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ADAO Hybrid 17th Annual International Asbestos Awareness and Prevention Conference “Where Knowledge and Action Unite” September 16-17, 2022 2022 Conference Info | Registration | Agenda | Speakers | Friday “Asbestos: Art, Advocacy, and Action” Festival | Saturday Academic Conference | Saturday Honorees and Keynote Speaker | Sponsors Meet the Speakers Blog Series | Conference Video [...]
Posted on April 28, 2022 We are pleased to celebrate today’s release of anti-asbestos advocate, Eric Jonckheere’s new book entitled, “Asbestos: My War with the Devil’s Dust”. Eric is a passionate warrior for justice who has been at the forefront of the international movement to ban the production, trade, and use of asbestos for years. [...]
Posted on August 26, 2021 The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) welcomes the Brazilian court’s immediate suspension of extraction, exploration, processing, marketing, transport and export of asbestos produced. For years, Brazil has been the sole exporter of asbestos into the United States. In 2020, the United States spent $507,119 on over 250 tons of asbestos [...]
Meeting mondiale sull’amianto: l’esempio di Casale «in rete» con Usa, Canada, Brasile e India by Silvana Mossano Posted on July 30, 2021 On Wednesday, July 21, 2021, the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) hosted our 12th Zoom conversation, entitled “The Global Asbestos Fight for Human Rights and Justice.” We are grateful to all our panelists, [...]
Posted on June 29, 2021 The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) is excited to announce our 11th virtual zoom event: “ The Global Asbestos Fight for Human Rights and Justice.” The event will feature Barry Castleman, ScD; Ashok Ghosh PhD; Fernanda Giannasi, Gopal Krishna, PhD; Silvana Mossano, and Linda Reinstein. The event will be held [...]
On behalf of ADAO, we stand in solidarity with the Association of Asbestos Victims Families (AFeVA), the unions, victims organizations, and the Casale Monferrato community as they continue their fight for justice in the criminal trial of asbestos billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny. He is charged with voluntary manslaughter with intent of causing the deaths of 392 [...]
Posted on January 31, 2020 There is a court case like none the United States has ever seen taking place in Italy. Billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny is facing trial for the voluntary murder of 392 people who died from asbestos-related diseases in the town of Casale Monferrato. Schmidheiny, the former owner of the Swiss Eternit asbestos [...]
2019 Year-In-Review 2018 Year-In-Review 2017 Year-In-Review 2016 Year-In-Review 2015 Year-In-Review 2014 Year-In-Review 2013 Year-In-Review 2012 Year-In-Review 2011 Year-In-Review 2010 Year-In-Review Posted on December 6, 2019 The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), the largest non-profit in the U.S. dedicated to providing asbestos victims and concerned citizens with a united voice, is pleased to share a Year-End Summary [...]
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 [...]
2019 Year-In-Review 2018 Year-In-Review 2017 Year-In-Review 2016 Year-In-Review 2015 Year-In-Review 2014 Year-In-Review 2013 Year-In-Review 2012 Year-In-Review 2011 Year-In-Review 2010 Year-In-Review Previous Year-In-Review listed below. Posted on October 31, 2018 The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), the largest non-profit in the U.S. dedicated to providing asbestos victims and concerned citizens with a united voice, is pleased to [...]