IBAS 25th Anniversary Review 

by Laurie Kazan-Allen

 

 

The International Ban Asbestos Secretariat (IBAS) was established in November 1999 by Laurie Kazan-Allen, in collaboration with colleagues in North and Latin America, Asia, Europe and Australia, to provide a conduit for the exchange of information amongst groups and individuals working to achieve justice for the injured and progress the global fight to ban asbestos. Over the next 25 years, IBAS and its allies facilitated events, initiated projects and supported endeavors to achieve these objectives on six continents. The sizable impact and global scope of the Secretariat’s reach resulted from the efforts of the ever-expanding coalition of asbestos victims, committed activists, technical experts and partners who shared the same goals as the IBAS pioneers.

 


Standing on the shoulders of the asbestos campaigners who preceded us, we were able to use emerging technologies to communicate in real-time at virtually no expense. Good-bye to long-delayed airmail letters and expensive faxes, hello to emails, WhatsApp, Skype and Zoom calls. The use of new technology was of immense benefit during the COVID-19 pandemic, enabling campaigners cut off by travel restrictions to continue their potentially life-saving discussions.1

Building our Network

The creation of our network took time and patience. Details of potential participants and relevant groups were gathered via in-person discussions at local, national, regional and international events. Discussions, too numerous to recount, took place over pre-conference breakfasts, during meal breaks and on coaches to the airport. Once identified, the new links in our network suggested others and so we grew from a small group of campaigners into an international force to be reckoned with. Ignoring national boundaries and academic disciplines, we reached out via partnering organizations to a range of civil society groups at home and working on subjects such as occupational health and safety, social equity, consumers’ rights, just transition, the environment, net zero, clean shipbuilding, disaster relief, asbestos eradication and green innovation.

By raising the profile of asbestos issues in scores of countries, we facilitated a dialogue which gave voice to those people who had been silenced by the actions of a ruthless industry, one bent on prioritizing profits at all costs. IBAS activists helped pull asbestos out of the “industrial hygiene” doldrums in which it had often been ignored and into the light as part of mainstream discussions on high-profile topics such as: human rights, environmental justice, clean technologies and sustainability.

Where we found unmet needs, we sought to fill them – the formation of the Asian Ban Asbestos Network (ABAN) with founding members from asbestos victims’ organizations, labor unions and environmental justice groups in 16 Asia-Pacific countries in 2009 at the Asian Asbestos Conference in Hong Kong proved to be a crucial development in the implementation of our goals.2

 


Asian Asbestos Conference 2009. Hong Kong. Where the ABAN journey began! Photo courtesy of ABAN.

 


The most recent ABAN initiative: Building Momentum: Banning Asbestos in Southeast Asia Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia November 19-20, 2024. Photo courtesy of ABAN.

The IBAS Effect

In 1999, when IBAS was formed, only 18 European countries had banned asbestos use. In 2024, there are 73 national asbestos bans in Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania, Latin and North America.3 Global asbestos consumption which totaled 2 million+ tonnes in 1999 is now 1.3 million tonnes (-35%), the vast majority of which is used in Asia. The number of asbestos-producing nations has fallen from fourteen (1999) to just four: Russia, Kazakhstan, China and Brazil.

 


Then and Now!

News received in October, 2024 suggested that Mexico, which not long ago had been firmly in the pro-asbestos camp, was finally ready to make the transition to an asbestos-free future.4 With ban asbestos policies espoused by international agencies such as the World Health Organization, the International Labor Organization, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the International Trade Union Confederation and others, it is clear that the use of asbestos technology is no longer defensible or sustainable.5

Nowadays, asbestos – known once-upon-a-time as “the magic mineral” or “white gold” – has become a byword for death and destruction. The final ignominy in the downfall of the asbestos brand was the 2020 decision to change the name of the Quebec asbestos mining town from Asbestos to Val-des-Sources.6 It seemed voters were keen to shed the disgrace signaled by their former name, going as far as renaming not only their town but also “Asbestos Street,” which was rechristened rue des Bâtisseurs (Builders’ Street) one year later.

