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Oct 28, 2024
Six years after asbestos removal work began on Barcelona’s trains, the final asbestos-containing train on the L1 metro line was withdrawn from service. As well as being in the trains, asbestos was on roofs and in the tunnels and stations of the transport system. The company in charge says that 90% of the asbestos has been removed and that a €1.3 million (US$1.4m) contract has been signed to remove the remaining 10%. Dozens of employees and former employees have been diagnosed with asbestos-related diseases. See: El último viaje del tren con amianto: la L1 se despide del último convoy en la red metropolitana [The last journey of the train containing asbestos: the L1 says goodbye to the last convoy on the metropolitan network].
Oct 28, 2024
At an event on October 24, 2024 at the Legislative Palace in Mexico City, politicians, medical and scientific experts called for an immediate end to asbestos use in Mexico. During presentations, speakers considered the consequences of decades of asbestos consumption in Mexico and called for measures to quantify the consequences of toxic exposures amongst the population and a program to eradicate asbestos from the country’s infrastructure. See: Piden en foro de análisis sobre la Ley General de Erradicación del Asbesto que se apruebe una reforma legislativa en la materia [In an analysis forum on the General Law for the Eradication of Asbestos, approval is sought for legislative reform on the matter].
Oct 28, 2024
The commentary cited below by Professor Justin Stebbing of Anglia Ruskin University highlighted key aspects of the UK’s ongoing asbestos disaster, including the dangerous conditions found in the majority of UK schools caused by the presence of deteriorating asbestos-containing material. “It seems,” Professor Stebbing concluded that the “only way to finally eradicate the health risks of asbestos is to remove it from public buildings. Strict enforcement of regulations, public education, safe removal programs and support for those who’ve been exposed to asbestos will be essential in ensuring that asbestos related health risks are finally eradicated.” See: How asbestos exposure continues to be a dire health risk – 25 years after it was banned.
Oct 28, 2024
An event organized by asbestos industry stakeholders masquerading as an “international scientific and practical conference” took place earlier this month to spread industry propaganda regarding the safety of the “controlled use of asbestos.” Co-organized and attended by pro-asbestos proponents from Kazakhstan – the world’s second biggest asbestos-producer – delegates were told of the unique properties of chrysotile (white) asbestos, its regional availability and its comparatively low price. See: Здоровье и хризотил: научная конференция в Кыргызстане даст толчок исследованиям минеральных волокон в СНГ [Health and Chrysotile: Scientific Conference in Kyrgyzstan to Boost Mineral Fiber Research in CIS].
Oct 28, 2024
Once again, Turin prosecutors have returned to court to launch a legal action to hold to account the Swiss billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny for a death caused by toxic exposures which occurred at the Eternit company’s asbestos factory. In this case, the former asbestos entrepreneur and company owner/director is facing manslaughter charges over the 2008 death of a worker from Eternit’s Cavagnolo plant (Turin). Over the last 20 years, Schmidheiny has been charged over the asbestos deaths of workers and members of the public in multiple jurisdictions in Italy. See: Eternit bis: riparte a Torino il processo d'appello [Eternit bis: appeal trial starts again in Turin].
Oct 28, 2028
An asbestos scandal is unfolding in Paju City, in South Korea’s Gyeonggi Province regarding the improper removal and storage of toxic waste generated by asbestos decontamination work at local schools. Staff from Paju City Council and the Ministry of Employment and Labor are reviewing actions taken by an asbestos removal company and the Paju Education Support Office, both of which are suspected of violating mandatory regulations. See: 파주시 “학교지원센터, 석면해체작업·감리 부적절 정황 포착” [Paju City “School Support Center, Detection of Improper Asbestos Dismantling Work and Supervision”].
Oct 25, 2024
People in the Kazakh asbestos mining town of Zhitikar, in the Kostanay Region of northern Kazakhstan, are mobilizing over the elevated incidence of cancer in the region, which is home to the country’s only chrysotile (white) asbestos mining facility. The residents are demanding that the region be recognized by the authorities as an environmental disaster zone. Zhitikar has the fourth highest incidence of cancer in the region. In response to these concerns, the Ministry of Ecology issued instructions for inspections of the industrial facilities. See: Экокатастрофа: в Житикаре связали рак с добычей асбеста - обзор казпрессы [Eco-disaster: cancer linked to asbestos mining in Zhitikar].
