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EcoWaste Coalition Warns vs. Baby Wipes with Prohibited Health-Damaging Ingredients
26 May 2024, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has again raised the red flag over the persistent sale of imported baby wipes containing allergy-causing preservatives banned many years ago by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to…
Illegal Trading of Prohibited Beauty Products Proliferates in Tuguegarao City
Toxic watchdog group BAN Toxics warns the public against the continuous selling of banned and prohibited beauty products in Tuguegarao City. In a recent market monitoring conducted by the group, they managed to purchase and document the proliferation of skin…
Digital Journalist Gunned Down, Pakistan Continues to Lose Media Persons to Assailants
Geneva: Expressing utter dismay over the third media person to be killed in Pakistan within this month, the global media safety and rights body, Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), urges the federal government in Islamabad to take serious note of the…
Collaborating Across Cultures: Equipping Graduate Students for Effective Research Partnerships
by : Audrey M. Calines, Myra Sol M. Calicdan, and Bernadette Manuel Orie May 11, 2024. In celebration of the 30th anniversary of CHED CAR and the 4th Higher Education Day, PHAS 403, EDMGT 404 classes, and the Student Services…
Inception Workshop Kicks-Off in Cagayan Valley to Address Healthcare Waste Challenges
23 May 2024, Tuguegarao City – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources – Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) and environmental NGO BAN Toxics kicked off its series of Regional Inception Meetings and Validation Workshops for The Philippine Healthcare and Mercury…
Expecting a Dawn in Northeast India Healthcare
Providing value-added healthcare facilities to everyone with a reasonable expenditure can create a magical world, where the prevention of epidemics, reduction of the burden from non-communicable diseases, and improvement of healthcare management for women, children, and elderly individuals will be…
PPFA Demands Punishment for Suspected Bangladeshis Involved in Bodo Girls’ Rape, Youth’s Murder
Guwahati: Expressing shock and dismay over the horrible Dudhnoi incident, where two teenage girls were gang-raped and a youth was killed by a group of hooligans, a nationalist forum in northeast India demands a stringent punishment for those criminals. Patriotic…
Quezon City Health Department Steps Up Drive to Promote Business Compliance with Laws Banning Mercury Cosmetics
22 May 2024, Quezon City. Mercury-containing skin-lightening products are dangerous to human health and the environment. The continued sale of such products goes against national and city laws, as well as the Minamata Convention on Mercury. This was emphasized by…
EcoWaste Coalition Finds Toxic Lead in Jesus Nazareno Medallions, Commends Quiapo Church for Acting on Its Findings
21 May 2024, Quezon City. The EcoWaste Coalition, an advocacy group for a zero waste and toxics-free society, has detected excessive lead on religious medallions with an embossed face of Jesus Christ crowned with thorns in front and the words…
Another Journalist Killed in Pakistan, PEC Demands Probe
Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over the killing of another journalist in Pakistan within a fortnight and demands a fair probe into the incident. Mehar Ashfaq Siyal was shot dead…
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