 

From Asbestos to Val-des-Sources: same town, new name.

The IBAS Odyssey

There have been extraordinary highlights over the last quarter of a century, some of which are listed in the Appendix to this review. While the IBAS virtual coalition has always existed on a shoestring, our lack of financial resources has more than been compensated for by traits far more valuable than money: imagination, creativity, solidarity and dedication. Fighting against well-resourced pro-asbestos propagandists, IBAS activists engaged the enemy on many fronts simultaneously; using the new tools at our disposal, including online translation applications and instant messaging, made it faster and easier for exchanges of information and logistical planning to overcome difficulties posed by national differences and time zones.

To organize and disseminate the expanding amount of information on global asbestos developments, it was decided early on to establish a purpose-built online information portal. The IBAS website has now become the go-to resource for people campaigning on asbestos-related issues as well as students and journalists investigating various aspects of the global asbestos legacy. IBAS continues to commission original artwork and generate online resources for use by ban asbestos campaigners including cartoons, graphs, charts and maps. On November 2, 2024, Professor Ken Takahashi – winner of the Collegium Ramazzini Award 20247 – acknowledged the importance of IBAS resources as follows:

“I am deeply indebted to your work, particularly your valuable data on countries that have banned asbestos, which I have referenced extensively in my group’s research papers, as have many others working on similar themes.”8

An audit of the IBAS website this month found ~6,800 news items, 1,300 original articles, and 230 blogs, plus myriad graphics, publications, trade data analyses, national profiles, conference reports and presentations quantifying the global asbestos challenge, exposing the crimes of vested interests, and documenting the efforts of grassroots groups and partnering organizations to support the injured and achieve a worldwide ban.

One of the most extensive pieces of research conducted by IBAS was its examination of the legal machinations which resulted in the US asbestos ban being rescinded in 1991. Work on this project began in 2009/10 with Freedom of Information requests to the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA). Throughout the investigation, the files received from the EPA were read and re-read, with the final version of a paper collating the research results being completed in time for the 20th anniversary of the overturn of the ban.9 In conjunction with Canadian MP Pat Martin, this paper was translated into French and a press conference was convened on October 18, 2011 in Ottawa to present its findings.

 


IBAS Coordinator Laurie Kazan-Allen (middle) addressing journalists at Ottawa press conference. October 18, 2012.

The speech at the press conference, which was based on the research findings, pulled no punches about who was to blame:

“The Canadian assault on the U.S. ban was masterminded by politicians and civil servants in Ottawa and Quebec. They sought to remain invisible and, to a large extent, succeeded. Their Machiavellian strategy was spelt out in 1986 by Alek Ignatow from the Ministry of Energy, Mines, and Resources: ‘Clearly, the industry must be seen as leading on this issue,’ he wrote. So, while industry fronted the attack, financial support and political assistance from Quebec and Ottawa underpinned the incursion of Canada’s asbestos foot soldiers into U.S. territory. Documents released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) name those involved in the Canadian plot to overthrow the U.S. ban.”10

In an aside from the written text, Laurie Kazan-Allen elicited gasps from members of the press corps when she accused the Canadian Government of “pimping for the asbestos industry.” Her denunciation was reported in the Globe and Mail – Canada’s “newspaper of record” – as follows:

“Anti-asbestos lobbyists say former Canadian politicians, ambassadors and bureaucrats abandoned their morals when they successfully lobbied two decades ago to prevent the carcinogenic material [asbestos] from being banned in the United States.”11

In an example of serendipitous happenstance, the same day as the press conference was due to take place in Ottawa, an article in the hard copy of the Globe and Mail reported a rare public rebuke by the World Health Organization (WHO) and confirmation of the WHO position that: “All forms of asbestos including chrysotile cause cancer in humans.” According to reporter Julian Sher, the WHO had criticized Canadian asbestos entrepreneur Baljit Chadha “for distorting its position on the safety of the carcinogenic product… [and] stating in a recent newspaper commentary that a WHO-sanctioned level of exposure to asbestos ‘poses no health risk.’”12 During a phone interview Dr Ivan Ivanov, the team leader of occupational health at the WHO Department of Public Health and Environment, reasserted that: “There is no safe threshold of exposure to all forms of asbestos… [and that] the most efficient way to eliminate asbestos-related diseases” is to end all asbestos use.