Oct 25, 2024
An October 22, 2024 press release by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and an October 23, 2024 article in the Socialist Worker (‘Cost-cutting culture’ could unleash asbestos deaths ‘tsunami’ in schools) called on the new Labour Government to take immediate steps to address the national crisis caused by the continued presence of asbestos in UK schools, hospitals and other buildings. Steps being recommended included: the establishment of a central asbestos register, a national program for the phased eradication of asbestos from schools and the implementation of a rigorous system of inspection and supervision. See: Education unions position on asbestos.
Oct 25, 2024
The Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) once again fudged asbestos litigation intended to shut down mining operations that were in contravention of the country’s constitution as well as a nationwide asbestos ban. STF virtual proceedings began on October 18, 2024. On October 23, Minister (STF Judge) Alexandre de Moraes inexplicably interrupted the trial and said the decision would be postponed indefinitely even though it was known that the majority of STF judges supported shutting down the Goiás State asbestos mine owned by Eternit S.A. – Brazil’s one-time asbestos giant. See: Supremo Tribunal Federal (Supreme Court) Agenda – ADI 6200.
Oct 25, 2024
Workers who rehabilitated old asbestos mines and dumps in South Africa’s Limpopo Province between 2019 and 2022 accused their former employer: Lafata Mechanical Engineering, a contractor which had been appointed by the Department of Mineral Resources to undertake this work, of non-compliance with government requirements by failing to ensure that they received medical examinations at the end of their contracts. The workers say they feel abandoned and fear for their health as a result of having been involved with the asbestos clean-up operations. See: Asbestos mine workers demand justice over abandoned medical exams.
Oct 25, 2024
Millions of dollars have been allocated to undertake essential repairs in seven schools in Philadelphia. Some of the $175 million from the Pennsylvania State program will be used for repairs and renovations which will include the removal of asbestos and lead. According to the text of the article cited below, asbestos eradication will be undertaken in the hundred-year-old Overbrook High School in West Philadelphia as part of a $5 million refurbishment program of the school. Officials estimate that Philadelphia’s schools, which average 75 years old, need about $8 billion in building repairs. See: These 7 Philly schools just got millions in state money for these projects.
Oct 25, 2024
At the beginning of this month (October 2024), it was announced that Kazakhstan’s first facility for manufacturing asbestos-cement façade panels had begun operations. This development is part of the drive to increase domestic consumption of home-grown asbestos, most of which is exported to foreign countries as Kazakh consumers have little appetite for using products containing a known carcinogen. After Russia, Kazakhstan is the world’s second biggest asbestos-producing country. See: В Казахстане открыли первый завод по производству фиброцементных фасадных плит [The first plant for the production of fiber cement facade panels has opened in Kazakhstan].
Oct 22, 2024
A disturbing article by journalist Steve Boggan appeared in the Daily Mail on October 19, 2024. Boggan disclosed details of recent asbestos incidents in Parliament, all of which were in contravention of health and safety regulations. As a result of multiple failures to comply with mandatory guidelines, thousands of contractors, full-time and part-time Parliamentary members of staff as well as MPs could have been exposed to a known carcinogen. To protect workers and the public from future exposures, the newspaper has launched a campaign for the creation of a national asbestos database. See [subscription site]: Exposed. How the Palace of Westminster is riddled with deadly asbestos – and there have already been two terrifying incidences which may have endangered workers and Mps.
Oct 22, 2024
On October 18, 2024, Brazil’s Supreme Court (STF) held a virtual plenary session to discuss proposals which would allow asbestos mining for export purposes to continue for another five years. The law [20.514/2019] under which this contravention of the Brazilian asbestos ban persists was passed by the State of Goiás and is almost certainly unconstitutional. The STF was due to give a final ruling on shutting down mining operations months ago. The scheduled date for the verdict came and went with nothing further said about the pending asbestos litigation. Another hearing is set for October 25, 2024.
Oct 22, 2024
An asbestos fact sheet was uploaded on September 27, 2024 to the website of the World Health Organization (WHO). It was available in English, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Spanish and French. The new WHO resource confirmed that: all forms of asbestos, including chrysotile (white asbestos), are carcinogenic; construction workers remain at high risk of workplace exposures and the majority of all occupationally-caused deaths are due to exposures to asbestos. According to the WHO: “Asbestos-related diseases can be prevented, and the most efficient way to prevent them is to stop the use of all forms of asbestos to prevent exposure, as more than 50 WHO Member States have already done…” See: Asbestos. Key Facts.
