Minamata Convention COP-5 kicks-off on Monday in Switzerland
Post Views: 536 More than eight hundred participants – including Parties’ representatives, non-parties governments, intergovernmental organizations, UN bodies and NGOs
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HEALTH
SRADev scales up awareness campaign on lead free paint
Post Views: 493 Apparently due to the success recorded during the pilot stage of an awareness campaign project that started
Read moreWHO calls for immediate release of hostages taken by Hamas
Post Views: 478 The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday 25 October 2023 called immediate release of all the hostages,
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Toxic mercury cosmetics still marketed as a ‘solution’ to dark skin -Report
Post Views: 513 Despite being banned by a global treaty, mercury-added skin lightening products (SLPs) are still sold by some
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Minamata Convention: A Decade of Global Commitment to Make Mercury History
Post Views: 475 Ten years ago, on October 10, 2013, the international community took a key step forward by signing
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Minamata Convention chief welcomes adoption of Global Framework on Chemicals
Post Views: 525 At the fifth International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5) in Bonn, Germany, Executive Secretary Monika Stankiewicz, Minamata
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Kenya emerges 147th Party to Minamata Convention on mercury
Post Views: 509 The government of Kenya on Friday 22 September 2023 deposited her instrument of ratification, becoming as a
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Stakeholders seek stand-alone Sanitation and Hygiene Policy
Post Views: 509 Stakeholders in the water, environment and health sector have called for a standard stand-alone Sanitation and Hygiene
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Minamata Convention chief pays tribute in visit to Minamata Bay
Post Views: 537 Almost ten years after the Minamata Convention on Mercury was signed in Japan, the Executive Secretary of
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Off-track cervical cancer progress risks 70 000 deaths every year in Africa-WHO
Post Views: 553 About 70 000 cervical cancer deaths could be averted annually in the African region if the efforts
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