I came upon the Globe and Mail article on the morning of October 18th as I was nervously second-guessing the wisdom of condemning Canada’s attack on its neighbor’s asbestos ban at such a high-profile event in the Canadian capital. Reading the article over breakfast seemed propitious and emboldened me to be even more forthright than I had originally intended.

Industry Fightback

Disturbed by the international impact IBAS was having, in 2012, shadowy East European asbestos stakeholders implemented an espionage operation to “expose” the misdeeds of IBAS, an organization which they alleged was using undue means to force trade unions, national governments, regional bodies and international agencies to adopt policies supporting efforts to outlaw asbestos use. By the time the “asbestos spy” was outed in 2016, it’s believed that his paymasters had spent more than a million dollars on fees, expenses and invoices submitted by the British intelligence agency which employed him. In November, 2018, a civil lawsuit mounted by the targets of this espionage operation reached a confidential out-of-court settlement which revealed the name of some, but not all, of those responsible for this illicit attack on civil society activists.13

Even now, we know that IBAS activities are rigorously monitored by global asbestos lobbyists. A telling detail was our reporting on November 6, 2024 of a Russian language feature which explained that one of the aims of the Russian founders of the BRICS initiative was to protect and grow asbestos markets in “China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and many other countries.”14 Within hours of our uploading a link to this damning article, it was no longer accessible. Coincidence or hard evidence, you decide.

Happy Anniversary, IBAS!

In consultation with colleagues, it was decided to mark the 25th anniversary of IBAS by making substantial donations to pioneering grassroots doctors working on the asbestos frontlines in Asia and Latin America. This money is currently being used to facilitate medical examinations and clinical tests for at-risk individuals and establish and administer an asbestos registry to ensure timely follow-ups of the growing number of people being diagnosed with asbestos-related diseases.

The privilege of working with so many committed people in the IBAS network has been an incredible honor. As I reflect on what we have achieved together, I remember those IBAS colleagues we have lost to asbestos-related diseases. So many who were taken before their time. Their names and faces will stay with me forever. After he had told me of his mesothelioma diagnosis, I asked Australian historian Jock McCulloch if there was anything I could do for him. He replied: “I'd like you to keep up the work you have been doing since before we met all those years ago.” His message for activists campaigning for asbestos justice, environmental remediation, medical research and a global ban was the following:

“It is an important and ongoing struggle. Because some gains have been made that does not mean those gains will endure. The current lack of public regulation in OECD states in regard to building materials means asbestos based products are currently being used in settings where consumers expect to be protected. They are not.”15

Historian Geoffrey Tweedale, author of the seminal text From Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard (2000), and co-author with Jock McCulloch of Defending the Indefensible: The Global Asbestos Industry and its Fight for Survival (2008) added:

“Anyone unfortunate enough to be afflicted by an asbestos-related disease, soon appreciates that the problem is international in scope. The strength of IBAS is that it has knitted together an international community of asbestos sufferers and activists that is dedicated to the banning of this pernicious mineral. In doing so, it has created a unique 25-year historical record of a criminal failure in global public health.”

