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Monday, December 20, 2010

CALL FOR GLOBAL BAN ON ENDOSULFAN

 



  The Asia- Pacific regional meeting of the International Union of Food Workers (IUF) demanded a global
ban on Endosulfan on thursday 16th December,2010.
     Representatives of agricultural trade unions and plantation workers attending the two day meeting at Thiruvananthapuram urged India to support the inclusion of Endosulfan in the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants. The unions called for global ban also paraquat-a toxic chemical with no antidote the use of which has been associated with Parkinson disease.
    INDIA SHOULD RECOGNIZE ITS ROLE AS GLOBAL STEWARD,BEING THE COUNTRY WITH ONE THE LARGEST POPULATION OF AGRICULTURE AND PLANTATION WORKERS

 Prof.John Kurakar

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