Oct 22, 2024
Recognizing the hazard posed by the failure to regulate the disposal of asbestos-containing debris, Kenya’s National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) on October 18, 2024 uploaded a list of fifteen transporters and landfill sites which had been approved to handle asbestos waste in the counties of Mombasa, Kwale, Kilifi, Migori, Taita Taveta & Kiambu. As there are a total of 47 counties in Kenya, it is clear that the level of asbestos removal capacity which exists is not adequate for the country’s needs. On August 28, 2024, the Kenyan Government ordered that asbestos roofing on public and private buildings must be removed within 90 days as it posed a serious risk to public health. See: List of NEMA-Approved Asbestos Roof Landfills.
Oct 29, 2024
In recent weeks there has been a flurry of media coverage in newspapers and online about various aspects of the UK’s asbestos epidemic. Simultaneously, the Daily Mail launched a campaign – Asbestos: Britain's Hidden Killer – to establish a digital national asbestos database to prevent avoidable exposures as part of “a long-term strategic plan to eradicate asbestos risk from British infrastructure.” It’s pretty damning that more than a century after the asbestos hazard was first acknowledged by the British Government, so little has been done. One can but hope that the new 335 MPs, who constitute a majority of the House of Commons, will be more proactive on this deadly workplace hazard than their predecessors. [Read full article]
Oct 24, 2024
Proposals to ban asbestos are currently under consideration by the Mexican Congress with a discussion of the latest draft of the Asbestos Eradication Law scheduled for October 24, 2024 in the Legislative Palace. For years medical experts and civil society groups in Mexico have been calling for action on the asbestos hazard. Now that asbestos use has dwindled to 40 tonnes/year, these calls are being acted on. The loss of the Mexican asbestos market will have less of an impact than the loss of support from Mexican asbestos stakeholders who have vigorously participated in initiatives by industry lobbyists to influence national, regional and global asbestos dialogues. [Read full article]
Oct 18, 2024
As the 21st century dawned, China was both the world’s second biggest asbestos-consuming (382,315 tonnes/t) and producing (315,000t) country. By 2022, however, annual usage had fallen to 261,000t (a decrease of 32%) and production to 130,000t (a 59% fall). Figures for the last few years corroborated the continued decline. The reason for this U-turn was explained in a paper published last month which stated that China’s official policy on asbestos had undergone a major shift in 2013-14; intriguingly, the co-authors gave no more information and declined to provide footnotes to substantiate this statement. This being the case, the content of another September article was in direct contrast to observed trends. Want to know more…. [Read full article]
Oct 14, 2024
Just when you thought you had seen it all, you realize you were wrong. The lengths to which asbestos pushers will go to continue to ride the asbestos gravy train truly knows no bounds. This year, an asbestos trade association – Indonesia’s Fibre Cement Manufacturers’ Association (FICMA) – is trialing a new legal stratagem designed to: counteract a Supreme Court ruling unfavorable to the asbestos sector and cower campaigners brave enough to challenge the industry’s dominance. The audacity of this legal manoeuvre is breathtaking and, to my knowledge, totally unprecedented. The FICMA lawsuit, which targeted the consumers’ protection organization that had petitioned the Supreme Court to mandate Government action on the asbestos hazard, is claiming substantial damages from the NGO for loss of future profits. [Read full article]
Sep 22, 2024
Romana Blasotti Pavesi was a member of a club that no one wanted to join; she lost her husband Mario, daughter Maria Rosa, son Ottavio, sister Libera, nephew Enrico and cousin Anna to the asbestos cancer mesothelioma. Only Mario had worked with asbestos. All the others had been exposed to carcinogenic fibers in the built environment and in the air of their home town Casale Monferrato, the municipality at the center of Italy’s asbestos epidemic. In the face of her own losses and those of so many others, Romana dedicated her life to “the fight against asbestos.” The news of Romana’s death, at the age of 95 on September 11, 2024, sparked off intensive media coverage at home and a global outpouring of appreciation from fellow campaigners. [Read full article]
Sep 16, 2024
In a place long forgotten by the industrial enterprises which abused its people and polluted their land, a human-made miracle is taking place. From September 2 until September 20, 2024 an asbestos taskforce is providing free health screening for 450 individuals from the towns of Bom Jesus da Serra, Poçes, Caetanos and Planalto in the Brazilian State of Bahia. The bulk of the funding for this program was allocated from money impounded by the Labor Public Ministry from penalties paid by defendants which had been convicted of failing to provide mandatory occupational protections for their workers. [Read full article]
