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In February, IPEN participated in the Central Asia and Eastern Europe Sub-Regional Workshop in Support of the Ratification and Early Implementation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury that took place in Minsk, Belarus. A presentation in Russian was made jointly by Eco-Accord (IPEN Regional Hub for Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia), Russia and Center for Environmental Solutions (CES), Belarus.

IPEN is pleased to collaborate with the Canadian Environmental Health Atlas (CEHA), to promote the video "Little Things Matter" in multiple languages across the globe. This 7 minute video provides insights to how extremely low levels of toxins can impact brain development, and illustrates how subtle shifts in the intellectual abilities of individual children have a big impact on the number of children in a population that are challenged or gifted.

The newsletter features updates from IPEN Participating Organizations on some of their work in the region, including from Nature University, BaliFokus, Medicuss Foundation, Consumers Association of Penang, Ecological Alert and Recovery Thailand, and the Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture. 

A new publication, "Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals: State of the Problem and Steps Forward," prepared by Chapaevsk Medical Association (Russia), Eco-Accord (Russia) and IPEN, provides generalized information on impacts of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on human health, sources of EDCs releases, and their human exposure routes.