17/03/2024

Donation up to CHF 10 000 (ten thousand) of THE SOURIRE VERS l’AVENIR FOUNDATION to ARMENIAN WOMEN FOR HEALTH AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT NGO FOR PROVIDING SUPPORT TO REFUGEE FAMILIES FROM ARTSAKH.

December 2023 – January 2024 AWHHE successfully completed the project for Artsakh refugees families, supported by SWISS Fund. The list of target families for financial support (100 000 AMD each family) was developed on the base of the information received from the Center of refugees of Artsakh and analyzed by AWHHE to find the most vulnerable families with 2 and…

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21/11/2023

INC-3 on plastic pollution

The third session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-3) took place from 13 to 19 November 2023 at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. At the outset of INC-3, the Zero Draft was a balanced document, reflecting different points of view and…

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21/11/2023

COP-5 of the Minamata Convention on Mercury

The fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-5) of the Minamata Convention on Mercury held in Geneva, Switzerland from October 30 to November 3, 2023. While commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Convention, the parties also considered decisions that will define success in its second decade. Parties agreed to update Annexes A and B of the Convention to…

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14/11/2023

AWHHE Endorses Future Plastic Treaty Opening Statement

Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment (AWHHE) proudly supports the opening statement presented by a coalition of NGOs at the International Negotiating Committee (INC 3). The statement emphasizes the need for a future plastic treaty with binding transparency and traceability requirements for chemicals in plastic materials. AWHHE recognizes the importance of a globally harmonized chemical transparency mechanism for a…

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22/10/2023

Pushing forward Elimination of Lead Paints to End Childhood Lead Poisoning

The International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN: for a toxics-free future) held the annual International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week this year from October 22 to 28 that will put the spot light on lead, a major toxic threat to public health. With the end goal of protecting the health of children and other vulnerable groups such as women of reproductive age…

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06/10/2023

Summary report, 23–29 September 2023, 5th International Conference on Chemicals Management and Resumed 4th Meeting of the Intersessional Process for Considering SAICM and the Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Beyond 2020

https://enb.iisd.org/iccm5-saicm-intersessional-process-resumed-4-sound-management-chemicals-waste-beyond-2020-summary   At 10:20 am on Saturday morning, 30 September 2023, the remaining exhausted delegates who had worked through the night and into the morning cheered as they formally adopted the new global framework for the integrated management of chemicals and waste, the Global Framework on Chemicals – For a planet free of harm from chemicals and waste. The fifth…

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09/06/2023

As global Plastics Treaty negotiations resume in Paris, scientific evidence overwhelmingly points to an urgent need to reduce plastic production and use to meet social justice, health and environmental imperatives

23 May 2023   WASHINGTON (May 24, 2023)—A new report from Greenpeace USA provides a catalog of peer-reviewed research and international studies concluding that recycling actually increases the toxicity of plastics. It highlights the threat that recycled plastics pose to the health of consumers, frontline communities, and workers in the recycling sector. Along with previous research showing that very little plastic reaches…

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