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Welcome
The International Institute of Concern for Public Health has a new website at: http://concernforhealth.org
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Welcome to the IICPH.
December 4, 2011
Our Fall 2011 newsletter is now available. Printed copies will soon be mailed to our subscribers. Want...
December 1, 2011
Last year at this time, I spoke about hope for the future. But guess what! Things got worse! The one...
December 1, 2011
Until May 12, 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) always followed the lead of the International Atomic Energy Agency...
December 1, 2011
The Canadian Environmental Network/ Rėseau canadien de l’environnement (RCEN) is one of Canada’s oldest, largest, and most well-respected public...
December 1, 2011
On Nov. 6, 2011 the Washington Post quoted statements from an IAEA Report that indicated that know-how for the...
December 1, 2011
Dr. Rosalie Bertell and IICPH have been saddened by the death of Prof. Rudi H. Nussbaum, a dear colleague...
December 1, 2011
Aliss Terpstra, one of our directors and also secretary of the IICPH board, has been campaigning for a number...
December 1, 2011
The Canadian TV program The Nature of Things, hosted by David Suzuki, recently extolled the advantages of nanoparticles for curative...
December 1, 2011
Since the catastrophic accident at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, independent investigations of safety issues are revealing more and more little-known...
December 1, 2011
The conference organized by the Canadian Nuclear Society (CNS) dealt with all forms of radioactive waste and provided an...
December 1, 2011
The growing demands for aggregate materials in Ontario has led governments and aggregate and construction industries to explore various methods...
December 1, 2011
In Niagara Falls, New York, there are areas of nuclear waste contamination including highways and byways. According to a recently...
December 1, 2011
Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) Briefing Paper
The Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) organization, based in Maryland,...
December 1, 2011
In 1988 while running for reelection, the then-Minister of Defence Perrin Beatty vowed to include nuclear submarines in Canada’s arsenal....
October 12, 2011
Dear Dr. Chan:
For those of us in the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) community that have been working for so many...
April 12, 2011
For immediate release
Download as a PDF
In response to the rising possibility of a disaster greater than Chernobyl, the...
April 6, 2011
For Immediate Release
The people of New Brunswick are as concerned about the safety of nuclear power plants as everyone else...
March 28, 2011
The 60 stations which were set up to monitor the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty are detecting global effects of the Fukushima...
March 16, 2011
The International Institute of Concern for Public Health (IICPH) is...
February 22, 2011
Dear Mr. Graham;
This written submission summarizes the issues that IICPH wishes to raise as an Intervenor at the...
September 17, 2010
Please sign on and support this important statement from the Passamaquoddy people.
Thank you for your support.
221 signatures so far.
March 27, 2011
We just started a new “news” section, accessible from the Nuclear News link on the right-hand side, on the...
April 24, 2010
The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Alice Stewart and the Secrets of Radiation. By Gayle Greene. The University of Michigan Press. 1999. 321pp.
June 25, 2010
The recent earthquake on Wednesday, June 23, 2010, reminds us that the earthquake fault line still exists very close to...
June 11, 2010
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) was authorized to find a location for a deep geologic repository for nuclear...
March 20, 2011
Dear Friends and Residents of this interdependent global home,
I cannot give magical answers to everyone’s needs at this time of...
February 27, 2011
The Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility put out a list of 15 Facts About Radioactive Steam Generators. It...
October 28, 2010
Open letter to the leaders of Nunavut
On the health implications of opening the territory to uranium mining
To: Members of the...
October 17, 2010
Dear Friends,
I have long been concerned about the suicides and abnormal behavior of the returning veterans. I found that nano...
June 13, 2010
The IICPH had also asked for an extension to properly review the CNSC’s Tritium Studies Project, but it...
June 13, 2010
First Nations Demand Mining Reform in Wake of Harvard Law Report
Independent human rights study details unjust B.C and federal...
June 13, 2010
Réseau “Sortir du nucléaire”
French Nuclear Phaseout Network
Press release – Urgent
Revelations from an EDF insider : EPR...
June 12, 2010
Advertising Standards Canada has just posted a decision to its
website declaring that it is inaccurate and unsupportable to call...
June 8, 2010
In his 2002 address to the Pontifical Council of Pastoral Health Care, Pope Jean Paul II warned of the “Promethean...
May 30, 2010
United Nations, New York, 2010-05-10
Non-governmental organizations at the NPT Abolition Caucus express dismay at the unashamed pushing of a...
May 27, 2010
The IICPH wrote to the CNSC regarding SRBT’s license renewal and presented at the May 19, 2010...
May 21, 2010
Since the NPT deals with the right of nations to have access to nuclear power, this issue was discussed...
April 20, 2010
IICPH flyer for the Halton Eco-Festival, 17-18 April 2010
April 20, 2010
IICPH flyer for the Halton Eco-Festival, 17-18 April 2010
April 16, 2010
This series of articles in the Watershed Sentinel tracks all aspects of uranium in Canada from mining and milling, to...
February 1, 2010
Since about 1990, the international research community has spent more time looking at lower dose rate health effects. Many of these scientists have been surprised to discover effects such as genomic instability, the bystander effect, an increase in Relative Biological Effect (RBE), mini-satellite damage and non-homogeneous distribution of radionuclides.
