The Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Hazardous Substances and Wastes report to the UN Human Rights Council in in September 2018 will focus on the rights of workers and toxic chemical exposure. According to the ILO, nearly two million workers per year – or three workers per minute –…
Denmark and Greenland, 2017
Report to be presented to UN Human Rights Council in September 2018 Key issues: Conduct of business outside Denmark & extraterritorial obligations, including pesticide exports and exports of end-of-life ships (shipbreaking); child rights and toxic chemicals, in particular endocrine disrupting chemicals; hazardous waste disposal by United States military in Greenland;…
Guidelines to Good Practices
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes (A/HRC/36/41) Download report here: Good Practice Guidelines Over the past several decades, many States have made welcome progress in reducing the impacts of toxics. However, this progress…
United Kingdom, 2017
Report of the Special Rapporteur on his mission to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (A/HRC/36/41/Add.2) Table of Contents Introduction Governance Overview Consequences…
Sierra Leone, 2017
Report to be presented to UN Human Rights Council in September 2018 Key issues: Industrial chemical, pesticide, and waste management in least developed countries; poverty and pollution; child rights and toxic exposures to hazardous substances; pollution from extractive industries and palm oil production; and business responsibilities. End-of-visit statement 25 August…
Pesticides and the Right to Food
Pesticides and right to food In a new report by the Special Rapporteur on Food, Dr. Hilal Elver, written in collaboration with the Special Rapporteur on Toxics, a clearer account is provided of global pesticide use in agriculture and its impact on human rights; the negative consequences that pesticide practices have…
Duty to prevent childhood exposure
Link to the 2016 report to UN Human Rights Council on Rights of Child and Toxics (A/HRC/33/41) For all UN language versions, click here The best interests of the child should be at the heart of decision making when it comes to protecting children’s rights to life, survival and development, health, freedom from…