IBAS Memories and Congratulations

The creative input of Brazilian Engineer Fernanda Giannasi, co-founder of the Brazilian Association of the Asbestos Exposed (ABREA), was crucial in the creation of IBAS. Remembering the lightbulb moment which started the ball rolling, Fernanda recalled:

“In 1999, when we were gathered in a hotel room in Chicago during the American Public Health Association annual meeting, Laurie Kazan-Allen, Barry Castleman and I discussed the possibility of creating an international body that would interact with national entities and associations of asbestos victims, consumers, influencers, opinion makers and policy makers to facilitate the dissemination of knowledge and planning of joint actions by grassroots groups and stakeholders. What seemed like a crazy idea and the delirium of idealistic dreamers became reality and IBAS – which became the greatest international resource in the fight to achieve justice for victims and ban asbestos – was born.

IBAS has been a steadfast and close partner of ABREA since the very beginning. Together, we brought to life our joint vision of the world’s first gathering of asbestos victims and experts: the Global Asbestos Congress: Past, Present and Future (GAC2000). It took place in Osasco, the heartland of Brazil’s asbestos-cement industry in 2000. At every twist and turn of ABREA’s campaign to give voice to the injured and stop the slaughter, IBAS has been a much-valued presence and ally. Together, we exposed the lies of the powerful Brazilian asbestos lobby, won victories against corrupt legal actions and revolutionized the national asbestos dialogue. ABREA sends its warmest congratulations to IBAS at completing its first 25 years and looks forward to the next chapter in the IBAS story.”

 


Fernanda Giannasi addressing the GAC 2000, Osasco, Brazil. September 18, 2000. Photo courtesy of ABREA.

 


ABREA members and supporters outside the Osasco conference venue of GAC2000. Photo courtesy of ABREA.

Another one of the founding members of the IBAS coalition was Sugio Furuya, Secretary-General of the Japan Occupational Safety and Health Resource, Secretary-General of the Ban Asbestos Network Japan (BANJAN), and since 2009 Coordinator of the Asian Ban Asbestos Network (ABAN).

 

Sugio Furuya at Global Asbestos Congress (GAC) Osasco, Brazil, 2000 (left) and ABAN South Asia Strategy Meeting, March, 2024 (right). Photos courtesy of ABAN.

Sugio Furuya and the other Japanese delegates who attended the Global Asbestos Congress in Brazil spearheaded the huge logistical effort which would, years later, result in the Global Asbestos Congress 2004 (GAC 2004).

 


Organizers, volunteers and delegates from GAC 2004. Tokyo, Japan. Photo courtesy of Sugio Furuya.

Reflecting on the hundreds of shared IBAS experiences and collaborations since 1999, Sugio Furuya said:

“IBAS opened the door to the world for Japanese campaigners – our first IBAS meeting was GAC2000. I believe that GAC2000 and GAC2004 were golden opportunities in the history of the fight for a global ban on asbestos. Without the full support of IBAS, not only practically but also in terms of inspiration and networking, it would not have been possible to establish ABAN in 2009 and to maintain it to this day. The Asian Solidarity Delegation to Quebec in 2010, the participation of Asian asbestos victims at Geneva meetings of the UN’s Rotterdam Convention in 2015, 2017 & 2019 and the Asian Ban Asbestos Mission to Brazil 2019 ensured that the voice of asbestos victims was heard far and wide. Collective efforts such as joint statements and open letters have strengthened regional and international coalitions and reinforced our calls for global action. The reliable and up-to-date information provided by IBAS has been and continues to be essential in overcoming the asbestos industry's propaganda and convincing people of the need to ban asbestos.”

 


ABAN Delegation to Quebec December 9, 2010 Press Conference in at Quebec National Assembly. Photo courtesy of ABAN.

