In this GFN Voices episode, advocates from across Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world joined us at #GFN25 to highlight the regional complexities that need to be overcome, and the ways the THR community is coming together to do just that.
Transcription:
00:09 - 00:17
[Joanna Junak]
Why did you decide to come to the GFN conference?
00:18 - 00:54
[Boris Platonoff]
It's where I can find information. New ideas to be able to apply in the policies that we have, which is to do activism so that people have options to have a better quality of life, doing what they like, consuming what they like, in this case nicotine. So every year that I have the opportunity to come here, it helps me to have more information for what I do in my country. which is activism, for the defense of what vaping is.
00:54 - 01:35
[Juan Facundo Teme]
It's the fourth time I'm attending the GFN. The truth is that I always decide to come because it's the meeting point with all the activists around the world. The content of the conference is really impressive, it helps us to put ourselves in context, although most of us know the work of all, but it puts us in focus and focuses more on what is happening in each country, especially in the details, and it nourishes us a lot as activists on an individual level and to apply them and take all those experiences to our country.
01:36 - 02:10
[Aylen Van Isseldyk]
Good morning. First of all, I'm from Argentina. Five years ago we came to the GFN. I'm very happy. Here you learn a lot. It's not very human. So it's always about human regulations, vaping and learning, and that the user, like us, has the weapon of information when it comes to getting us out of here and being able to take them to our countries.
02:10 - 02:18
[Ivan Noriega]
Mainly because it's a meeting point where I can share my knowledge, acquire new ones and get new points of view on the damage collection.
02:19 - 02:23
[Joanna Junak]
Which session is the most important for you?
02:23 - 02:37
[Ivan Noriega]
Well, this year I have seen a laboratory of sciences. Above all, the one I am most interested in is the focus of communication regarding damage reduction.
02:37 - 03:16
[Diego Verrastro]
This year, GFN addressed a very important issue, which is communication. and consider if we are communicating correctly, if this is the right way or if we should change. My personal opinion is that we should have other approaches with respect to the communication of the THR message. Make it simpler, more friendly, more empathetic, at the risk of losing some nuances. But I think it is the way, because the world is changing the way in which it is communicating. We must change at the same time.