paper plans to expand its polluting operations

• Working conditions on tree plantations: A health issue

• Uruguay: The sad situation of tree plantation workers

• South Africa: Working conditions and the contract labour system in timber plantations

• Malaysia: “Cheap” Paraquat at the expense of the workers’ health

• Central Africa: Deforestation brings HIV/AIDS to indigenous communities, mainly women 
• Central African Indigenous Peoples: Losing their health along with their forest
• Cameroon: The tough reality in oil palm plantations

2005

• Cultural links to the forest: The web of health
• Ecuador: Yasuni Park, oil and indigenous resistance

2004

• Kenya: Pan African Paper Mills spread sickness
• There’s something stinking in southern Chile
• Women and Knowledge of Medicinal Forest Plants
• Women Plantation Workers Poisoned and Silenced

2003

• Thailand: Deadly lead mines poisoning ethnic communities

2000

• Malawi: forests, health and life

Special Bulletin Nº 97 - August 2005 (complete version)

People rarely relate forests with health issues. At the most, forests –particularly in tropical areas- are perceived as a source of present and future medicines that can provide cure for many human diseases. Given the recent meeting in Ecuador of the Second People’s Health Assembly, we decided that this was a good opportunity for dedicating a full WRM bulletin to share information on this issue. We hope that the information provided will serve to generate awareness on the importance of forests for human health and on the impacts that deforestation, forest degradation and monoculture tree plantations have on the health of millions of people worldwide.

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• Salud con una mirada desde lo Femenino - Por Sandra Isabel Payán Gómez

LINKS

The People’s Health Assembly-2
http://phmovement.org/pha2/index.php