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The Board of the Centre for Development Research (IDRC) and its President, Ms. Barbara McDougall, who shared agenda while working as Director of Imperial Tobacco, chose the path of "nothing happened here" to try to evade responsibility lay at the same table for the Research International Tobacco Control (RITC) and interests of the British American Tobacco (BAT).
In an open letter to IDRC partners and people interested in controlling the snuff of April 29, 2010, rejects the presence of any conflict of interest going to the record that the appointment of Barbara McDougall was prior to the approval of the 5.3 d uidelines and that his term as Minister of Imperial Tobacco ended in March 2010.
Grave how you look at this behavior, which questions the ethical basis that is identified as program mission RITC: "create a strong research base, funding and knowledge to develop effective policies and programs for the control of snuff, which will minimize the threat to health and human development which represent the production and consumption of snuff in countries developing. "
I want to see IDRC officials in a meeting with social organizations of Latin America and Africa, trying to explain that the guidelines of 5.3 does not apply to Barbara McDougall or whatever it is, that Framework Convention for the Control of Snuff, including Article 5.3, operates in a manner for President and otherwise to other men and governments. In our opinion, is disrespectful to the organizations for many years relied in good faith in the policy and programmatic guidance of IDRC.
IDRC must understand that the solution is not, as stated in its Charter, to offer new resources to compensate for that in good time took the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This is not a money problem. Southern organizations can not define or define their partnerships on the basis of access to financing. The force that has guided the snuff-control programs and the implementation of the FCTC is and will be an ethical commitment the right to health and life.
Africa has set an example and claimed a partial victory to make the Gates Foundation evades IDRC management resources for the control of snuff (5.2 million). Latin America in general has been quiet A lack of political acumen to solve this kind of trance? We hope this is just. It would be unfortunate to wait for the Conference of the Parties in Uruguay without a solution, since this is a compelling theme, especially after what happened in the Geneva meeting on the Illicit Trade Protocol (INB-4: 14 - 21 March 2010), which defended Canada the tobacco industry presence at the meeting, objecting to its exclusion based on "transparency in the negotiation", accepting that his government is meeting with industry and indicating that "perhaps in other countries the industry is not honored."
follow the course of events waiting to succeed the principles of the FCTC and demand principles of legality, ethics and common sense Ms. Barbara McDougall must leave IDRC, there is no other way!
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