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Oct 10, 2024
China’s epidemic of lung cancer is costing 10,000 lives every year and in excess of 20 billion yuan in lung cancer treatment costs. Eighty per cent of lung cancers in China are lung adenocarcinomas; the majority of these patients did not smoke. Dr Chen Jinxing, a medical expert from Taiwan, advised women not to use cheap powdered cosmetics because they might be contaminated with asbestos fibers and to limit the amount of time they wear make-up to minimize the cancer risk. See: 不抽菸、没做饭仍罹肺腺癌 台大医:1类化妆品别用 [If you don't smoke or cook, you still get lung adenocarcinoma. National Taiwan University doctor: Don't use Class 1 cosmetics].
Oct 10, 2024
The legacy of historic asbestos use in Singapore has been linked to the escalation of asbestos cancer cases despite the fact that asbestos use was banned 30+ years ago. In the early 1980s, there were five cases diagnosed of mesothelioma – the signature cancer associated with exposure to asbestos – every year; in 2019, there were 110 cases. For sufferers to access government benefits, the link between occupational asbestos exposure and the disease must be proved. This is often very difficult as shown by the fact that of the 394 cases reported to the Singapore Cancer Registry, only 94 were confirmed as occupational by the Ministry of Manpower. See: Asbestos: Singapore’s Toxic Past Is Catching up With It.
Oct 10, 2024
In the aftermath of man-made and environmental disasters, the hazard posed by the liberation of asbestos by widespread destruction adds yet another layer of hazard to local people as well as to emergency workers and reporters. The situation in Gaza, which has been under sustained bombardment since the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas, was described in the article cited below as a “Death Sentence” for people who have no way of escaping from the toxic air: “According to United Nations estimates, some 800,000 tonnes of the bombed-out debris across Gaza may be contaminated with asbestos.” See: ‘Death sentence’: Asbestos released by Israel’s bombs will kill for decades.
Oct 10, 2024
Following approval from the US Food and Drug Administration, a new treatment option is being recommended as the first-line treatment for patients with advanced or metastatic pleural mesothelioma. The new protocol combines the use of Keytruda (pembrolizumab) – an immune checkpoint inhibitor (immunotherapy) – with chemotherapy. Using personalized medicine to better delineate effective treatments, the use of this combination is dependent on the subtype of mesothelioma with patients with non-epithelioid mesothelioma responding “much better” to immunotherapy than those with the epithelioid subtype. See: Keytruda Plus Chemo New Standard of Care in Pleural Mesothelioma.
Oct 10, 2024
Students from Casale Monferrato, the town at the epicenter of Italy’s asbestos epidemic, have long played a valuable role in the campaign to raise awareness of the asbestos hazard and keep a high public profile for the disaster which killed not only asbestos workers but also members of the public. Last week, 800 students formed a “human chain,” as they marched through the town to the park built on the site of the infamous Eternit asbestos factory. See: Casale, 800 studenti formano una 'catena umana' contro l'amianto [Casale, 800 students form a ‘human chain’ against asbestos].
Oct 10, 2024
Clydeside Action on Asbestos, now renamed Action on Asbestos, marked its 40th year anniversary last week. This Glasgow-based charity was started by men with first-hand experience of occupational asbestos exposures from their work in Scottish shipyards and factories. The appalling conditions they described were widespread as was “the misinformation they were given by their bosses” who reassured them that that exposure to white asbestos was safe. The employers were, said campaigner Phyllis Craig, “counting on workers’ ignorance.” See: Asbestos charity's tribute to workers as it marks 40 years.
Oct 8, 2024
Although asbestos was banned in Korea, there are still asbestos-containing products within the national infrastructure. The asbestos contamination of schools is of particular concern and news of the asbestos cancer death of one former student was reported in the article cited below. Lee Sung-jin was in his 30s when he died having been diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma when he was 18 years old. It is believed that he had been exposed to asbestos roofing in his childhood home as well as asbestos material in his elementary school. See: [단독] 교실 천장이 부른 비극…"잠복기 최대 40년" 우려 출처 : SBS 뉴스 원본 링크 [Exclusive. Classroom ceilings sparked tragedy... “Incubation period of up to 40 years”].
Oct 8, 2024
On October 3, 2024, a court in Naples, Italy ordered that the shipyard defendant Fincantieri pay compensation of €1 million (US$1.1m) to the surviving family of a worker who died from pleural mesothelioma in 2019, aged 59. The deceased, who had been employed by the company from 1977 to 1981 at the Castellammare di Stabia plant, had been routinely exposed to asbestos. The size of the verdict and the recognition of the worker’s exposure to asbestos fibers brought home by his shipyard worker father was, said the family’s lawyer, a “significant milestone towards justice for asbestos victims.” See: Amianto nel cantiere, risarcimento da un milione per operaio [Asbestos at construction site, compensation of one million for worker].
Oct 8, 2024
Judge Rodrigo Machado Coutinho of the 6th Federal Court of Porto Alegre, Brazil ruled on September 29, 2024 that the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) must pay R$100,000 (US$ 18,325) for moral damages to the family of a professor who died of asbestos cancer. The deceased, who had worked as a bacteriologist in a UFRGS lab, had been exposed to asbestos due to UFFRGS’s negligence in failing to implement safeguards. See: UFRGS é condenada a indenizar em R$ 100 mil família de professor que morreu de câncer causado por amianto [UFRGS is ordered to pay R$100,000 in compensation to the family of a professor who died of cancer caused by asbestos].