Sep 6, 2024
September 3, 2024 marked a turning point in the 30-year French battle for asbestos justice. A struggle to hold to account some of the people responsible for the country’s deadly asbestos epidemic collapsed when the Court of Cassation (Supreme Court) issued a ruling upholding a 2023 dismissal by the Paris Court of Appeals of criminal charges against executives of the country’s biggest asbestos group: Eternit. This was the latest in a series of defeats faced by asbestos victims and their legal representatives. More than a hundred years after Labor Inspector Denis Auribault reported excess mortality of asbestos workers in a textile factory in Condé-sur-Noireau, Calvados, French courts continue to fail the victims. Shame on them! [Read full article]
Sep 3, 2024
Until the 1970s, Canada was the world’s largest asbestos producer with mines in Quebec, British Columbia and Newfoundland. Although it was soon to be overtaken by output from mines in Soviet Russia, Canada remained the global asbestos cheerleader for decades to come. The price paid for Canada’s asbestos profits included lives shortened and families shattered. A national epidemic of asbestos-related diseases, discoveries of asbestos material contained within the national infrastructure and the perennial problem of what to do with huge mountains of asbestos mining waste continue long after the asbestos cash flow evaporated. [Read full article]
Aug 27, 2024
An insightful podcast broadcast on the BBC this summer raised the profile of the hazard posed by the presence of talc in make-up, cosmetics and personal hygiene products in the UK. The first 14-minute episode of “Talc Tales” – part of the How They Made Us Doubt Everything series – featured the case of British woman Hannah Fletcher, who was diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma at the age of 41. Ms. Fletcher believed that she contracted the signature asbestos cancer as a result of exposures to toxic talcum powder. Spurred by this allegation, podcaster Phoebe Keane submitted the contents of her make-up bag for analysis. The results, which were delivered in the last of the five episodes, validated the ongoing hazard posed by the use of talc in cosmetics. [Read full article]
Aug 20, 2024
In a joint press release issued on August 20, 2024, representatives of asbestos victims and trade unionists from Asia, Europe, Latin America and Australia expressed concern over recent developments at Brazil’s Supreme Court (STF), an esteemed and venerable institution. According to the official court schedule, the verdict on the unconstitutionality of a state law allowing asbestos mining and exporting to continue despite a national ban was expected on August 14. Without a word of warning or explanation, the case disappeared from the court docket. An appeal was made to the STF to “take the right course of action and reschedule the delivery of this ruling for the earliest opportunity” (Clique aqui para ler a versão em português). [Read full article]
Aug 19, 2024
Even though it is winter now in Brazil, Christmas has come early for Eternit SA, the country’s sole remaining asbestos producer. The week beginning August 12, 2024 was a bumper one for the company with plaudits a-plenty and gifts raining down. As Eternit emerged from more than six years of a court-supervised judicial reorganization process, it was lauded as an inspiration to Brazilian corporations “as a valuable example of how companies in crisis can reinvent themselves and thrive.” Contemporaneous developments at the Supreme Court and Goiás State Legislature made it abundantly clear that Eternit, whose asbestos exports are worth US $4,750,000+ per month, still had plenty of influential friends left. [Read full article]
Aug 13, 2024
As global demand collapses and competitors crowd into remaining markets, the Russian asbestos behemoth is weakening. At the same time as Russia’s traditional customer base is disintegrating, competitors in Kazakhstan and China are developing new trade routes and streamlining logistics to capitalize on the woes of Russian suppliers. As demand continues to decline, market forces may succeed where the Russian government has failed. With dwindling sales, Russia’s once mighty asbestos industry may no longer be financially viable. Time will tell. [Read full article]
Jul 26, 2024
In the compilation of the July 25, 2024 asbestos news items for IBAS, I noticed a pattern in the content available. The developments reported on that day from Asia, Europe and North America illustrated the evolution of the global asbestos agenda from the early days of promotion to the end stage of eradication with a stop en route to address claims by the injured. With so much political uncertainty and social instability on the horizon, it is reassuring to see that progress is being made to end the global epidemic of asbestos-related diseases and provide justice for the injured. The sooner humankind transitions to asbestos-free technology, the safer the world will be. [Read full article]
Jul 18, 2024
