Convegno – Un silenzio mortale: rompere con l’impunità dell’Eternit
Martedì 16 marzo 2010
Centro Congressi Regione Piemonte TORINO (Cso Stati Uniti)
Le vittime dell’amianto e le associazioni contro l’amianto coordinate dall’ IBAN (International Ban Asbestos Network) si ritrovano per portare da tutto il mondo, in contemporanea con il processo di Torino, le loro testimonianze.
La tragedia dell’amianto e le responsabilità dell’Eternit sono planetarie.
Ecco il programma dell’evento:
Tuesday March 16, 2010
9h Presentation : Annie Thébaud-Mony – International Ban Asbestos Network
Intervention of the officials :
Mercedes Bresso, chairman of the Piemont Region
Eleonora Artesio, Secretary of health of Piemont Region
9h30 Intervention of Bruno Pesce – Association of victims families, Casale Monferrato (Italy)
10h Davide Petrini, Doctor in criminal law, Piemont University, victims ‘ lawyer “The Eternit trial is at the begining, how will it end?”
10h30 Session I : Eternit & the epidemics of asbestos related diseases in Europe
Chair : Fulvio Aurora, Asbestos Exposed people Association, Italy
Round table – Eternit, history, Asbestos Issues and the Citizens’ Struggle in Europe,
Eric Jonckheere, Eternit victims’Association (ABEVA) in Belgium; Franco Basciani ex-factory Eternit of Niederurnen (Suisse); Tinka de Bruin & Bob Ruers, Etenit victims’Association Netherland; Jean Marie Birbès, Eternit victims’Association, Albi (France) ; Angel Carcoba, Comiciones operarias (Espagne), Laurent Vogel, European Trade Union Institute, Bruxelles
12h15 Session II: Eternit & the epidemics of asbestos related diseases in Latin America
Chair : Annie Thébaud-Mony, International Ban Asbestos Network
Round Table: Eternit, history, Asbestos Issues and the Citizens’ Struggle in Latin America
Mauro Menezes, ABREA (Brazilian Association of the Asbestos Exposed)
Eva Delgado, Asociacion frente al asbesto – Perou;
13h15 Presentation of a documentare film in progress on Eternit and the trial Niccolo Bruna and Andrea Prandstraller
13h30 : Lunch
14h30 Session III: Eternit & the epidemics of asbestos related diseases in Asia
Chair : Laurie Kazan–Allen, International Ban Asbestos Secretariat -London
14h45 Takehiko Murayama, Ban Asbestos Network Japan (BANJAN), Japan Occupationa, Safety and Health Resource Center (JOSHRC), Japan
15h15 Madhumita Dutta, Corporate Accountability Desk -The Other Media, India
15H45 Sanjiv Pandita, Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC), Asian Ban Asbestos Network, Hong Kong, China
16h15 Debate
17h15 Presentation & discussion of the « Turin Appeal » by the International Ban Asbestos
Network, appeal which will be adopted at the end of this meeting, 17 years after the “Milan Appeal” of the conference held in 1993 & 16 years after the “São Paulo Appeal” which founded the International Ban Asbestos Network.






