Based on the materials of the seminar  "Women's Role in Addressing Problems of Persistent Organic Pollutants"
Moscow, May 15-16, 2001

© Eco-Accord Centre

 

Contents

INTRODUCTION

POPs AND THE NEW INSIGHT INTO ENVIRONMENT-RELATED DISEASES
M.V. Cherkasova, Co-ordinator of International Network "Children Health, Environment and Security"

DIOXINS AND POPULATION HEALTH
B.A. Revich, Doctor of Sciences (Medicine),
Professor, the Centre of Demography and Human Ecology of the Institute of Economic Forecasts,
Russian Academy of Sciences

ENVIRONMENT AND CANCER
Levshin B.F., Professor, Russian Cancer Research Centre.

WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, OFFSPRING QUALITY AND ROLES OF ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
E.I. Sharapova, Doctor of Sciences (Medicine), Professor, Moscow Medical Academy

POPs AND MEN: RISK ASSESSMENT FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF MEN IN THE REPUBLIC OF BASHKORTOSTAN
Sh.N. Galimov, Bashkir State Medical University

CHEMICAL MUTAGENS AND CHILD CANCER
E.V.Zhukovskaia, Cheliabinsk State Medical Academy

PESTICIDES: IS THE THREAT REAL OR VIRTUAL?
B.A.Kurliandsky, Professor, Director of the Russian Register of Potentially Hazardous Chemical and Biological Agents of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

PESTICIDE CONTAMINATION OF SOILS AND CROPS IN CHELIABINSK OBLAST
Basarygina E.M., Candidate of Sciences (Engineering),
Assistant Professor of Cheliabinsk State Agro-Engineering University

DIOXINS IN BREAST MILK
S.S.Yufit, Professor, Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences

CHEMICAL POLLUTION AND POPULATION HEALTH: MURMANSK OBLAST
M.Mikhailova, Director of the Humanitarian Institute of the North - Murmansk Oblast Charity NGO, Chief of "Severianka" Crisis Centre in Severomorsk

CHELIABINSK OBLAST - CONSEQUENCES OF CHEMICAL POLLUTION
M.Ya.Sobol, "Women's Network of the Urals"

THE PROBLEM OF HAZARDOUS TOXIC SUBSTANCES:
HOW SHOULD WE MAKE IT UNDERSTANDABLE FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC

O.Yu.Tsitser, the Executive Secretary of Section of Science and Engineering Board of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation

COMMUNICATING INFORMATION ON HEALTH RISKS
OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION: EXPERIENCE OF ROLL PROJECT

Bondarchuk E.A., the Institute of Sustainable Communities, Moscow

PROGRESS REPORT ON FEDERAL PROGRAM "PROTECTION OF THE POPULATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT FROM DIOXINS AND DIOXIN-LIKE POLLUTANTS FOR 1996-1997"
V.V.Kutsenko, the Chief of the Section of State Environmental Control and Environmental Security of the Ministry for Natural Resources of the Russian Federation

STOCKHOLM CONVENTION ON PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS (MAJOR PROVISIONS)
Elena Sobakina, UNEP Chemicals

COMMUNICATION OF THE HEAD OF THE DELEGATION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AT THE CONFERENCE OF AUTHORISED REPRESENTATIVES FOR APPROVAL AND SIGNATURE OF STOCKHOLM CONVENTION ON PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS

ANALYTICAL MEMO ON POTENTIAL ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF FULFILMENT OF COMMITMENTS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, ASSOCIATED WITH STOCKHOLM CONVENTION ON PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS
S.N.Kuraiev, the Centre for Development and Implementation of Technical Assistance Projects
V.G.Sokolovsky, the Ministry for Natural Resources of the Russian Federation

INTERNATIONAL POPs ELIMINATION NETWORK
Olga Speranskaya, Eco-Accord Centre

STOCKHOLM DECLARATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL POPs ELIMINATION NETWORK (MAJOR PROVISIONS)

APPEAL OF PARTICIPANTS OF THE SEMINAR "PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS AND HUMAN HEALTH" MOSCOW, MAY 15-16, 2001, TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

OUTCOMES OF THE SEMINAR “PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS AND HUMAN HEALTH" Moscow, 15-16 May, 2001