Press Releases

11 June 2022, Quezon City.  The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition lauded the decision by the world’s governments to add PFHxS to the Stockholm Convention’s list of banned persistent organic pollutants (POPs) with no exemptions. PFHxS, or perfluorohexane sulfonic acid,…

In a joint appeal to members of the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a broad civil society alliance from 20 countries has called on the European governments to grant protection and asylum to Russian and…

This Sunday 5th June 2022 the International Humanist Party (IHP) transmitted live through its Facebook Live page (https://www.facebook.com/eci.phi) a Conversation on Universalist Humanism and the Environment. This virtual space for joint reflection was attended by JOSE RAFAEL QUESADA (Costa Rica)…

BAN Toxics signals the alarm following the 6.6 sale of various online shopping sites on banned mercury-laden skin lightening creams. In time for 6.6 mid-year sale promos by various online shopping platforms, 17-year-old student, youth volunteer and BT Patroller Mary…

5 June 2022, Quezon City.  As World Environment Day is celebrated, non-profit groups campaigning for a zero waste and toxics-free society pressed the Government of the Philippines to back stricter limits for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in waste to avoid…

This is how the artisanal fishermen of CONDEPP (Consejo Nacional por la Defensa del Patrimonio Pesquero A.G.) reacted after what the President of the Republic said in his public account on Wednesday, indicating that “in terms of fishing and aquaculture…

On the closure of the investigation into the carabineros linked to the Meiggs shopkeepers’ delinquency This Monday May 30, 2022, with great surprise and profound disappointment we learned through the press, in an interview with the head of the Metropolitan…

Lobby action means privatisation of health care They were awarded 70% of the contracts; almost 800 million euros. IDIS Foundation, Spain Health Foundation, ANEFP and Farmaindustria, the most favoured The privatisation of Madrid’s public health system exceeded previous years’ figures…

Justice finally prevailed after decades of waiting for the victims of the Marcopper mining tragedy. We celebrate with the people of Marinduque, with the local environmental defenders led by the Marinduque Council for Environmental Concerns (MACEC), and their legal representatives,…

1 June 2022, Quezon City.  Various civil society groups have joined forces to call for a global ban on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) ahead of World Environment Day.  Also known as the “forever chemicals,” PFAS do not break down…