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  • Press Release: Breaking-ground south-south cooperation on environmentally sound management of hazardous materials and wastes is launched
  • Press Release: UN Agencies ‘Deliver as One’ To Realize a Green Economy
  • World Customs Organization press release of 8 July 2009: "Operation Demeter yields tons of illegal shipments of hazardous waste"
  • Press Release: Geneva, 16 February 2009. Basel Convention leads by example in the run towards climate neutrality
  • Media feature. Geneva, 4 November 2008. Proper ship breaking: a test for globalization and decent work (English, Spanish)
  • Bali/Indonesia, 27 June 2008 – The ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (COP9), hosted by the Government of Indonesia, today adopted the Bali Declaration on Waste Management for Human Health and Livelihood in Bali, Indonesia
  • Bali, 27 June 2008 – The Basel Convention launched the PACE initiative today, the Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment, to tackle the management of obsolete and used computers
  • Press Release: Geneva, Switzerland 22/05/08. Indonesia to host world conference on waste management under the auspices of the Basel Convention
  • Press Release: Geneva, Switzerland 06/02/08. The European Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL) and the Basel Convention Join Forces.
   
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