AWHHE (a focal point of SAICM) Participates in the First Meeting of the Intersessional Process for Considering SAICM and the Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste Beyond 2020 that opened on Tuesday, 7 February 2017, in Brasilia, Brazil.
The fourth session of the Meeting of the Parties to the UNECE-WHO/Europe Protocol on Water and Health to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes took place on 14-16 November 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting was held in the Palais des Nations, started on Monday, 14 November 2016. Mrs. Emma Anakhasyan AWHHE NGO representative participates…
Measuring progress in achieving equitable access to water and sanitation Date: Monday, 14 November 2016 Time: 13.30-14.30 Venue: Emirates Room (Room XVII) Interpretation: English, French, Russian Background Equitable access is key for the realization of the rights to water and sanitation but also for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 on water. The Protocol on Water and…
Date: 27 October 2016, 16:00 p.m. Event: Meeting with participation of different concerned ministries, organizations and NGOs Venue: UNICEF, UN office in Armenia, c. Yerevan Title of presentation: “Summary of results of research on lead in enamel paints sold in Armenia” Speaker: Mrs. Knarik Grigoryan, “Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment” NGO expert on chemical safety
(Gothenburg, Sweden) Many decorative paints sold in over 40 low- and middle-income countries contained dangerous levels of lead, sometimes in direct violation of national regulation, according to a new report released by IPEN today. The report, Global Lead Paint Report, brings together data from paint studies conducted since 2009 in 46 low- and middle-income countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America…
29 June 2016 The OSCE Office in Yerevan presented a prize to Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment non-governmental organization (AWHHE) for their project to improve entrepreneurial skills and income generating capacities of female farmers through the use of solar fruit- and herb-drying equipment and technologies. Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan gave awards to twelve women entrepreneurs in the following…
Yerevan Aarhus Center, June 2, 2016 Recent studies show that there are a large number of chemicals capable of disrupting the endocrine system. Penetrating into the human body by different routes of exposure, the endocrine disruptors (EDCs) act in an irregular manner, mimicking, blocking, or altering the natural hormones and their signaling systems. Endocrine disruptors are linked to a wide…
The joint side event organized by WECF and partner NGOs from Armenia (AWHHE), Kyrgyzstan (ALGA), Georgia (RCDA) on 10 June- “Emerging Environmental Health Challenges in the UNECE Region” during the Eighth Ministerial Conference, 8-10 June, Batumi, Georgia, 2016. Summary report
According to UNEP (http://www.unep.org/dewa/Africa/publications/AEO-2/content/203.htm ) armed conflict has multiple, long- and short-term impacts on development, and on environmental and human well-being. The affects are felt at various spatial levels. Conflict undercuts or destroys environmental, physical, human and social capital, diminishing available opportunities for sustainable development. Conflict impacts on human well-being, reducing quality of life, the capabilities of people to live the…