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This video explains the urgency of acting to eliminate obsolete and POPs pesticides, better yesterday than tomorrow and describes briefly the action plan proposed by IHPA to be implemented by EU Commission together with international agencies.

Go to IHPA video section or watch it on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdHZ6Q7oUqI

Support needed: Resolution on Improvement of health through sound management of obsolete pesticides and other obsolete chemicals, now on the Agenda of the 63. WHA (World Health Assembly) on 17. – 22. May, 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland

Resolution on Improvement of health through sound management of obsolete pesticides and other obsolete chemicals

Dear All,

End of January, Executive Board Meeting of the World Health Assembly has in decided in January 2010 to put the Resolution on Improvement of health through sound management of obsolete pesticides and other obsolete chemicals, on the Agenda of the 63. WHA (World Health Assembly) which will take place on 17. – 22. May, 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland.

The adoption of this resolution could lead to a major breakthrough and political consequences in the work to solve the problems in the Central, Eastern European, Caucasus and Central Asia region.

It may be clear that all governmental representatives of the respective Ministries of Health from the Caucasus and Central Asian countries attending the WHA in May of the region strongly should support this resolution.

Please inform your representatives and request them to strongly support this for your countries so important resolutions.

Many regards

Yours
John
John Vijgen
www.ihpa.info

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This gallery explains the various reasons of the exhibition “Exhibition Obsolete and POPs Pesticides in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia” held at the COP-4 in Geneva, in May 2009 and at the 10th Int. HCH and Pesticides Forum, September 2009 in Brno, Czech Republic.

The preparation was made by IHPA and PAN Germany and it was sponsored by GTZ, Convention Project Chemical Safety, Germany.

Download the presentation: 2009_Exhibition_ObsolPest_090728PPTPresentationFINAL

This exhibition can be used free of charge. Only the costs of transport have to be covered by you.
To lend the exhibition please contact:
GTZ
Sector Project „Chemical Safety“
Division 45 – Agriculture, Fisheries and Food PO Box 5180
65726 Eschborn
Germany
Wolfgang.Schimpf@gtz.de

This map is made to give an insight on the countries that have produced Lindane and have generated larger stockpiles of HCH-waste and the approximate amounts.

It must be stated that these data need further verification. They are all based on the IHPA report submitted to the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention in 2006. It is expected that further investigations will generate more detailed information about locations and exact extent of the individual stockpiles.

Any information about stockpiles in the countries shown or other countries that might own HCH-stockpikes, can be forwarded to the Secretariat at john.vijgen@ihpa.info. Updates will be periodically included in the map.