Stockholm – Where the Water World Meets The World Water Week in Stockholm is the leading annual global meeting place for the world’s diverse water community. The World Water Week includes the Stockholm Water Symposium, topical plenary sessions and panel debates, scientific workshops, independently organised seminars and side events, exhibitions and festive prize ceremonies. Participants in Stockholm will be experts…
Problem Our presentation on the problem of using dangerous pesticides in agriculture has a form of theatrical performance. It is done within the framework of “Towards Toxic Free Future” project in order to challenge the problem. Goal The goal of this presentation is to raise public awareness and to encourage public participation in the pesticides use reduction. The performance based…
May, 26-28, 2005 Sofia, Bulgaria Technical Field: SOIL & GROUNDWATER WASTE & RECYCLING Main topics: 1. State of obsolete pesticides in Balkan Countries and other Eastern European and Central Asia Countries. 2. Monitoring and risk assessment of pollution by obsolete pesticides. 3. Sustainable waste management of obsolete pesticides. 4. Waste distruction/conservation techniques for obsolete pesticides. 5. Phytoremediation of pesticides…
17-19 May 2005 Ljubljana, Slovenia The aim of the meeting is to facilitate Central and Eastern Europe regional coordination on development of SAICM, particularly in preparation for SAICM PrepCom3. Web: http://www.chem.unep.ch/saicm/
CEHCA – 2005, Children’s Environmental Health in Central Asia CEHCA-2005 is a major conference on environmental threats to the health of children, to be held in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 25-28 April 2005. This conference will focus on children’s environmental health issues in the region from Central Asia through the Middle East and Transcaucasia . The conference will gather together more…
Pesticides and Poverty €1.3 Million to Involve African Farmers and Poisoning Victims in International Agreements London, 30 March 2005 The high cost of unregulated pesticide use on farmers’ health and the global environment has finally reached international attention. The Pesticide Action Network (PAN), an international alliance of over 600 civil society, environment, and farmers’ organisations worldwide, is launching a 1.3…
MONDIAL PARTNERSHIP “WOMEN FOR WATER” COMBATS POVERTY THROUGH WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN WATER MANAGEMENT On the eve of International Women´s Day 2005, a unique working conference took place in the Netherlands . A large variety of women´s organisations from the South, the North, the East and the West had united their forces and during two days worked intensively with experts from…
The conference “Women for Safe and Sustanable Environment” took place on the 11th of February in the UN building Organized by: WOMEN IN EUROPE FOR A COMMON FUTURE (WECF) ARMENIAN WOMEN FOR HEALTH AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT (AWHHE) Friday 11th, February 2005 12:00 Registration 12:30 Welcome ElenaManvelyan – AWHHE Sascha Gabizon – WECF 12:45 Sascha Gabizon – Introduction of the TMF…
Download Vienna Declaration of Environmental Standards for Healthcare Facilities in English (MS WORD format – 90KB), Armenian (MS WORD format – 50 KB / PDF – 343 KB) and Russian (MS WORD format – 50KB / PDF – 386 KB). “CleanMed Europe” is the first international healthcare congress on sustainable products and practices in Europe. CleanMed has already been a huge…