States must stop exporting unwanted toxic chemicals to poorer countries

Pleased to share a statement calling for an end to this abhorrent practice, delighted see endorsed by 35 other @UN_SPExperts of the UN Human Rights Council
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=26063&LangID=E #HRC44
States must stop exporting unwanted toxic chemicals to poorer countriesPleased to share a statement calling for an end to this abhorrent practice, delighted see endorsed by 35 other @UN_SPExperts of the UN Human Rights Council https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=26063&LangID=E #HRC44
States must stop exporting unwanted toxic chemicals to poorer countriesPleased to share a statement calling for an end to this abhorrent practice, delighted see endorsed by 35 other @UN_SPExperts of the UN Human Rights Council https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=26063&LangID=E #HRC44
The racialised nature of these standards must not be ignored.

Governments in North America & Europe continue to allow their businesses to export chemicals banned from use to countries in #Asia, #Africa, & #LatinAmerica where the risks are immensely magnified
#DoubleStandards
For example, this #pesticide - banned for health & enviro. reasons by 27+ European countries - remarkably becomes safer in #Brazil, #Colombia, #DominicanRepublic, #Ecuador, #Guatemala, #India, #Indonesia, #Mexico, & #SouthAfrica

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/20/business/paraquat-weed-killer-pesticide.html @publiceye_ch @Syngenta
This Pesticide Is Prohibited in Britain. Why Is It Still Being Exported?

Paraquat, one of many pesticides that can’t be used in Europe but is sold in the United States and elsewhere, has been linked to Parkinson’s disease in a growing body of research.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/20/business/paraquat-weed-killer-pesticide.html
The arguments by industry are fully of deceit -- e.g. that people in countries outside Canada & the US demand products suspected of causing #cancer, according to @JNJCares

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-johnson-johnson-babypowder/nonprofits-urge-johnson-johnson-to-halt-sales-of-baby-powder-globally-idUSKBN24935C @BW4WLA #racism
Nonprofits urge Johnson & Johnson to halt sales of Baby Powder globally

More than 170 nonprofit groups on Wednesday called for Johnson & Johnson to stop selling its talc-based Johnson’s Baby Powder world-wide, citing concerns that it contains cancer-causing asbestos,...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-johnson-johnson-babypowder/nonprofits-urge-johnson-johnson-to-halt-sales-of-baby-powder-globally-idUSKBN24935C
#France & #African countries party to the Bamako Convention have taken inspirational steps to address this form of environmental injustice 👏👏👏

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/31/toxic-pesticides-made-france-banned-europe-must-not-sold-abroad/ @FranceONUGeneve @AfricanUnionUN
Toxic pesticides made in France and banned in Europe 'must not be sold abroad', court rules

France’s constitutional council has issued a landmark ruling against companies selling pesticides banned in the EU in countries where they are still permitted on the grounds that “protecting the...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/31/toxic-pesticides-made-france-banned-europe-must-not-sold-abroad/
But it is long overdue that other countries join them in the effort to end this form of #discrimination, an isdiuous attack on the #HumanRights to a healthy environment & safe work
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