Bearing in mind, the adage “out of sight, out of mind,” asbestos victims in Western Australia – of whom there are, unfortunately, far too many – were at a distinct disadvantage with their counterparts in more densely populated areas. Having spoken in the mid-1990s to Robert Vojakovic, the President of the Asbestos Diseases Society of Australia (ADSA), about the unfolding catastrophe caused by toxic exposures at Western Australia’s Wittenom asbestos mine, the Society became a founding member of the IBAS coalition. Explaining the importance of this relationship, Melita Markey, CEO of the ADSA, said:

“The attendance of the GAC 2000 of the ADSA’s President, Counsellor and Legal Advisor was a revelation. For the first time, they were in close proximity with victims’ campaigners, medical experts, trade union activists and scientists from all over the world dedicated to the same cause. The contacts made there and the links established were to fuel our work over the coming decades. The ongoing support provided by IBAS, whether it was the stream of global news, the creation of resources, the analyses of global trends or the willingness to ferret out specific information and key contacts, was of immense value to our members. For this reason, in 2012 the IBAS Coordinator was the first non-Australian to be awarded the prestigious Emeritus Professor Eric G. Saint Memorial Award. I know I speak on behalf of our thousands of members, past and present, when I send our very best wishes on this landmark occasion to the IBAS Coordinator and all the members of this worldwide grassroots coalition.”

 


Laurie Kazan-Allen (left) and ADSA Counsellor Rose Marie Vojakovic after the 2012 award presentation in Perth, Australia.

With several asbestos victims’ support groups now in existence in the UK, people forget that the pioneers in this field were a handful of robust souls who deigned to go where few others would dare. The people who founded the Liverpool and District Victims of Asbestos Support Group, now known as the Merseyside Asbestos Victim Support Group (MAVS), in 1993 were amongst them.16 It was therefore extremely gratifying to read the comments of John Flanagan, the Group’s full-time support worker, regarding this milestone anniversary:

“On behalf of all MAVS members, volunteers and staff, we congratulate and thank you and IBAS for the fantastic and groundbreaking work you have done over the past 25 years to secure justice for the millions of people in the UK and abroad who have died from asbestos-related diseases. Incalculable lives have been saved in asbestos ban countries due to the global campaign by IBAS to rid our planet of asbestos.

At home, IBAS has provided invaluable resources to MAVS and has been our first port of call for international contacts and links. So many memories came flooding back as I remembered the many joint initiatives: the protests outside the Houses of Parliament, Number 10 and the Russian embassy; the inaugural and subsequent meetings of the Parliamentary Asbestos Sub-Group; the blustery Action Mesothelioma Days; the conferences in Brazil, Poland, Japan and Belgium. It has been a great privilege to share these moments with our international colleagues. None of this would have been possible without the organization, perseverance and support of IBAS.”

 


MAVS John Flanagan front row (red tie); IBAS Coordinator Laurie Kazan-Allen 2nd row (blue jacket).

All through the inglorious decades during which asbestos stakeholders held sway, no one suffered more than construction workers, employees at asbestos factories, boilermakers, insulators, and tradespeople in and out of the shipyards. For this reason, IBAS has from the start made common cause with local and national chapters of trade unions, NGOs affiliated with trade unions, trade union federations and global union federations. Feedback from union colleagues on the occasion of the 25th anniversary has been fulsome with Rory O’Neill, the International Trade Union Confederation’s Health Safety and Labor Standards Adviser, writing:

“When it comes to asbestos, IBAS has been the global labour movement’s research department, go-to expert and source of unparalleled intelligence on asbestos industry trends, activities and dirty dealings. For a quarter of a century, the scope of the work has been extraordinary – supporting organising activities worldwide, being the most reliable and proactive source on asbestos industry lobbying and working always without payment and usually without credit. Whether it has been challenging the industry at the UN or outside a factory, IBAS has been ever-present and irreplaceable. Without IBAS, progress on the mission to end asbestos trade and associated disease for good – which has been considerable – would have been slower and with the cost paid in lives. Many wins may not have been possible. Which means IBAS has saved lives and unions, families and communities have the greatest possible reason to be grateful. I, we, owe IBAS a great deal. For many, their lives have depended on it.”

 


Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) International Conference on Asbestos. Vienna, Austria. May 6 & 7, 2014. Photo courtesy of the BWI.

