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 | | The Congress, organised for the first time in Asia, was also the first to be hosted by a non-governmental organisation, Sneha, the Chennai-based NGO working in the field of suicide prevention (Frontline, September 28, 2001). |
 | | The Congress was co-sponsored by the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Indian Psychiatry Society, the Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF), the Indian Association of Suicidology and Befrienders International, an international NGO active in the field of suicide prevention. |
 | | In his presidential address at the Congress, De Leo stressed the "cross-cultural" dimensions of suicidal behaviour and referred to the enduring relevance of Emile Durkheim's sociological perspective on suicides in Europe, made in his study, Suicide: A Study in Sociology, published in 1897. |
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