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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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Check our calendar of events where discussions and decisions are taken to shape the future of chemicals and their impact in our environment and health

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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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Alexandra Caterbow

Health and Environment Justice Support (HEJSupport) aims to achieve a healthy environment and environmental justice for affected people.

Gonzalo Alberto Forero Buitrago

By knowing statistics, it is feasible to develop an efficient management strategy to achieve the circular economy of e-waste, and therefore it is extremely important to work on the formalization of the value chain in order to know the statistics a

Maxine Brassell

I am currently working as a research assistant in the Environmental Health Division in UCT's School of Public Health and Family Medicine. I work on a number of projects that aim at capacity building and knowledge management of sound chemical management, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. My main speciality within public health is environmental health and so our work focuses on improving health through addressing environmental exposures that may negatively impact the health of the communities we work with.

Luz Angela Luna Castillo

Contributes to the identification of strategies and opportunities focused on circular economy in the electronic sector, in order to strengthen cooperation synergies between Latin American countries that promote interactions between actors in the value chain and government entities, with the aim of reducing the negative impacts that are generated, from the extraction of materials to the inappropriate disposal of wastes that have potential for use, in addition to the proper handling of hazardous chemical substances.

Muhammad Farooq

It is submitted that in order to highlight the issue of electronic waste (e-waste), its hazardous effects on health & environment as well as loss of precious resources and awareness for the general public about this growing challenge in the field

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