Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Rotterdam Conference - mass murder in the making - advice from Australia Asia Worker Links - www.@aawl.org.au
http://aawl.org.au/content/rotterdam-conference-mass-murder-making
Last week the sixth meeting of the Rotterdam Convention, an international body that
regulates hazardous substances, concluded without recommending that chrysotile
asbestos be listed as a hazardous substance. This failure has outraged survivors of
asbestos disease, community
groups and unions
around the world as it flies in the face of all scientific evidence. Once
again, a handful of countries have allowed the asbestos industry to not only
get away with mass murder, but to make millions of dollars in profit as well.