MANILA, Philippines – Environment and health activists called on authorities to conduct an open and exhaustive investigation into “toxic incidents” in Silang, Cavite, where almost 60 people, including children, fell ill.
The EcoWaste Coalition and Cavite Green Coalition jointly urged the newly created Task Force Cleanway to get to the bottom of the toxic pollution that knocked down residents of Barangay Maguyam in Silang town from Oct. 14 to 24.
The groups also pressed the local government to enforce the cease-and-desist order that Silang Mayor Clarito Poblete issued against Cleanway Technology Corp. (CTC), a hazardous and healthcare waste treatment facility, last Oct. 15.
Poblete’s office reportedly received “numerous complaints” about the operation of the CTC plant at Meridian Industrial Park II. – Katherine Adraneda, Philippine Star
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
“Safety and health at work every day!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
March – Women’s Role in History Month
April – Month of Planet Earth
Weekly Observances:
Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
Last Week of April – World Immunization Week
Daily Observances:
Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