Oct 8, 2024
The text cited below is a brief report on the annual scientific meeting of Australia’s National Centre for Asbestos Related Diseases (NCARD), which was held on September 18 & 19 at the Harry Perkins Building in QEII Medical Centre, Perth. During the sessions, NCARD researchers were able to explain their work to an audience which included members of the community and asbestos victims’ campaigning groups as well as scientific and medical experts. Research updates were provided on topics such as mesothelioma, lung cancer and pleural disease; also discussed was cancer biology in general and the health system’s national infrastructure. See: NCARD 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting – Public Lecture available online.
Oct 8, 2024
As of October 1, 2024, the asbestos support charity formerly called the Derbyshire Asbestos Support Team (DAST) changed its name to East Midlands Asbestos Support Team (EMAST). After providing support for asbestos victims in Derbyshire for 20 years, EMAST staff believed that the wider geographic area covered nowadays needed a name that better reflected the expansion of services to include asbestos disease sufferers and their families across the East Midlands and Cambridgeshire. See: Local asbestos support charity DAST changes name to EMAST.
Oct 8, 2024
The discovery of sprayed asbestos material on the ceilings of municipal apartment buildings has triggered plans to transfer residents from 59 households to alternative accommodation in 2025. Once the occupants have been relocated, asbestos removal work will be undertaken by specialist operatives. In the meantime, according to city officials, there was no health risk as the material was not in a friable or deteriorating state. See: 那覇市営住宅からアスベスト、59世帯を転居へ 健康被害の報告なし [Naha Municipal Housing to Relocate 59 Households to Remove Asbestos. No Health Hazards Reported].
Oct 4, 2024
In retaliation for a Supreme Court victory mandating the labelling of asbestos-containing roofing products being sold in Indonesia, asbestos stakeholders from the FICMA trade association issued legal proceedings against civil society campaigners claiming damages for loss of future income. The robust defence being mounted by the consumer protection organization LPKSM Yasa Nata Budi is supported by a network of civil society groups including LION Indonesia, the Indonesian Ban Asbestos Network, the Consumer Protection Institute and the Aysa Nata Budi Foundation as well as international partners. See: Corporate Bullies: Asbestos manufacturers sue ban asbestos campaigners.
Oct 4, 2024
A former official of the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (SNCF) – France's national state-owned railway company – will face trial at the Paris criminal court for charges related to alleged asbestos exposures to SNCF employees between 1998 and 2000. Under the management of the accused, who is 79 years old and is suffering from an asbestos-related condition, it is alleged that mandatory protections weren’t implemented and toxic workplace exposures were commonplace. See: Amiante: 25 ans plus tard, un procès ordonné contre un ancien responsable SNCF [Asbestos: 25 years later, a trial ordered against a former SNCF official].
Oct 4, 2024
In September, 2024 the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, in collaboration with sustainable development consultants from the AV Group B.V, organized an Asbestos Alternatives Workshop in Tajikistan, a country which between 2019 and 2021 used on average 18,000 tonnes of asbestos a year. The workshop reported on research undertaken last year in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Following the presentations and discussions, participants agreed to work towards an asbestos phase-out to protect citizens from contracting the deadly asbestos-related diseases caused by toxic exposures. See: Asbestos Alternatives Workshop in Tajikistan – September 2024.
Oct 4, 2024
Western Australia’s Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (DWER) refused an application to amend the licence for a landfill site at Mirrabooka which would have allowed it to accept asbestos-containing material. In its October 2nd decision, the DWER said: “it was decided that the risk of asbestos exposure to nearby sensitive receptors, including residential housing, aged care, and multiple schools, was unacceptable…” Melita Markey CEO of the Asbestos Diseases Society of Australia welcomed this decision saying: “Australia is a vast country – we shouldn’t be burying toxic waste in residential areas.” See: Media release. Asbestos landfill application refused.
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]
Jul 1, 2024
The death of Robert Vojakovic was announced on June 27, 2024. Robert was a star in the galaxy of asbestos campaigners: he was indefatigable, incontrovertible and irrepressible. Coming from thousands of miles away, Robert Vojakovic grew to represent the very best of Australian values in his fight for a “Fair Go” for workers in his new country. Over the span of fifty years, he devoted his time and energy initially as a volunteer, latterly as the President of the Australian Diseases Society of Australia, to making manifest the devastating impact asbestos exposures had had on miners, millers, transport workers and family members from the infamous asbestos mining town of Wittenoom, where he himself once worked. [Read full article]
Jun 18, 2024
The news released last week that Russia’s Ministry of Health (MoH) was considering plans to recognize occupational cancers, including those caused by exposures to asbestos, as industrial diseases was as huge a surprise to ban asbestos campaigners as it was a shock to Russian vested interests. The consultation period was due to close yesterday (June 17, 2024). No doubt the MoH received angry complaints from Orenburg Minerals, Uralasbest and other asbestos stakeholders over the implicit threat to the substance at the heart of their enterprises. After all, if asbestos is hazardous enough to be on the authorized list of diseases caused by occupational exposures in Russia, then the industry propaganda which affirms that asbestos use is safe is patently untrue, as we all know it to be. [Read full article]
Jun 17, 2024
Late on June 11, 2024, Italy’s Supreme Court (the Court of Cassation) announced that it had overturned a decision by the Palermo Court of Appeal which had nullified a first-instance guilty verdict for the asbestos deaths of 39 shipyard workers and the serious injuries sustained by 11 other employees. The lower court had ruled that the negligence of executives Giuseppe Cortesi and Antonio Cipponeri had resulted in dangerous workplace asbestos exposures at the Fincantieri S.p.A. shipyard in Palermo in the 1980s. The Court of Appeal rejected this decision saying that exposure to asbestos at the company’s shipyard in Palermo had ceased in the early 1980s. The Supreme Court found the decision of the Appeal Court “erroneous” and ordered a new hearing. [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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