This booklet is a summary of the report entitled El Endosulfán y sus Alternativas en América Latina I y II (Endosulfan and its Alternatives in Latin America I and II), written by members of the Action Network on Pesticides and their Alternatives in Latin America (Red de Acción sobre Plaguicidas y sus Alternativas en América Latina—RAP-AL).
This document from IPEN's Dioxin Working Group provides a briefing on the Dioxin Toolkit as of its writing, including background and the updates provided by expert working groups.
This brochure from IPEN's Community Monitoring Working Group describes how health professionals can be work to learn about and inform patients about chemical exposures that have negative health effects.
Thsi document from IPEN's Community Monitoring Working Group provides a definition of biomonitoring and discusses uses, actions, and ethical issues related to biomonitoring for toxic chemicals.
This brochure from IPEN's Community Monitoring Working Group describes how the community can inexpensively monitor the air, water, soil, plants and wildlife for toxic chemicals in their surroundings, and how this monitoring can be used among public interest groups to lobby governments and decision makers.
This document describe the negative health effects of toxic chemicals on developing children and steps communities can take to protect children against harm.
This brochure from IPEN's Community Monitoring Working Group in 2008 lists and describes many chemicals not included in the original Stockholm Convention that have similar negative environmental effects, and makes a case for their inclusion in the future.
The report entitled El Endosulfán y sus Alternativas en América Latina I y II (Endosulfan and its Alternatives in Latin America I and II), written by members of the Action Network on Pesticides and their Alternatives in Latin America (Red de Acción sobre Plaguicidas y sus Alternativas en América Latina—RAP-AL), illustrates the variety of alternatives to endosulfan beyond the chemical substitution approach that means go beyond chemical pesticides that are less toxic and less persistent, but also agroecological and organic agricultural practices used in growing soybeans, coffee, vegetable
