Global Petitions

If you have a global ban asbestos or mesothelioma research petition to add to the ADAO Global Petition page, please email info@AsbestosDiseaseAwareness.org. Together, change is possible. ~ Linda

Open Petitions

1)  PETITION: North American Petition to Eliminate Asbestos-Related Diseases
TO: Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama
ACTION: Urge Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama to endorse a  North American plan of action to eliminate and prevent asbestos-related diseases.
CREATED BY: The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) and the Canadian Voices of Asbestos Victims
GOAL: 2,000 signatures

2)  PETITION: Ban Asbestos in Brazil / Campanha de Banimento do Amianto se você Concorda Divulgue!
TO: The Brazil Supreme Court President and all his Ministers, President of the Republic, Ministers of State, Federal Deputies,  Senators
CREATED BY:  The Associação Brasileira dos Expostos ao Amianto (ABREA)

3)  PETITION: Asbestos Worldwide Condemnation of Canadian Reopening of Mining and Export of Asbestos
TO: The Australian and Canadian Governments
ACTION: Demand that the Canadian Government rescind their recent loan guarantee of $CAN58 million which would have enabled the Jeffrey Mine to continue production and export of deadly asbestos.
CREATED BY: Louise Williams
GOAL: 400 signatures

4)  PETITION: Ban Asbestos use in Pakistan
TO: Honorable Supreme Court of Pakistan, Honorable Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chowdhry
CREATED BY: Louise Williams
GOAL: 1000 signatures

5)  PETITION: Lobbing for Life
ACTION: Producing a petition book for the UK Government and Linda Reinstein, CEO of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO)
CREATED BY: United Kingdom’s National Asbestos Helpline (NAH)
GOAL: 1,000 signatures

6) PETITION: Stop Stowey Quarry 2012
ACTION: Calls on BANES to refuse planning permission to use Stowey Quarry to dump any type of hazardous waste.
CREATED BY: Sarah Streatfeild-James
DEADLINE: DEADLINE: STOWEY QUARRY DECISION DAY AUGUST 29TH

Closed Petitions

PETITION: Make Stephan Schmidheiny “Persona Non Grata” at Rio+20
TO: Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon of the United Nations
ACTION: Declare Mr. Stephan Schmidheiny “persona non grata” at the Rio+20 United Nations Conference
CREATED BY: The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) and the Associação Brasileira dos Expostos ao Amianto (ABREA)