If asbestos producers have their way, the global epidemic of asbestos-related deaths could well continue into the 25th century. And yet asbestos, in all its forms, is categorized as a Group 1 carcinogen (“carcinogenic to humans”) by the International Agency on Research for Cancer. According to data published on July 22, 2024 in The Lancet, Asia bears the highest disease burden of lung cancer, with 63.1% of newly diagnosed lung cancers and 62.9% of lung cancer deaths occurring in the region…” It is no coincidence that the region with “the highest disease burden of lung cancer” is also the region with the highest consumption of asbestos. [Read full article]
Jul 16, 2024
At an art exhibition held in Dundee, Scotland on May 9, 2024 by the Scottish asbestos charity Asbestos Action, ten original portraits of asbestos victims by artist Craig Semple were displayed. The objective of the event was to show that people are “much more than their diagnoses.” Commenting on the day, the Charity’s General Manager Dianne Foster said: “Every single person who is diagnosed with an asbestos-related condition has a life, has a family, has friends, and it is a very unfair situation that people have been exposed to asbestos.” Positive feedback was received from many of the hundred or so people who attended the showing. [Read full article]
Jul 8, 2024
Last week, millions of readers of major UK newspapers were reminded of the country’s tragic asbestos legacy in stories about asbestos-related deaths from occupational, second-hand and environmental exposures. Almost simultaneously, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) released figures confirming the continuation of the epidemic which has been killing Britons for over a century. According to new HSE data, 5,000 people+ die annually from asbestos-related diseases including mesothelioma, lung cancer, asbestosis, cancers of the larynx and stomach; there is no data for the number of asbestos-related deaths caused by cancers of the ovary and pharynx. Calls are being made for the new Labour Government to take action on this national scandal. [Read full article]
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Report: Medical workshop, two-day socio-legal conference,
and national victims' meeting in Campinas, São Paulo – (2015)
Conference Report: Freeing Europe Safely from Asbestos – (2015)
BWI International Conference on Asbestos 2014 – (2014)
Europe's Asbestos Catastrophe – (2012)
Asian Asbestos Conference 2009 – (2009)
BANJAN Anniversary Conference, Yokohama – (2007)
Asian Asbestos Conference AAC 2006 – (2006)
European Asbestos Conference:
Policy, Health and Human Rights – (2005)
Global Asbestos Congress GAC 2004 – (2004)
Canadian Asbestos: A Global Concern – (2003)
Hellenic Asbestos Conference – (2002)
European Asbestos Seminar – (2001)
Global Asbestos Congress, Osasco – (2000)
These reports are on major events where IBAS has acted as co-sponsor or provided substantial support. For further reports and presentations from these and scores of other events in which IBAS has taken an interest see Site Map:Conference and Event Reports
Eternit and the Great Asbestos Trial – (2012)
IBAS Report: Asian Asbestos Conference 2009
India's Asbestos Time Bomb – (2008)
Killing the Future: Asbestos Use in Asia* – (2007)
Chrysotile Asbestos: Hazardous to Humans, Deadly to the Rotterdam Convention – (2006)
Asbestos: The Human Cost of Corporate Greed* – (2005)
Asbestos Dispatches – (2004)
The Asbestos War – (2003)
Annals: Global Asbestos Congress 2000
The items listed include IBAS publications, IBAS texts published by third parties and IJOEH special issues guest edited by Laurie Kazan-Allen.
*Some translations from English available in Publications sidebar
Current Asbestos Bans and Restrictions
National Asbestos Bans (Chronology)
WTO Upholds French Ban on Chrysotile – (2001)
Europe Bans Asbestos – (2001)
The Rotterdam Convention
United Nations and ILO Position
Other Articles on National Bans in addition to the first two items listed above can be found in Site Map: Asbestos Bans and Regulations
Article Abstracts
News Items
There are abstracts for most articles on the site dated after April 2007; the inclusion of news items commenced in June 2009. Both archives can be searched by country, geographical region or year.
2012:
Achieving Justice for Eternit's Asbestos Victims
Submission to Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, European Parliament
Europe's Asbestos Catastrophe
Mesothelioma: Personal Tragedy, Global Disaster
Warnings Unheeded: a British Tragedy Becomes a Global Disaster
Update on Global "Asbestos Justice" 2012
A selection of papers by Laurie Kazan-Allen presented at conferences and symposia during 2012. See also Conference Papers (IBAS) 2009-11 and 2003-08
2011:
Press Conference: A Bloody Anniversary
Update on Ban Asbestos Campaign
Global Campaign to Ban Asbestos 2011
Asbestos: An International Perspective
Recognition and Compensation of Asbestos-Related Diseases in Europe
Changing Britain's Asbestos Landscape
2010:
Asbestos and the Americas
Global Asbestos Panorama 2010 The Winds of Change
2009:
Stephan Schmidheiny: Saint or Sinner?
