Geneva, Thụy Sỹ- Ngày 29 tháng 4 năm 2019 tại Geneva, Thụy Sỹ đã khai mạc Hội nghị các bên tham gia 03 Công ước về môi trường, gồm: Công ước Stockholm về các chất ô nhiễm hữu cơ khó phân hủy (lần thứ 9); Công ước Rotterdam về các thủ tục thông báo trước đối với một số hóa chất và thuốc bảo vệ thực vật nguy hại trong thương mại quốc tế (lần thứ 9) và Công ước Basel về Kiểm soát chất thải xuyên biên giới (lần thứ 14). Thông điệp chính của Hội nghị các bên tham gia năm nay là: “Hành tinh sạch, mọi người khoẻ mạnh: Quản lý lành mạnh Hoá chất và Chất thải”
CGFED cùng các thành viên Mạng lưới IPEN vận động các bên liên quan hành động để bảo vệ sức khoẻ của con người và môi trường khỏi hoá chất và rác thải độc hại, đặc biệt là sức khoẻ trẻ em.
CGFED đã tham gia đóng góp cùng các CSOs khác cho bản Intervention về “Giới và Quản lý hóa chất”
Thank you, Mr. President. We are speaking on behalf of women everywhere who are impacted by chemicals and waste. We are women from Asia who are the majority of the workforce in electronics and textile manufacturing. We are Indigenous women whose traditional foods are being contaminated with environmental toxics globally. We are women from industrialized countries that are exposed to harmful chemicals daily in our products. We are women who work in the agricultural fields in Africa and Latin America and are directly exposed to harmful pesticides that we carry home to our families. We are the women in Africa who are exposed to burned plastic´s fumes used to light the cooking fire.
Exposure to toxic chemicals damages not just women’s physical, mental and reproductive health but also determines their status in their society. In that regard, we welcome the decision taken by this COP to add Dicofol to Annex A to the Stockholm Convention without exemptions. This is a very important step to reduce women’s exposure to toxics.
Just to keep in mind: Men, are also affected. As we have heart from the firefighters, where the majority still are men, that they suffer from an increasing rate of cancer. And: PFOA and PFOS is also correlated with reduction of semen quality and testicular volume.
Getting back to women: The gender action plan has been updated. However, it is still inadequate and fails to take into account the critical impacts of chemicals on women’s bodies.
Women have to be fully represented in studies and projects concerning chemical exposures and health outcomes.
Women are still underrepresented in decision-making about chemical safety, waste, and environment, here and in other chemical processes. This imbalance of power and injustice must be corrected.
The slogan of this meeting is: Healthy planet, healthy people. We expect delegates to make decisions based on science, precaution, and a vision of a toxic-free future for women and all.
Thank you.
Women are still underrepresented in decision-making about chemical safety, waste, and environment, here, and in other chemical negotiation processes. This imbalance of power and injustice must be corrected by setting targets for gender parity at all levels in decision making bodies at member state and UN levels.
We expect delegates to make decisions based on the right to have a healthy life, science, precaution, the achievement of the SDGs and a toxic-free future, for women and all.
Thank you Mr. President.
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