In February 2021, an asbestos workshop in Laos caught the attention of the local media as the Health Minister voiced support for the full phasing out of asbestos imports in Laos.

It was a busy month for the campaign in Vietnam with a capacity building training courses and workshops for doctors and policymakers.

In December 2017, 16 organisations from across India, made the momentous decision to campaign as a national asbestos ban network.

Rajendra is a victim of the global asbestos industry. He's taking the voice of victims of asbestos-related diseases to the Rotterdam Convention meeting.

Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA, trade unions and ban asbestos networks globally are organising together to make 2017 the year to finally shake up the global asbestos trade.

The Roman Empire used it for household goods, its name is derived from the Greek word for indestructible and evidence of it has even been found in ancient China. But despite the many volumes of scientific evidence proving its poisonous nature - and decades of campaigning by the Australian union movement - asbestos is now threatening to have a resurgence in Australia.