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Mercury Treaty

Mercury Treaty

Mercury Treaty Falls Short on Ending Threats from Toxic Waste and Mercury-Containing Cosmetics, Makes Progress on Dental Mercury and Inclusion of Indigenous Peoples

Friday, 03 November 2023

Geneva, Switzerland – IPEN advocates from around the world at the Fifth Conference of the Parties (COP5) of the Minamata Convention on Mercury note that the outcomes this week have been a mix of disappointing decisions with positive progress on some issues. Among the items where the COP5 fell short was in adopting a weak standard for mercury in waste and allowing blanket exemptions even for this weak standard that could result in undeclared shipments of toxic mercury-tainted waste being exported from wealthy regions to low- and middle-income countries.

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Minamata Convention Calls for Inclusion of Indigenous Peoples in the Fight to End Mercury Pollution

Groups Say: To Protect Indigenous Rights, End the Mercury Trade, Ban Mercury in Mining
Thursday, 02 November 2023

Geneva, Switzerland-At the Minamata Convention negotiations Tuesday delegates approved a resolution calling for support to the participation of Indigenous Peoples in the fight to end mercury pollution.

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Mercury COP-5 Quick Views (text)

Tuesday, 17 October 2023 - 2:39pm

The fifth Conference of the Parties (COP-5) of the Minamata Convention on Mercury (Mercury Treaty) will take place in Geneva from 30 October to 3 November 2023, and several important decisions will be discussed. These decisions may include: 

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Quick Views - Mercury Treaty COP5

Monday, 16 October 2023 - 12:33pm

Download the full Quick Views below or find the text here.

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UN Human Rights Expert Calls for an End to the Trade in Mercury and its Use in Small-Scale Gold Mining

UN Special Rapporteur urges closing a loophole in Minamata Convention on Mercury to stop human rights abuses linked to mercury in gold mining
Tuesday, 13 September 2022

Geneva, Switzerland - As many as 15 million men, women and children around the world suffer significant and potentially life-threatening human rights abuses from mercury used in small-scale gold mining, according to a groundbreaking report presented today by Marcos A. Orellana, the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights.

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What Happened at Mercury Treaty COP 4.2

Friday, 8 April 2022 - 10:58am

A brief summary of the happenings and outcomes of the Mercury Treaty COP 4.2 meeting in Bali, Indonesia, in Spring 2022, as well as notes about side meetings and future events.

The fourth Conference of the Parties of the Minamata Convention on Mercury was scheduled 21 – 25 March 2022 but actually finished at around 5am on the morning of 26 March with the final decision on Budget and Programme of Work.

Significant advances were made in decisions on dental amalgam and addition of several product groups to Annex A.

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Mercury Exposure of Women in Four Latin American Gold Mining Countries

Monday, 14 June 2021 - 2:47pm

This study of mercury levels in women from four Latin American communities is the latest compilation of data in IPEN’s global mercury biomonitoring program. Hair samples were taken from women living in or near the mining towns of Vila Nova, Brazil, El Callao, Venezuela, Íquira, Colombia, and two groups living in Bolvia's Beni river system. The results for the Bolivian women were especially concerning: they had the highest mercury levels in our study, yet have no engagement with mining or contact with mercury and are reliant on a subsistence fish diet.

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Mercury Country Situation Report - Indonesia

Thursday, 23 July 2020 - 6:20pm
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