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Asbestos in Eastern Europe and Central Asia A Public Health Time Bomb Women in Europe for a Common Future - WECF www.wecf.eu All Asbestos Kills • WHO estimates that currently 125 million people are being occupationally exposed to asbestos, including women and children • ILO estimates asbestos causes 100.000 deaths globally every year through occupational exposure alone. www.wecf.org EECCA Asbestos - just as bad • • • • WECF discovered with shock that NGO partners wanted to use asbestos for ecological construction NGOs and the public had been told, that “their” asbestos was safe WECF bought samples in Kazakhstan and had them tested in a laboratory in Germany The chrysotile asbestos from Ka zakhstan is no different www.wecf.org Huge asbestos use in EECCA region We discovered: • almost all new buildings are build with asbestos • Asbestos Industry is powerful • Scientists and politicians are not aware www.wecf.org Women and children: affected Primary exposure is often regulated by the governments But even secondary exposure is effecting millions of women and children in the EECCA region Cases of mesothelomia cancer • Women washing clothes of asbestos workers • Women playing as child near asbestos factory www.wecf.org Women and children at risk mesothelioma development risks increase sharply • in the case of long-term exposure to low doses of asbestos comparatively • rare exposure to high doses Therefore, women and children at risk from: • Houses, schools, playgrounds with asbestos • Asbestos dust in cities with asbestos factories www.wecf.org WECF project on asbestos WECF started a project on inventory and awareness raising www.wecf.org Previous Actions • • • www.wecf.org Publishing an inventory report on asbestos in EECCA region in English and Russian Publishing a fact sheet on asbestos in EECCA region in Russian, Kazakh, Ukrain and English Presenting the finings at a side event at COP4 of Rotterdam Convention