Health risks from toxic farm chemicals paraquat, chlorpyrifos, and phorate prompt immediate nationwide ban as global community calls for phasing out all HHPs by 2035
Saturday, 07 December 2024
Kathmandu, Nepal - The Center for Public Health and Environmental Development (CEPHED) and the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) welcome the decision by the government of Nepal last week to ban three highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) long linked to serious health and environmental concerns. The production, sale, use, and trade of three farm chemicals, chlorpyrifos, phorate, and paraquat is banned immediately, according to the decision by the country’s Pesticide Management Committee.
The Nepali decision follows the September 2023 founding of the Global Framework on Chemicals (GFC), which initiated a collaborative Global Alliance on HHPs, with a goal of phasing out all HHPs by 2035. The health risks of the three pesticides banned by Nepal are indicative of the risks from HHPs:
“We have long worked to document the health and environmental threats from these harmful farm chemicals, so we fully support and applaud the decision to protect public health and the environment with this strong regulation,” said Ram Charitra Sah, Executive Director and Environmental Scientist at CEPHED. “By banning these chemicals, Nepal is leading the global community and fulfilling our national obligation toward the realization of the new GFC policy on HHPs and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). We expect prompt and assertive implementation of this ban throughout Nepal.”
Lia Giraldo da Silva Augusto – Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva (ABRASCO) / Nadia Spada Fiori – Departamento de Medicina Social, Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel)
Os agrotóxicos são substancias químicas usadas para o controle de insetos, fungos e plantas considerados indesejados na agricultura ou dentro de nossas próprias casas. Entretanto, além de causarem a morte destes organismos vivos, também causam sérios problemas a saúde das pessoas.
Human Rights Online Philippines Recognizes EcoWaste for Photos of Basketball Players Endorsing Lead-Safe Paints for Children’s Health
Sunday, 01 December 2024
Quezon City. The EcoWaste Coalition, an advocacy organization for a zero waste and toxics-free society, expressed its utmost gratitude to the online community for recognizing it as one of the winners of the 14th Human Rights Pinduteros Choice Awards.
The yearly event organized by the Human Rights Online Philippines (HRonlinePH) celebrates human rights defenders who utilize the Internet to inform, inspire, and mobilize the public in support of human rights.
IPEN develops policy documents on the meeting agenda and emerging issues, as well as briefing papers, reports, and other materials.for each of he Plastics Treaty negotiating sessions. For the INC-5 meeting in Busan, Korea our materials include:
IPEN's reactions to the Chair's non paper;
IPEN Quick Views
Briefings on the industry's fake recycling math, why a "products only" approach will not protect health from toxic plastic chemicals, and how refuse derived fuel creates a hidden trade in plastic waste.
Our Plastic FAQs and briefing on how a Plastics Treaty can address hazardous plastic chemicals.
Find links to all of these reosurces and more on our INC-5 page.
IPEN members researched the situation in their countries around plastic waste fuels, also called refuse derived fuel or RDF. Below are country-based reports with the results from each project.
