Negotiations for an international treaty to limit the use of mercury should seek to protect the health rights of artisanal gold mining communities, Human Rights Watch said today, in advance of a new round of meetings on the treaty in Uruguay. The meetings are scheduled for June 27 to July 2, 2012, under the purview of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Governments plan to adopt the treaty in late 2013. (...)

The article:
http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/06/25/mercury-treaty-ban-mercury-use-child-gold-miners

The Report:
http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/related_material/Mercury_A%20Health%20and%20Human%20Rights%20Issue_%20Towards%20a%20Global%20Treaty%20on%20Mercury.pdf

Daily web coverage of the Meeting:

http://www.iisd.ca/mercury/inc4/

Sull'argomento:

http://www.greenreport.it/_new/index.php?page=default&id=%2016660

Passato...prossimo:
http://www.fabiomanzione.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=635:mercurio-tossico-per-lambiente-e-la-salute&catid=33:ambiente&Itemid=58