{"id":4367,"date":"2019-06-24T17:58:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T21:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2024-05-03T17:43:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T00:43:39","slug":"canada-should-stop-opposing-a-un-ban-on-exporting-waste-to-developing-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/?p=4367","title":{"rendered":"Canada should stop opposing a UN ban on exporting waste to developing countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcel.org\/sites\/default\/files\/logo.png\" alt=\"Home\"><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a guest post by Kathleen Ruff, Director of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RightOnCanada.ca<\/a>. With support from our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcel.org\/edrf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund (EDRF)<\/a>, Kathleen sought a legal opinion to determine whether Canada\u2019s refusal to bring back Canadian wastes exported to the Philippines violated international law.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more here:<\/strong> https:\/\/www.wcel.org\/blog\/canada-should-stop-opposing-un-ban-exporting-waste-developing-countries<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wcel.org\/sites\/default\/files\/ecowastecoalition_philippines.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Credit: Ecowaste Philippines \"><em>Photo:&nbsp;Ecowaste Coalition of the Philippines<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a guest post by Kathleen Ruff, Director of&nbsp;RightOnCanada.ca. With support from our&nbsp;Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund (EDRF), Kathleen sought a legal opinion to determine whether Canada\u2019s refusal to bring back Canadian wastes exported to the Philippines violated international law. Read more here: https:\/\/www.wcel.org\/blog\/canada-should-stop-opposing-un-ban-exporting-waste-developing-countries Photo:&nbsp;Ecowaste Coalition of the Philippines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basel-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4597,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions\/4597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}