In today's world, our homes are increasingly filled with a myriad of chemicals and toxins that can have profound impacts on the health and development of our little ones. It is up to women to take the lead in identifying and eliminating these hidden dangers to create a true haven for our children.
A comprehensive new report “Waste incineration and the Environment” released today by Arnika, the Centre for Environment Justice and Development (CEJAD) in Kenya, Centre de Recherche et d‘Education pour le Développement (CREPD) in Cameroon, Toxics Free Australia (TFA), and IPEN finds that burning waste, especially plastics, produces unsustainable and unmanageable hazardous air emissions and large amounts of highly toxic solid residues (ash), concluding that alternatives to incineration should
Yuyun will join Co-Chair Pamela Miller as Tadesse Amera Steps Down
Wednesday, 14 August 2024
See Pamela Miller's tribute to Tadesse and welcome to Yuyun here.
Yuyun Ismawati, a dedicated Indonesian national with over thirty years of work in advocacy for environmental health and for strong policies on chemicals and waste, has been elected as IPEN Co-Chair, the key leadership position in the global network. Yuyun, who received the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in 2009 for her groundbreaking work on reducing pollution and waste, will share chairing responsibilities with Co-Chair Pamela Miller of Alaska Community Action on Toxics. IPEN, a network of over 600 public interest environmental health groups in more than 125 countries, works to eliminate threats to health and the environment from the world’s most harmful chemicals, with the goal of a toxics-free future for all.
Words cannot adequately express the significance of Tadesse’s past six years as Co-Chair of IPEN. He is a shining star and global leader who is selflessly and earnestly dedicated to protecting our beautiful, fragile world. Tadesse is wise, compassionate, and a consummate diplomat.
Experts Convene to Address Lead Poisoning Crisis in South Asia
Thursday, 18 July 2024
New Delhi, June 25, 2024 - The Advanced Study Institute of Asia (ASIA) at SGT University, in collaboration with the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) of the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET), hosted a two-part colloquia on June 25, 2024 to tackle the pressing issue of lead poisoning in South Asia.
28 June 2024, Quezon City, Philippines. As the effects of the triple planetary crisis of climate emergency, collapse of biodiversity and pervasive pollution are brought to light, civil society groups called on duty-bearers, governments and industries in particular, to take decisive measures that will protect and advance children’s environmental rights with the meaningful participation of children and their supporters.
The fourteenth meeting of the Basel Convention Open-ended Working Group takes place from Tuesday, 25 June to Friday, 28 June 2024. See information on the meeting from UNEP here.
IPEN's Opening Intervention
Presented by Lee Bell, IPEN Technical and Policy Advisor, June 26, 2024
