WHO Must Play Larger Role In Protecting People From Pollution, U.N. Independent Expert Says

U.N. News Centre: Expert urges U.N. health agency to do more to protect people from toxic substances
“The U.N. independent expert on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes today urged the World Health Organization to ‘play a much larger, more active role’ in protecting people from the negative impacts of toxic pollution…” (5/20).

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