Posted on June 11, 2019 The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) sends our sincerest congratulations to the dedicated Colombian lawmakers, trade unions, and activists for passing the "Ana Cecilia Niño Bill" to ban the production, industrial use, and trade of asbestos. It is impossible to mention all those who contributed to this great national achievement, [...]
Thursday, May 23, 2019 Dr. Peter Salovey President of Yale University Dear Dr. Salovey, We are writing to once again urge Yale to rescind its 1996 honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree awarded to Stephan Schmidheiny, owner of the global Eternit enterprise, in 1996. Yale was clearly conned by this asbestos billionaire in his rebranding [...]
Posted on April 30, 2019 Only a week after the ADAO community gathered in Washington, D.C to protect victims and stand up for asbestos safety, chemical industry executives in Russia and Kazakhstan were holding a different kind of gathering. According to “Chrysotile,” an international coalition of asbestos industry giants in Eastern Europe, workers assembled to [...]
Post on April 26, 2019 From April 29 to May 10, representatives of countries from around the world will meet for the ninth Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention (COP9). The gathering, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, is organized by the United Nations Environment Programme in pursuit of several chemical-safety related goals. [...]
Posted on April 23, 2019 "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living! "Mother Jones ADAO joins individuals, trade unions, and organizations around the world for International Workers Memorial Day on April 28, 2019 for those who have been injured or killed on the job For decades, unions and NGOs like The Hazard Campaign and [...]