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SENEGAL: Oral Statement of NGOs at the thirteenth session of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Geneva (July, 2015)
Oct 25, 2022
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Madame Chair, We Ndéye Maimouna DIENE, Ndeye Astou Syllah and Amy SAKHO, from Senegal,we present this statement and priority issues discussed in the report prepared by FEMNET Shadow Sen
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Glyphosate confirmed as a probable human carcinogen by the World Health Organization
Oct 25, 2022
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Pesticide joins international ‘highly hazardous’ list slated for phaseout On July 29, 2015 a branch of the World Health Organization (WHO) released a monograph of the herbicide glyphosa
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Phasing out highly hazardous pesticides with agroecology: Pesticide Action Network releases book at ICCM4
Oct 25, 2022
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Agroecological practices can increase farm productivity and food security, improve rural livelihoods and adaption to climate change, and reduce the environmental impacts of agriculture.
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Film on PAN Africa's agro-ecological farm at Beer, les Ndiayes (Thiés, Senegal) ( October 2023 )
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- -COTE D'IVOIRE: Pesticides that kill their users. KORHOGO, northern Côte d'Ivoire (IPS) - Pesticides are designed to insects and parasitic plants that destroy crops. But in some regions of northern Côte d'Ivoire, these chemicals are also killing farmers. are also killing farmers
- Mali: Nanguila poisoned by pesticides. The village of Nanguila, south of Bamako, has been poisoned by obsolete pesticides.
- Senegal: Food poisoning caused by pesticides in Saint Louis. Food poisoning: 25 young people admitted to emergency in Saint-Louis, an yet another case of food poisoning raises the question of the need to set up a poisons centre to diagnose such cases in time and offer appropriate treatment. appropriate treatment.