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Rotterdam Convention: No progress on democratic right to be protected from hazardous substances

7. May 2017

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Kathleen Ruff, RightOnCanada.ca The 8th Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention (COP8) ended on May 5, 2017. It will be two years before the next conference takes place in 2019. Ever since the Convention came into beginning, the asbestos industry has refused to allow chrysotile asbestos to be put on the Convention’s list […]

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