Press release Embargoed until 9 March 2016 Despite progress, global mercury agreement undermined by uncontrolled production and trade Groups ask governments to fast track ratification, early implementation of Minamata Treaty Amman, Jordan, 9 March 2016—Commitments toward stronger global mercury controls are being hampered by illegal, unreported and unregulated mercury production and trade, an international NGO coalition revealed today on the […]
Public Letter to President Hernandez of Honduras
At its seventh meeting (Geneva, 4 July 2014), the Task Force on Target Setting and Reporting decided to establish an informal review group to work on an addendum to the Guidelines on the Setting of Targets, Evaluation of Progress and Reporting as well as to define the scope of a possible further revision of the guidelines after the fourth session […]
Armenian Women for Health and Healthy Environment NGO is among signatories.
Please read the call for support to see how you can help the kindergarten of the village of Ditak. Your support is much-needed and will be greatly appreciated. The village of Ditak of Ararat province is located at 20 km from the capital of Armenia. It is considered to be one of the geographically isolated settlements. The village has a […]
On 04 December 2015, AWHHE represented the civil society sector at the inception workshop of the UNDP/GEF on the full sized project “Elimination of obsolete pesticides Stockpiles and addressing POPs contaminated sites within a sound chemicals management framework”. The workshop organized by UNDP-Armenia Office was opened by the Deputy Minister of Ministry of Nature protection RA. UN Resident Coordinator and […]
Уважаемый коллега! Мы обращаемся к Вам за поддержкой в создании Глобального альянса по поэтапному отказу от особо опасных пестицидов (ООП) на предстоящей сессии МКРХВ4 в Женеве.[1] [2] [3] Мы полагаем, что такой альянс, основывающийся на уроках успешного Глобального альянса СПМРХВ за ликвидацию свинца в краске, жизненно важен. Он поможет странам в адекватном обращении с ООП и в их замене таким […]
The fourth session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM4) took place in Geneva from 28 September to 2 October, 2015. ICCM is the governing body of UNEP’s Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM), an Approach which covers all agricultural and industrial chemicals throughout their lifecycle, and reflects environmental, economic, social, health and labour aspects of chemical safety. […]
Nowadays, under conditions of high rate of migration in Armenia, it is of particular importance to improve the conditions for education and development of the rising generation. With a view to contributing to the reconstruction of the school in the village of Ditak of Ararat province, during the period of renovation of the school, the Embassy of Japan granted 110 […]
On the 9th of June 2015, was the opening ceremony of High-Level International Conference on Implementation of International Decade for Action “Water for Life” in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. “Women Water Forum” pre-conference was organized. Co-organisers were: Women for Water Partnership (WfWP), EBRD, Oxfam, UN Women, Global Water Forum (GWF). AWHHE as a member of WfWP had an active role in the […]