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Environmental Chemicals
The universal contamination of the eco-sphere by synthetic chemicals in the past 150 years or so has emerged as probably the single greatest threat to the health and survival of all living things on planet earth.
The IDEA has endorsed the Global Civil Society Committee statement on Chemicals Management and SAICM [Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management] to the UNEP Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum, to be held in February 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya
The Stockholm Convention signed in 2003 and ratified in May 2004 is the first international treaty aimed at eliminating certain known particularly toxic chemicals ["the Dirty Dozen"] from the global environment. The detailed provisions of this treaty are still under negotiation, with attempts by some groups/elements to reduce it's effects. See below the open letter by concerned NGOs to the Expert Group [EG] members, who are currently preparing recommendations for the 3rd Conference of the Parties [COP 3], which is pending. See also the paper on corporate involvement in the ongoing contamination.
'The Paris Appeal' is the outcome of an international meeting in Paris, France between doctors [including Nobel Prize winners in Medicine] scientists, jurists and concerned individuals in May 2004, and is an attempt to highlight the effects of this chemical contamination and the importance of taking urgent steps to halt the continuing deterioration.
WHO report tackles children's environmental health - 27th July 2007
Open Letter by Environmental NGOs to the members of the BAT/BEP Expert Group
Toxic Crimes - Examining corporate victimization of the general public
The Paris Appeal - International Declaration on diseases due to chemical pollution
Reinforcing the REACH program (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of CHemicals)