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Asbestos in Eastern Europe and Central Asia - A Public Health Time Bomb

Asbestos in Eastern Europe and Central Asia - A Public Health Time Bomb. Women in Europe for a Common Future - WECF. www.wecf.eu. All Asbestos Kills. WHO estimates that currently 125 million people are being occupationally exposed to asbestos, including women and children

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Asbestos in Eastern Europe and Central Asia - A Public Health Time Bomb

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  1. Asbestos in Eastern Europe and Central Asia - A Public Health Time Bomb Women in Europe for a Common Future - WECF www.wecf.eu

  2. All Asbestos Kills • WHO estimates that currently 125 million people are being occupationally exposed to asbestos, including women and children • ILO estimates asbestos causes 100.000 deaths globally every year through occupational exposure alone.

  3. EECCA Asbestos - just as bad • WECF discovered with shock that NGO partners wanted to use asbestos for ecological construction • NGOs and the public had been told, that “their” asbestos was safe • WECF bought samples in Kazakhstan and had them tested in a laboratory in Germany • The chrysotile asbestos from Ka zakhstan is no different

  4. Huge asbestos use in EECCA region We discovered: • almost all new buildings are build with asbestos • Asbestos Industry is powerful • Scientists and politicians are not aware

  5. Women and children: affected • Primary exposure is often regulated by the governments • But even secondary exposure is effecting millions of women and children in the EECCA region • Cases of mesothelomia cancer • Women washing clothes of asbestos workers • Women playing as child near asbestos factory

  6. Women and children at risk • mesothelioma development risks increase sharply • in the case of long-term exposure to low doses of asbestos comparatively • rare exposure to high doses • Therefore, women and children at risk from: • Houses, schools, playgrounds with asbestos • Asbestos dust in cities with asbestos factories

  7. WECF project on asbestos WECF started a project on inventory and awareness raising

  8. Previous Actions • Publishing an inventory report on asbestos in EECCA region in English and Russian • Publishing a fact sheet on asbestos in EECCA region in Russian, Kazakh, Ukrain and English • Presenting the finings at a side event at COP4 of Rotterdam Convention

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