Sex, Secrets and Asbestos Lies
Global Panorama on Mesothelioma 2009
A selection of papers by Laurie Kazan-Allen presented at conferences and symposia during 2009-11. See also Conference Papers (IBAS) 2012 and 2003-08
The Rise of the Global Asbestos Victims' Movement
Global Panorama on Mesothelioma 2008
Current UK Asbestos Developments: Compensation, Medical Treatment and Political Support
UK Rail Trade Unions: Action on Asbestos
The Doctors and the Dollars
Global Impact of Asbestos: The Environment
Asbestos Cancer in the Eastern Mediterranean (EM) Region
Fear in a Handful of Dust!
Osasco: Birthplace of the 21st Century Ban Asbestos Movement
Asbestos: Truth and Consequences
Asbestos Abroad - An International Overview
A selection of papers by Laurie Kazan-Allen presented at conferences and symposia during 2003-08. See also Conference Papers (IBAS) 2012 and 2009-11
2014:
Campaigning for Justice: On the Asbestos Frontline 2014
Europe’s Asbestos Legacy: Ongoing Challenges, International
Solutions
The Asbestos Frontline: Then and Now
2013:
Report from the Asbestos Frontline: 2013
Asbestos Health Reflections on International Womens Day
A selection of papers by Laurie Kazan-Allen presented at conferences and symposia during 2013-14. See also Conference Papers (IBAS) 2015-19, 2012, 2009-11 and 2003-08
2019:
Global Asbestos Panorama 2019
Thirty Years on the Asbestos Frontline
2018:
Global Overview: Asbestos Landscape 2018
2017:
The Global Campaign To Ban Asbestos 2017!
2015:
What Would Shakespeare Say?
The Global Mesothelioma Landscape 2015
A selection of papers by Laurie Kazan-Allen presented at conferences and symposia during 2015-19. See also Conference Papers (IBAS) 2013-14, 2012, 2009-11 and 2003-08
Events in Canada
(Account of the Delegation's activities in Canada, with photos added on Dec 16 &17.)
Briefings, Statements, Letters
(Links to the documentation that we have accumulated.)
Media
(Links to print and broadcast coverage.)
Global Demonstrations
(Photos and first-hand accounts from global demonstrations supporting the Delegation.)
Mission Aftermath: Later Developments
(Links to ongoing developments and updated information.)
The Delegation, a group of Asian asbestos victim representatives and supporters, journeyed to Quebec in order to persuade the Government of Quebec to withdraw backing for the development of a new asbestos mine and to request that Canada cease the export of asbestos fiber in particular to their home countries unilaterally.
Press Release. STOP Brazilian Asbestos Exports! April 21, 2019
Comunicados de Imprensa: Parem com as exportações de amianto para a Ásia!
Eighteen page press briefing:
The Asian Ban Asbestos Mission to Brazil 2019. No More Asbestos Exports to Asia!
Missão Asiática Antiamianto no Brasil 2019. Parem com as exportações de amianto para a Ásia!
Day by day account of the progress of the mission:
Report from Asian Ban Asbestos Mission to Brazil April, 2019
Blog:
IBAS blog, May 7, 2019: The Brazilian Association of the Asbestos-Exposed [Associação Brasileira dos Expostos ao Amianto]
In response to asbestos interests in Brazil seeking to continue asbestos exports (contrary to a 2017 Supreme Court ruling), five ban asbestos campaigners from three Asian countries journeyed to Brazil in April, 2019, to entreat citizens, politicians, civil servants, decision-makers, Supreme Court Justices and corporations to prevent such exports. The links above provide access to documents pertinent to the Asian expedition.
Demonstration in Woluwe Park, Brussels, 2006
Under cloudy skies, members of Belgian and French Asbestos Victims' Associations from Dunkirk and Bourgogne marched side-by-side in the third annual demonstration organized by ABEVA, the Belgian Association of Asbestos Victims. Erik Jonckheere, ABEVA's Co-chairman, condemned the government which still refuses to recognize the plight of the asbestos injured.
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