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Villages of the damned in toxic land |
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
By IBNlive.com
Sunday June 17, 01:39 AM
Singbhum, Jharkhand: The Roro hills, 20 kms from Chaibasa in Singbhum district, are a dump of toxic waste.The waste is the leftover of 70 years of asbestos mining, first by local players then by big ones, like the Tatas and the Birlas. The
toxic waste lies on the hills and flows into 14 villages.
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OHS Rights: Issue No 15, April 2007 |
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
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Occupational cancer in Asia
Worldwide epidemic of occupational cancer is killing one person every minute, but this tragedy is being ignored by both official regulators and employers. In many Asian countries even Trade Unions have been ignoring these deaths. Workers, in many cases either do not know the hazards of the materials they are exposed to and those who now are afraid of losing jobs. Large numbers of workers are outside coverage of social security schemes, labor laws are seldom implemented and now in the name of liberalization the Courts,too are taking U turn. In such situation no worker can think of taking risk.
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Preventing occupational cancer |
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Monday, 26 March 2007 |
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Rory O neil
Below,
information on the new global trade union ‘Occupational cancer/zero
cancer'
campaign. Related news releases are
at the bottom of this note.
A new guide, ‘Occupational Cancer/Zero
Cancer: A union guide to prevention', published to mark the launch of the
campaign, is backed by all 10
global union federations and the
global union confederation ITUC. It is being distributed worldwide.
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