The World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry announces the creation of Island States Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry, to be based in Port Louis, Mauritius. This...
Dental and environmental practitioners have underlined the need for the Lagos State Government to make a pronouncement in line with the global effort to...
Amalgam is a dental filling material that is 50% mercury, a neurotoxin and pollutant. This week, BAN Toxics, a Philippines-based not-for-profit, marks an historic milestone in...
Turkey and Algeria are the most recent countries to become parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury.
On October 4, 2022, Türkiye deposited its instrument...
Pacific Coordinator, World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry, Fiji, Ms. Emele Duituturaga, and Project Coordinator and Private Sector Engagement Specialist, SIDS, Ms. Melanie Ashton, are...
Environmental health organisations from the Philippines are asking governments across the world to end a partial exemption on mercury use for eye area cosmetics...
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has marked five years since the Minamata Convention on Mercury entered into force.
UNEP, in a statement, said five...
The Children’s Amendment to the amalgam reduction requirement of the Minamata Convention on Mercury entered into force on Friday, June 24, 2022.
Henceforth, all the...
Save Andoni Forest Elephant and Ecosystem Initiative (SAFE-i), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), on Thursday, April 25, 2024, reiterated the need for government...