As an organization representing 1.5 million members at high-risk of contracting asbestos-related diseases, the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW) was a natural partner for IBAS. Commenting on his personal interactions with IBAS, Rolf Gehring – the EFBWW’s Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health and Vocational Education – said:

“Parallel worlds joined together. It was at a Brussels hearing in connection with the European Parliament’s own initiative report on Asbestos (2013) where I first met Laurie Kazan-Allen from IBAS. A determined person with extensive knowledge of asbestos issues, the global asbestos trade and the growing international movement against the production and use of this deadly material. This encounter was the beginning of a strong and fruitful collaboration on projects in Europe and overseas. The EFBWW profited from the experience and knowledge of IBAS throughout its campaigns to raise asbestos awareness and achieve a deadline for the eradication of asbestos from Europe’s built environment. Some of the other positive outcomes of this relationship included: the publication of the monograph: Asbestos-related occupational diseases in Central and East European Countries (2013), which was translated into 14 EU languages; an international asbestos conference in Vienna (2014); the conference “Freeing Europe Safely from Asbestos” at the European Commission, Brussels (2015); and the sustained support for asbestos victims in Casale Monferrato, Italy. IBAS is an international resource when it comes to asbestos, some fear it, many more love it.”

IBAS Back Catalogue

One of the main aims of IBAS was to make manifest the impact of asbestos exposures on occupational and public health. In the information vacuum which existed in 1999, asbestos industry lobbyists still alleged that asbestos could be used safely “under controlled conditions;” in some places, they still do! We knew this was a lie but had to gather the ammunition needed so that international agencies, national authorities and regional bodies could take decisive action.

We did this by working with grassroots colleagues to collect the evidence and document case studies demonstrating the human cost of asbestos industry profits. The series of monographs, peer-reviewed papers and asbestos editions of international journals IBAS produced did just that. For the first time, a forensic examination was made of the situation in countries around the world and was reported in English.

 


A few IBAS information resources

In fact, dozens of copies of the 2003 special issue: The Asbestos War of the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health edited by the IBAS coordinator and featuring papers from members of the IBAS coalition were distributed to United Nations delegates to the Conference of the Parties (COP) to The Rotterdam Convention on the prior informed consent procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade which met for the 1st time in September 2004.17 Many of our monographs and articles have been reproduced in Bengali, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian.

Our 2012 publication: Eternit and the Great Asbestos Trial was another trailblazer as it was the first English text published about the Eternit asbestos group, an industrial conglomerate responsible for ill health and premature deaths all over the world; it was translated into Portuguese, Japanese and Thai, becoming the first publications in those languages exposing the deadly secrets of Eternit’s asbestos operations in Brazil, Belgium, France, Italy, Japan and the Netherlands.

 


The original English text and translations of Eternit and the Great Asbestos Trial.

Concluding Thoughts

How to sum up 25 years – a veritable lifetime – of relationships, conversations, memories, trips, research, victories and setbacks. Every day brought new challenges and new experiences: most good, a few not so good. There were many lessons learned along the long and winding road – yes, we loved the Beatles too – which led to this anniversary:

  • no one ever gave asbestos victims anything they didn’t fight for;
  • wherever rights have been obtained, they will be attacked;
  • victims, their families and communities play a vital role in the campaign to ban asbestos;
  • we are stronger together than we are apart.

From the inception of IBAS, it was clear that our diversity was the foundation on which to build regional and international action campaigns. Respecting our differences was key and one size never did not fit all. If in years to come IBAS is remembered for just one thing, I hope it is our respect for the unique challenges faced by each sufferer, family, community, region and country. Together, we created a beautiful multicolored grassroots patchwork movement to amplify our clarion call: The Future is Asbestos Free.

 


In the days after the whirlwind which was the Global Asbestos Congress 2000 (GAC2000) – the world’s first gathering of asbestos victims, campaigning groups and international experts – the inspiration and soul of the Congress Fernanda Giannasi said:

“The results and reverberations of the conference will take months and even longer to become clear. The connections made during our days in Osasco and the network which was born will almost certainly bear fruit. We just need to be patient, keep talking and organizing.”

