Global Educational Resources

Collegium Ramazzini Statement: Asbestos Is Still With Us: Repeat Call for a Universal Ban

Environmental Health Perspectives: “A Worn-Out Welcome: Renewed Call for a Global Ban on Asbestos” (2010)

World Health Organization: Asbestos Fact sheet N°343 (2010)

World Health Organization: Preventing Disease through Healthy Environments (2010)

World Health Organization: The national strategic plan and actions for prevention and control of asbestos related diseases in Thailand (2010)

World Health Organization: Elimination of Asbestos-Related Diseases (2006)

International Labour Organization: Asbestos: Towards a Worldwide Ban (2006)

The Center for Public Integrity: Dangers in the Dust: Inside the Global Asbestos Trade (2010)

Environmental Health Perspectives: “A Worn-Out Welcome: Renewed Call for a Global Ban on Asbestos” (2010)

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC):  A review of Human Carcinogens (March 2009)

United States Surgeon General: Asbestos Awareness Statement (April 2009)

FEATURED VIDEOS
México Ban Asbestos (Spanish)
Los abogados de México Ban Asbestos hablan encima sobre de la exportación Canadiense mortal del asbesto

Asbestos in Mexico (English)
Mexico Ban Asbestos Advocates Speak Up about Deadly Canadian Asbestos Exportation

THE CALL TO THE AMERICAS – BAN ASBESTOS NOW!
Nothing is more important than the sanctity of human life. As representatives from the U.S., Canada, and Brazil gather together for the 6th annual conference of the Asbestos Diseases Awareness Organization on April 10, 2010 we affirm our determination to end the misery caused by asbestos. In pursuit of this objective, we have issued The Call to the Americas – Ban Asbestos Now.

Call for the Americas – Ban Asbestos Now!
Call for the Americas – Ban Asbestos Now! Spanish
Call for the Americas – Ban Asbestos Now! French
Call for the Americas – Ban Asbestos Now! Portuguese