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The current regulations only apply to a subset of hazardous e-waste.

The 90-page report, “Trading Lives for Profit: How the Shipping Industry Circumvents Regulations to Scrap Toxic Ships on Bangladesh’s Beaches” finds that Bangladeshi shipbreaking yards often take shortcuts on safety measures, dump toxic waste directly onto the beach and the surrounding environment, and deny workers living wages, rest, or compensation in case of injuries. The report reveals an entire network used by shipowners to circumvent international regulations prohibiting the export of ships to facilities like those in Bangladesh that do not have adequate environmental or labor prot...

Farmworkers in Paarl, South Africa demand the end to the importation and use of agrochemicals prohibited by the European Union (EU). This protest is part of a broader global trend of outcry against systemic issues of environmental racism that disproportionately burden communities with environmental and health risks. 

A special UN mission to SA has slammed the continuing legacy of environmental racism that has harmed socially and economically vulnerable people.

This week marks the start of the Meetings of the Conferences of the Parties (COP) to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions (BRS). The event