Mercury Treaty Will Help Protect Right to Health - But Governments Fail to Plan Phase-Out in Small-Scale Gold Mining

 The international mercury treaty just agreed sends an important signal that governments must do more to address the threat of mercury to the right to health...Juliane Kippenberg, senior children’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch [said,] “Although this treaty is a historic development, governments could and should have done more to make health strategies mandatory

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