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BRS information platforms expanded to include new portal sharing publications, events and contacts from the network of regional centres, starting with the Basel and Stockholm Regional Centre for Francophone Africa in Dakar, Senegal, as the first new information source and publisher.
Regional Centre in Senegal is the first to operationalise automatic information exchange through the BRS Clearing House Mechanism
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The 43rd Session of the Human Rights Council addresses children’s rights to a healthy environment, as UN report shows that 25% of infant deaths are from preventable, environmental hazards.
85 million children engaged in hazardous labour affecting their health through exposure to toxic substances, says UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
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See Inger Andersen (UNEP), Rolph Payet (BRS), Malcom Johnson (ITU) and Maria Neira (WHO) talk about the newly-launched E-waste Massive Open Online Course.
UN agencies join forces to help meet the world’s growing electronic waste challenge: you can join in too!
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Two webinars open the updated and expanded Massive Open Online Course - or MOOC – on E-waste.
Join efforts to tackle the world’s growing E-waste problem
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BRS Secretariat supports the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Meet the many women of the BRS Science and TA Branch, working for a Clean Planet and Healthy People
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Less than a year after its establishment, the new Plastic Waste Partnership of the Basel Convention meets for the first time at Beau Vallon, the Seychelles, from 2 to 5 March 2020.
First meeting of the new UN Plastic Waste Partnership takes place in the Seychelles
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Eight BRS staff are awarded UN Long Service Awards, ranging from 10 to 25 years, at a ceremony in Geneva.
BRS Secretariat staff recognised by the United Nations for long service
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Final Reports of the meetings of the Conferences of Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm conventions are now online in all 6 UN languages.
All three Final Reports of the 2019 Triple COPs now available
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The Convention will enter into force for Equatorial Guinea on 23 March 2020.
Accession of Equatorial Guinea takes the number of Parties to the Stockholm Convention to 184
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Month-long operation “30 Days at Sea 2.0” involves more than 200 enforcement agencies and detects more than 3,000 serious offences – land-based and maritime - across 61 countries
Global seaborne operation on illegal waste dumping, led by INTERPOL, highlights the scale of plastic waste pollution
Month-long operation “30 Days at Sea 2.0” involves more than 200 enforcement agencies and detects more than 3,000 serious offences – land-based and maritime - across 61 countries
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Government officials from francophone and anglophone countries gather in Dakar, Senegal, 4 to 6 February 2020, with funding generously provided by the European Union, Australia and Germany.
BRS workshop builds negotiating skills within West African governments to enhance implementation of the 3 conventions
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Key document on Prior Informed Consent issued for 50th time, sharing information to assist and inform Parties for better decision-making regarding pesticides and chemicals.
50th edition of the Rotterdam Convention PIC Circular now online
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Watch live the special event in the UN Palais des Nations, which brings together many of the Convention’s 187 Parties to celebrate the strengthening of efforts for implementing this global, legally-binding, international agreement on waste.
Diplomatic community in Geneva marks the entry into force of the Basel Convention’s Ban Amendment
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High-level event on 25 November brings together key global stakeholders including the World Trade Organisation (WTO), World Bank, World Economic Forum (WEF), and China.
BRS Executive Secretary contributes to discussions on “what role for WTO on addressing plastic pollution” in Geneva
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The draft overall guidance document on the environmentally sound management of household waste is now available for comment by Parties and others, by 31 January 2020.
Household waste in the spotlight: opportunity to comment on Basel Convention guidance document
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