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Here is a list of articles that have appeared in the press or on the internet about the collective “IndependentWHO”, its actions and progress to date, and also about the health effects of radiation and WHO’s response to these effects.
The articles are arranged thematically and in the order that they appeared.

  1-  WHO, the IAEA and the agreement “WHA12-40” between them
  2-  WHO and its internal functioning
  3-  Chernobyl, past, present and future
  4-  Military uses of nuclear technology in the past and today
  5-  Civil uses of nuclear power
  6-  Health and safety for workers in the nuclear industry
  7-  Health effects of radioactive contamination
  8-  IndependentWHO’s actions

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WHO, the IAEA and the agreement “WHA12-40” between them

* IPS - Website - Spain - 26th and 27th April 2011 Read / Leer
“Fukushima, Chernobyl Raise Questions about WHO’s Role”
“Fukushima y Chernobyl desafían a la OMS”
   Gustavo Capdevila

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* The Indu - National daily - India - 26th April 2011 Read
“Twenty-five years after Chernobyl”   Vladimir Radyuhin Download  

* Life Upgrade.com - Website - United Kingdom - 20th April 2011 Read
“World Health Organisation ignores all Fukushima and Chernobyl children – Geneva April 26th 2011”
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* The Guardian - National daily - United Kingdom - 28th May 2009 Read
“Toxic link : The WHO and the IAEA”   Oliver Tickell Download    



WHO and its internal functioning

* Die Deutsche Welle - German foreign radio - Germany - 6th May 2011 Lesen
“WHO-Schlingerkurs bei radioaktiver Strahlung”   Andreas Zumach
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Chernobyl, past, present and future

* IPPNW - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War - Germany - April 2010 Read
“Health Effects of Chernobyl- 25 years after the reactor catastrophe”   IPPNW Download    

* BBC - TV International - United Kingdom - 19th April 2010 Read
“Chernobyl reactor cover funds sought at conference”   Anastasia Uspenskaya Download    

* The Guardian - National daily - United Kingdom - 10th January 2010 Read
“Chernobyl nuclear accident: figures for deaths and cancers still in dispute”   John Vidal Download    

* La Tribune - National daily - Canada - 26th June 2009 Read
“Children’s health in Byelorussia under-threat”   Isabelle Pion Download    

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Military uses of nuclear technology in the past and today

* Thruth-out.org - Information website - United Kingdom - 11 April 2011 Read
“Radiation, Japan and the Marshall Islands”   Glenn Alcalay Download  

* EuroNews - Information website - European - 14 April 2010 Read   Lire   Lesen   Leer
“Kazakhstan’s nuclear legacy ” Download
       

* AFP - Agence de Presse - France - 24th september 2009  
”Près de Tchernobyl, l’inquiétante fréquence des arythmies cardiaques”   Boris Cambreleng
(Around Chernobyl, alarming frequency of cardiac arythmia)
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* Revue XXI - National, three times a year - France - summer 2009  
“ 7.000 Hiroshima ”   Fabienne Lips-Dumas Download    

* Le Nouvel Observateur - National weekly - France - 23rd April 2009 Read
“La dernière guerre des sacrifiés”   Sophie des Deserts
(The last war of the sacrificed)
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Civil uses of nuclear power

* April 2011
 
* Global Research - Information website - Canada - 11th April 2011 Read
“Secret Weapons Program Inside Fukushima Nuclear Plant?”   Yoichi Shimatsu
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* The Guardian - National daily - United Kingdom - 1st April 2011 Read
“Nuclear’s green cheerleaders forget Chernobyl at our peril.”   John Vidal

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* Next-Up.org - Website - 27th March 2011  
“Inhaling even the tiniest particle, that’s the danger.”   Hirose Takashi and Douglas Lummis

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* Le Salzburger Nachrichten - National daily - Austria - 27th May 2009  
“Mehr Kinderkrebs rund um AKW”   Gerhard Schwischei Download  

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Health and safety for workers in the nuclear industry

* AremeniaNow - National weekly - Armenia - 28th April 2006 Read
“Healthy Concerns: Metsamor employees face risks, but need jobs”   Gayane Mkrtchyan Download    


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Health effects of radioactive contamination

* The Guardian - National daily - United Kingdom - 13th November 2009 Read
“My baby was blind. She couldn't eat or speak. I mourn for her – Iraqi families heartache over Falluja birth defects”   Martin Chulov

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* The Guardian - National daily - United Kingdom - 13th November 2009 Read
“Huge rise in birth defects in Falluja”   Martin Chulov Download    

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IndependentWHO’s actions

* IPS - Sitio - Spain - 05 May 2011 Read / Leer
“Nuclear Threat Draws WHO and Civil Society Closer”
“Amenaza nuclear lima asperezas entre OMS y sociedad civil”
   Gustavo Capdevila

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