Governments urged to ratify mercury convention

The new United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and toxic waste, Baskut Tuncak, has urged governments around the world to quicken the ratification process of the Minamata Convention on Mercury.
The convention is a global treaty to protect human health and the environment from the adverse effects of the toxic heavy metal. It must be ratified by 50 countries to be legally binding.
While 128 countries had signed the agreement one year after it was opened for signature and ratification, only seven had ratified it, jeopardising its chances of being in force by the agreed target of 2020.
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