Baskut Tuncak

Former UN Special Rapporteur on #humanrights & toxics (2014-2020); Director of TURI @ReducingToxics

[Baskut Tuncak @baskut_t]

States must stop exporting unwanted toxic chemicals to poorer countries

Pleased to share a statement calling for an end to this abhorrent practice, delighted see endorsed by 35 other @UN_SPExperts of the UN Human Rights Council
https://t.co/aN3riotUsv #HRC44

[Enviro. Media Assoc. @green4EMA]

Carl Sagan testified before Congress in 1985 on climate change. Can you imagine if they had listened to him?

#ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis @climatehuman @gretathunberg

[UN News @UN_News_Centre]

BREAKING

The UN General Assembly adopts a resolution that declares access to a clean and healthy environment a universal #HumanRight

In favour: 161

Abstentions: 8

Against: 0

The decision is expected to be a catalyst for #ClimateAction

[Baskut Tuncak @baskut_t]

A very much welcome (and long overdue) addition!

[International Labour Organization @ilo]

The right to a safe & healthy working environment is now part of the @ilo’s Declaration of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.

👏 It's adopted by the #ILC2022 Plenary!

Learn more 👉 https://t.co/uajfw2Uqol

[Baskut Tuncak @baskut_t]

Wonderful! 👏

[Guy Ryder @GuyRyder]

Historic #ILC2022 decision to adopt a safe & healthy work environment as a fundamental principle and right at work is critically important.

3 million people die each year due to work related accidents & illness.

We now have an extraordinary platform to address this key issue.

[Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) @ReducingToxics]

We celebrate World Day for Safety and Health with a story about our work to protect the health of firefighters from #PFAS

#reducetoxics @PFASactiongroup #IWMD22 @ilo
https://t.co/SEWiATI3SF

[Baskut Tuncak @baskut_t]

Great work. Pathetic this has to be analyzed in the Lancet this day and age #DoubleStandards

[Victor A. Lopez-Carmen, MD, MPH @vlocarmen]

U.S. policies allow the export of highly toxic pesticides banned for domestic use. How does this practice impact Indigenous Peoples' health? We provide some answers & solutions in @LancetRH_Americ, focusing on the Yaqui Nation (my Tribe) in Mexico. 🌏⬇���

https://t.co/7rEIfN1a3i

[Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) @ReducingToxics]

Important work being done by the @PFASactiongroup and @SilentSpringIns to protect firefighters from PFAS in their gear, work funded by a TURI grant.
#reducetoxics #saferchemicals

[Baskut Tuncak @baskut_t]

The @ilo recently took a crucial step to recognizing safe and healthy work as a fundamental right in June this year. Long overdue, this will nevertheless be a major catalyst for worker protection. #SaferChemicals @ReducingToxics
https://t.co/8CBEQmAB7p

[Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) @HealthandEnv]

Join us on 10 December, 14.30 CET:

Our high level panel will highlight the voices of those rarely heard but most affected by health-harming pollution.

https://t.co/j6DP4uF4i3

Beating pollution today can prevent disease tomorrow, for everyone.

#ZeroPollution #EUGreenDeal

[Baskut Tuncak @baskut_t]

@Davzoul Thanks! 😎 Yes, soon

[Baskut Tuncak @baskut_t]

Excited to be joining this innovative team!

TURI Names New Director / Press Releases - Toxics Use Reduction Institute https://t.co/Mvk4PYUW1G

[Baskut Tuncak @baskut_t]

The case concerned pesticides but is obviously relevant to many other toxic contaminants impacting #indigenous communities @HilalElver @danikabillie

[Baskut Tuncak @baskut_t]

👏 New & very helpful decision by @UNHumanRights Committee: the failure to prevent toxic contamination of traditional lands violates indigenous rights incl. sense of “home”

https://t.co/ov4LIlIukO

[Baskut Tuncak @baskut_t]

“Serious environmental damages have severe impacts on indigenous people’s family life, tradition, identity and even lead to the disappearance of their community. It dramatically harms the existence of the culture of the group as a whole,” said Committee member @HeleneTigroudja

[Baskut Tuncak @baskut_t]

@SREnvironment Congratulations on this momentous occasion! 👏👏👏

[SREnvironment @SREnvironment]

A little bit of joyful emotion at the very staid Human Rights Council, as the UN for the first time recognizes the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment! (Mask was only off for a moment!)

[Baskut Tuncak @baskut_t]

And from where did #Algeria import its lead gasoline additive until now? The #UK 🇬🇧, which banned leaded gasoline over two decades ago. The chemical company Innospec continued to export this unquestionable poison from the UK to Algeria until at least 2020 https://t.co/0CTeMZ3iYh

[Sherpa @Asso_Sherpa]

Dreadful industrial disasters have occurred where social auditing firms had yet assessed sites. Social audit companies have #HumanRights responsibilities that they must fulfill.
See the new collaborative comparative law briefing’s analysis of their legal liability. @BHRRC

[Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala @NOIweala]

I welcome the ruling of the Swiss Press Council calling out the gender bias & sexism of Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung for its headline ‘Grandmother becomes boss of WTO’ upon my appointment. It is right to call out sexism, racism or both when you see it! https://t.co/BbUlCuSZKh

[Baskut Tuncak @baskut_t]

An excellent initiative - congratulations

[Green America @GreenAmerica]

Green America launches groundbreaking initiative with electronics leaders @Apple, @Dell, @HP to protect workers from #hazardouschemicals in the global #electronics #supplychain. #TowardZeroExposureProgram #CleanElectronicsProductionNetwork https://t.co/unh516cqc8