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Honoring Minamata

Welcome to IPEN’s Minamata page. Through this page you can show your solidarity with the victims of the Minamata disaster by adding your signature to the “Honoring Minamata Solidarity Statement.”

To read a Japanese version of this webpage, click here.

Mercury Elimination

New Report: Global Mercury Hotspots

Monday, 18 February 2013

New Evidence Reveals Mercury Contamination Regularly Exceeds Health Advisory Levels in Humans and Fish Worldwide.

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Jan 19 - Mercury Treaty Not Likely to Reduce Global Releases: Proposed name dishonours victims of the Minamata tragedy (Spanish)

Eco Accord: Green Light to Mercury Pollution

Wednesday, 23 January 2013 - 12:00pm

Press release from Eco Accord on how the Mercury Treaty will not address mercury pollution.

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Mercury Treaty Does Not Address Pollution

Eco Accord: Green Light to Mercury Pollution

Wednesday, 23 January 2013

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Eco Accord: Green Light to Mercury Pollution

В середине января в Женеве страны согласовали текст юридически обязательного соглашения по ртути, получившего название Конвенции Минамата. Некоторые делегации празднуют победу – им удалось отстоять право промышленности продолжать загрязнять воздух, почву и воду этим токсичным металлом. По мнению IPEN (сети более 700 неправительственных организаций из 116 стран), осуществление настоящего соглашения приведет не к снижению, а к увеличению загрязнения ртутью.

Global Mercury Convention Completed Without Using the Term “Indigenous Peoples”

Press Release from IITC / CIEA

Sunday, 20 January 2013

Geneva, Switzerland — A long-awaited Legally Binding International Treaty on Mercury, officially named the “Minimata Convention on Mercury” was adopted by States at the 5th International Negotiating Committee session on the morning of January 19th, 2013.

The disproportionate impacts of mercury contamination suffered by Indigenous communities around the world were recognized in the preamble as a result of a monumental effort carried out by representatives of the Global Indigenous Peoples Caucus attending the INC5 negotiations.

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Mercury Treaty Not Likely to Reduce Global Releases

Saturday, 19 January 2013 - 11:00am

IPEN and other non-governmental organizations said that a new global mercury treaty is unlikely to reduce mercury releases, and may even result in increased mercury pollution at the close of treaty negotiations today. They also said that the proposed treaty name, “Minamata Convention”, dishonours those who continue to suffer from one of the worst cases of industrial mercury poisoning in the world.

This press release includes comments on the following:

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IPEN-mercury-pr-2013-01-19-en.pdf

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IPEN-mercury-pr-2013-01-19-jp.pdf

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IPEN-mercury-pr-2013-01-19-es.pdf

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Treaty Unlikely to Reduce Mercury Releases

Proposed name dishonours victims of the Minamata tragedy

Saturday, 19 January 2013

Press Releases:

Mercury Treaty Not Likely to Reduce Global Releases

Geneva — IPEN and other non-governmental organizations said that a new global mercury treaty is unlikely to reduce mercury releases, and may even result in increased mercury pollution at the close of treaty negotiations today. They also said that the proposed treaty name, “Minamata Convention”, dishonours those who continue to suffer from one of the worst cases of industrial mercury poisoning in the world.

Will Mercury Treaty Go Far Enough?

Concerns Growing that Mercury Treaty Will Not Reduce Global Emissions

Thursday, 17 January 2013

Press Releases:

Concerns Growing that Mercury Treaty Will Not Reduce Global Emissions

Geneva — IPEN and other non-governmental organizations expressed growing concerns today that an international mercury treaty, currently being negotiated in Geneva, is unlikely to reduce mercury emissions, and may even result in increased mercury pollution. IPEN is a coalition of non-governmental organizations representing 700 public-interest organizations in 116 countries.

INC5 (2013)

The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC5) to prepare a treaty on mercury took place 13 - 18 January, 2013 in Switzerland and numerous representatives from IPEN Participating Organizations took part. This was the last negotiating committee meeting for the treaty, and it reached agreement on the text of the new treaty.

Mercury Treaty Must Reduce Global Emissions

Sunday, 13 January 2013 - 11:00am

IPEN and Minamata survivor groups also asked delegates to name the treaty the “Mercury Convention”, instead of the proposed name, “Minamata Convention” – a reference to the site of the first well-‐ documented incident of large-‐scale mercury poisoning in a human population that occurred more than 50 years ago.

Document:

ipen-reduce-mercury-levels-pr-2013-01-13.pdf

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New Report: Global Mercury Hotspots

Eco Accord: Green Light to Mercury Pollution

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Mercury Treaty Does Not Address Pollution

Global Mercury Convention Completed Without Using the Term “Indigenous Peoples”

Mercury Treaty Not Likely to Reduce Global Releases

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Treaty Unlikely to Reduce Mercury Releases

Will Mercury Treaty Go Far Enough?

INC5 (2013)

Mercury Treaty Must Reduce Global Emissions

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