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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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Manyatera Patience

The constitution of Zimbabwe in Section 73 accords all citizens the right to an environment not harmful to health or well-being.

Mohamed Abdulai Kamara

By controlling and managing chemicals, develop action and implementation plans, draft laws and enforcement, review Regulations and developing standards

Kenneth Davis

I am a policy and technical expert specializing in the role of science in shaping multilateral cooperation on the environment. Trained as a geologist, I began my career working on transboundary environmental issues as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine. After gaining experience on contaminated site remediation as a private consultant, I joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of International Affairs, where I served on the U.S. delegation negotiating the Minamata Convention on Mercury. In 2014, I joined the UNEP Chemicals and Waste Branch. My work includes managing projects on reducing mercury use in artisanal mining and other

Marina Olga Fernandez

I am Associate Researcher of CONICET at the Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Adetonah Sounkoura

GAPROFFA research works on chemicals contributes to the capacity building through awareness-raising, training, advocacy and research at 3 levels: At the Micro level: Target groups are the actors most exposed to chemicals. They are farmers, craftsmen, transporters and all the tradesmen, including women and youth. The messages sensitize these target groups on the rational using of chemicals in their activities because most of them are illiterate. At the Meso level: The target groups are extension agents, research assistants, technicians and. The Training of Trainers (ToT) is organized to equip these agents to take over and reach many people. These trained

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