How right she was!

November 28, 2024

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1 Kazan-Allen, L. Taking the Asian Battle to Ban Asbestos Online! October 13, 2021.
http://ibasecretariat.org/lka-taking-the-asian-battle-to-ban-asbestos-online.php

2 Kazan-Allen, L. Marking the 15th Anniversary of the Asian Ban Asbestos Network. April 29, 2024.
http://ibasecretariat.org/lka-marking-the-15th-anniversary-of-the-asian-ban-asbestos-network.php
Kazan-Allen, L. IBAS Report: Asian Asbestos Conference 2009. [Page 43 & 44]
http://ibasecretariat.org/hk_report_web_fin.pdf

3 IBAS. Current Asbestos Bans.
http://ibasecretariat.org/alpha_ban_list.php
IBAS. Chronology of Asbestos Bans and Restrictions.
http://ibasecretariat.org/chron_ban_list.php

4 Kazan-Allen, L. Pressure Builds for Asbestos Ban in Mexico! October 24, 2024.
http://ibasecretariat.org/lka-pressure-builds-for-asbestos-ban-in-mexico.php

5 IBAS. Asbestos Policies of Major International Agencies. Accessed November 1, 2024.
http://ibasecretariat.org/lka_asb_polic_maj_int_agencies.php

6 Kazan-Allen, L. From Asbestos to Val-des-Sources. October 1, 2020.
http://ibasecretariat.org/lka-from-asbestos-to-val-des-sources.php

7 Collegium Ramazzini. Ramazzini Award. Accessed November 2, 2024.
https://www.collegiumramazzini.org/awards/ramazzini-award

8 Email received on November 2, 2024 from Professor Ken Takahashi, Japan.

9 Kazan-Allen, L. October 18, 2011: A Bloody Anniversary. October, 2011.
http://ibasecretariat.org/lka-a-bloody-anniversary-2011.php

10 Kazan-Allen, L. October 18, 2011: A Bloody Anniversary. Text of a paper presented on October 18, 2011 at a press conference in Ottawa, Canada.
http://ibasecretariat.org/lka-paper-ottawa-press-conf-oct-18-2011.pdf

11 Galloway, G. Documents detail Mulroney-era efforts to block U.S. asbestos ban. October 18, 2011.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/documents-detail-mulroney-era-efforts-to-block-us-asbestos-ban/article619496/

12 Sher, J. WHO rebukes would-be Quebec asbestos magnate. October 17, 2024
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/who-rebukes-would-be-quebec-asbestos-magnate/article4183948/

13 Kazan-Allen, L. Corporate Deceit: Asbestos Espionage at Home and Abroad. March 18, 2019.
http://ibasecretariat.org/lka-corporate-deceit-asbestos-espionage-at-home-and-abroad.php

14 Международный диктат большинства: зачем нужен БРИКС? [International Dictate of the Majority: Why Do We Need BRICS?] November 6, 2024.
https://finance.rambler.ru/economics/53692383/?utm_content=finance_media&utm_medium=read_more&utm_source=copylink

15 Kazan-Allen, L. In Memory of Jock McCulloch. January 21, 2018.
http://ibasecretariat.org/lka-in-memory-of-jock-mcculloc.php

16 Kazan-Allen, L. Merseyside Asbestos Victims Support Group: A Force for Change. Issue 89. The British Asbestos Newsletter, Winter 2012-2013.
https://www.britishasbestosnewsletter.org/ban89.htm

17 According to the Rotterdam Convention website, at COP1 the hazardous designation of four types of asbestos – actinolite, anthophyllite, amosite and tremolite – was agreed. The listing of chrysotile (white) asbestos on Annex III of the Convention has not yet been accomplished due to the intransigence of asbestos vested interests.
https://www.pic.int/TheConvention/ConferenceoftheParties/Meetings/COP1/tabid/1110/language/en-US/Default.aspx

Appendix

IBAS Milestones 1999-2024

 

 

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