Health
EcoWaste Coalition Drums Up Support for Urgent and Decisive Action to Ban Mercury-Added Cosmetics — Forever
29 October 2023, Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition appealed to all parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury to come up with united decisions that will lead to the elimination of all mercury-added cosmetics from the face…
Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s draft Safeguards Policy Falls Short on Ambition
GAIA Asia Pacific Calls for Stronger Safeguards 27 October 2023 – The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Asia Pacific, a network of 120 grassroots alliances in the region, said that the recently released Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) draft Environmental…
REHUNO Health receives the award for Awareness and Communication in Palliative Care
On the occasion of the World Day of Palliative Care, the “Together we care better” Awards Forum was held on October 17th in the Auditorium of the Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid, organised by the organisation Al final de…
Green Groups: Some Spray Paints Sold in Davao City Contain Toxic Lead
26 October 2023, Davao City/Quezon City. Environmental health groups, Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustainability (IDIS), and the EcoWaste Coalition have deplored the illegal sale of some paint products with high lead content in Davao City, Philippines. Based on the sampling…
EcoWaste Coalition’s Plea: Make Halloween Plastic- and Toxics-Free
23 October 2023, Quezon City. The EcoWaste Coalition, a non-government organization (NGO) working for a zero waste and toxics-free society, appealed to organizers of trick-or-treat events to make Halloween a healthy and safe experience for children, as well as the…
BAN Toxics joins the International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week of Action to End Childhood Lead Poisoning in PH
“Approximately half of the Philippines’ 40 million children in 2021 have blood lead levels exceeding the 5 micrograms per deciliter (μg/dL) standard set by the World Health Organization, according to estimates by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, a…
Despite Progress Made, Study Finds Some Leaded Paints Still Sold in the Philippine Market
EcoWaste Coalition and IPEN Push for Improved Compliance Monitoring and Other Measures to Advance Lead Paint Ban 21 October 2023. Despite the notable progress in banning lead in paint manufacturing, a new study found lead in some solvent-based decorative and…
Do No Harm: GAIA Asia Pacific Pushes for Robust Environmental and Social Safeguards in Philippine Sustainable Finance Guidelines
19 October 2023 – The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Asia Pacific formally submitted its position on the proposed Philippine Sustainable Finance Taxonomy Guidelines (SFTG) to prevent the financing of industries that are harmful to the objectives of circular…
EcoWaste Coalition Campaigns for Clean and Eco-Friendly Elections
17 October 2023, Manila City/Quezon City. The EcoWaste Coalition, an advocacy group for a zero waste and toxics-free society, made a last-ditch appeal to candidates running for elective Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan posts to think of Mother Earth as they…
Gaza, MSF: “Hospitals overloaded, medical supplies almost exhausted and limited access to drinking water”
15 October 2023 – In the north of the Gaza Strip the situation is dramatic, hospitals are overloaded and drugs and painkillers are running out. The wounded scream in pain, while those who need treatment are unable to reach hospitals…
Book catalogue
War in Ukraine
Training in Nonviolent Journalism
Documentary Catalogue
Every Sunday
#freethepoet
