IPEN’s mission is a healthy, toxics-free future for all. Since 1998, IPEN has worked for a world in which chemicals are no longer produced or used in ways that harm human health or the environment. IPEN’s work protects human health and the environment from the production, use, and disposal of toxic chemicals, especially in low- and middle-income countries.
To help drive implementation of the Global Framework on Chemicals (GFC), PEN, Pesticide Action Network International (PAN), Women Engage for a Common Future (WECF), Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), and International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) came together to develop a Common Statement to encourage other organizations globally to work together in promoting the aims of the GFC.
Read the Common Statement and background information, below.
IPEN has long advocated for global and national policies to prevent threats to health and the environment from PFAS "forever chemicals." See some of IPEN's global reports and policy briefs, below.
See IPEN members' activities in support of the annual International Lead Poisoning Prevention Weekk of Action. IPEN members have been active since the first Week of Action in 2013 and often conduct the majority of the global events to highlight the need for global and national bans on lead paint during the week.
The widely used current limit value for POPs in waste (Low POPs Content Levels) leaves vast amounts of industrial wastes containing persistent organic pollutats (POPs) like dioxins out of control. With this weak limit level, there is no requirement to dtreat these wastes as hazardous POPs waste - these toxic wastes can even be used in construction material. This is how dioxins in wastes can spread and contaminate the environment and the food chain and harm human health.
