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Here you can access useful resources, read articles, find out about latest events, meet people and join our communities of practice on the SAICM emerging chemical policy issues

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Our Communities of Practice are spaces of exchange on the sound management of chemicals and waste among representatives from academia, governments, industry, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, consumers, and citizens

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Keep updated on news on chemicals of concern as well as challenges and achievements to progress towards the SDGs

Chemicals in products

Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals

Hazardous chemicals in electronics

Highly Hazardous Pesticides

Lead in paint

Nanotechnology

Perfluorinated Chemicals

Pharmaceutical pollutants

Policy brief

A review of PFAS as a Chemical Class in the Textiles Sector

For over a decade, under both SAICM and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), the class of chemicals known as PFAS is gaining increasing international attention.

Policy Document

Global elimination of lead paint: why and how countries should take action

Lead has toxic effects on almost all body systems and is especially harmful for children and pregnant women. Lead paint is an avoidable source of exposure to lead.

Report

Women, Chemicals and the SDGs

Gender Review Mapping with a Focus on Women and Chemicals: Impact of Emerging Policy Issues and the Relevance for the Sustainable Development Goals

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People working for a healthier environment

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Yahya Khamis Msangi

I train workers, farmers and young people on sound management of chemicals in order to protect their health and their environment. I also participate in analysis of policies and investment projects to ensure they support healthy living and environment. I am also involved in the study on chemical safety in Africa - one such study was recently published by the University of Eastern Finland and it was on the challenges of accessing justice facing people in Africa from dumping of toxic waste in the continent. I also monitor implementation of MEAs in the region on behalf of Workers and Trade

Alois Mathew Ngonyani

Mr. Ngonyani, is a seasoned expert with 15 years of professional experience, in the field of analytical chemistry, laboratory analysis of chemicals including analysis of Lead in Paints as well as analysis of Lead in Occupational health samples.

Dawda Badgie

My work at the environment agency is essentially involved in the general protection of the environment from all kinds of pollution that affect human health and other related living thing and advocate for sustainable management of our this important planet earth.

Elisabeth Wilcox-Citta

Through the Environmental Health & Safety office at Colorado School of Mines, all chemical requisitions are approved and ordered.

Daniela Murcia Rojas

By formulating the circularity roadmap for the electronics sector in the Latin American and Caribbean region, it will be possible to establish a current status of this in the region.As a result, the strengths and weaknesses of the selected countries can be defined, including current regulations and the management of chemicals of concern, in order to provide a series of recommendations that propose strategies, synergies and others, around the opportunity to develop circularity in the different phases of the value chain.

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