Canada’s CBC ran a special entilted “Canada’s Ugly Secret” on June 10 about an industrial area in India known as “The Golden Corridor,” where chrysotile asbestos, exported from Canada’s Black Mine, in Quebec, is being processed in factories.
Studies indicate that chrysotile asbestos poses the most hazard in industrial settings, where large quantities of it can be breathed, and for this reason asbestos products are no longer manufactured in Canada.
According to the CBC story though, Canada is the last country in the developed world to still sell it, and is the second largest exporter in the world. And in the slums around the Golden Corridor, people are dying of asbestosis and other asbestos-related diseases. CBC’s cameras captured workers in the factories handling loose asbestos in dust-filled rooms, with no respirators or other protective equipment.
The asbestos is being sold by a Canadian company named Lab Chrysotile Inc., and, according to the report, the Canadian government has been heavily lobbied by groups such as the Chrysotile Insitute to keep asbestos export legal. –http://www.asbestoswatch.net
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“Corruption drains the nation
and victimizes workers who build the nation.
Accountability now!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO Constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar
to carry out the recommendations of the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry
against serious violations of protocols of
Forced Labour and Freedom of Association.
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May 1 – Labor Day
May 2 – World Freedom Day
May 12 – World Communication Day
May 15 – International Day of Families
May 16 – International Day of Living
Together in Peace
May 21 – World Day for Cultural Diversity
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The Month of the Ocean
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Volunteerism Month
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Week 2: Safe Motherhood Week
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