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Asbestos in Asia: Breaking Through the Silence in Lao PDR - 09 January 2012
Australians know that asbestos kills. We are historically one of the highest per capita miners, manufacturers and consumers of asbestos in the world. Almost all public buildings and around one third of all private houses were built with asbestos. And the toll was heavy - by 2020, Australia will have had 13,000 cases of mesothelioma and over 40,000 cases of asbestos related cancer. ...
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Canada: Stop Exporting Asbestos - 26 September 2011
The Canadian government is looking to reopen Jeffery Mine in Quebec. This will massively increase Canada's export of death - asbestos.Will you tell the Canadian High Commissioner what you think of their deadly trade?...
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Fighting Back: A reflection on our pilot asbestos project in Vietnam - 07 June 2011
Late last year, a curious thing happened in Vietnam. After decades of fighting and arguing that white asbestos was safe, the Vietnam Roof Sheet Manufacturers Association (VRSM) embraced the need to move on from asbestos....
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