Category: Soil Contamination

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Advancing gender and informal sector integration in waste management

2025

UNEP International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC)and the IGES Centre Collaborating with UNEP on Environmental Technologies (IGES-CCET) co-organised a session on gender and informal sector integration in waste management at SEA…

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Toxicological Profile for Mercury

2024

Toxicological Profile Information The ATSDR toxicological profile succinctly characterizes the toxicology and adverse health effects information for the toxic substance described therein. Each peer-reviewed profile identifies and reviews the key…

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Tackling Toxics

2022

Man-made toxic chemicals are all around us in products and waste. But some people get exposed to them more often than others, and not everybody is impacted by toxic chemicals…

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Training

Mercury and Gender

2022

This course focuses on the health effects of mercury exposure on women and children, the description of the main sources of exposure to this toxic metal, and its main risks.…

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A/HRC/51/35: Mercury, small-scale gold mining and human rights

2022

Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 45/17, the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes, Marcos Orellana,…

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45min for gender in sectors –Webinar 5: Gender & Chemicals in Agriculture

2021

With guest speaker: Elizabeth Mueni Kiio-Nzioka. The webinar was held on the 29th of June 2021.

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Journal Article

Endocrine Disruptors of Sex Hormone Activities

2021

Sex hormones, such as androgens, estrogens and progestins are naturally occurring compounds that tightly regulate endocrine systems in a variety of living organisms. Uncontrolled environmental exposure to these hormones or…

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Developmental neurotoxicants and the vulnerable male brain: a systematic review of suspected neurotoxicants that disproportionally affect males

2017

The prevalence of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDs), including autism spectrum disorder, attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder, tic disorder, obsessive‑compulsive disorder, and emotional disturbances, has increased notably in the past few decades. To date, debate…

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