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Mercury in health care devices to be banned in Philippines - 17 June 2008

Dead workers, stinking pollution and forced evictions: New report highlights ArcelorMittal’s global trail of destruction - 13 May 2008
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Ban the Burn! Government Ignoring Advice - 02 March 2008

groundWork asks for public protection against the DEAT - 27 Feb 2008

Letter to the Editor - Community and NGOs tired of Environmental Department: Fossil fuels cost nation R4bn a year in healthcare! - February 2008

Solidarity for Environmental Justice in South Africa - Report by Victor Munnik - Nov 2007

Medical Waste Disposal Companies Put our Lives in Danger
Sunday Times, 2 December 2007. Letter to Minister Van Schalkwyk
- 11 December 2007

Resisting Pollution: Sharing Experiences of South Durban! SDCEA and groundWork host a three day technical exchange programme - 28 November 2007

 

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The June 2008 newsletter (pdf)
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groundWork report 2007:
Peak Poison - The elite Energy crisis and environmental justice (pdf)
groundWork/NIZA Briefing Papers:
  1. The Impact of Extractive Industries on Rights of Local Communities
  2. Modern Day Slaves: Living conditions of the Diamond Diggers of Mbuji Mayi
  3. The Impact of Cement Kilns on the Environment
  4. An Analysis of the Socio-Economic Intervention System of Forestry Companies in the DRC
  5. Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in Small-scale Mining on the Copperbelt
  6. Clean Fuel: Is it a Reality or a Myth?

Please contact groundWork for French versions of above papers

“HALTING THE CHILD BRAIN DRAIN” - Stay Healthy, Stop Mercury!
www.env-health.org/stopmercury/

The groundwork Report 2006 Poisoned Spaces: Manufacturing wealth, producing poverty
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CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY

Corpse awards 2006 - Southern Africa’s leading civil society awards for corporate bad practice and abuse - 10 November 2006

Finalists in the Corpse Awards 2005
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AIR QUALITY

Civil Society response on the NEM: Air Quality Act National Framework 09 August 2007-
Covering letter
groundWork Submission

PMB agrees on anti-pollution strategy. Witness, 21 September 2006.
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A Civil Society Response to the Government Gazette on Air Quality Standards.8 September 2006
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WASTE PROJECTS
The Isipingo Declaration on eliminating the harmful impacts of Health Care Waste and Incinerators in Southern Africa
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