Chemicals Program Resources

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

• AGENDA for Environment and Responsible Development, Tanzania
• ARNIKA, Czech Republic
  
• Commonweal, USA
• Eco-Accord, Russia
  
• EDC Free
• National Toxics Network, Australia
• Oceana, USA
• Pesticide Action Network, Asia-Pacific
• Pesticide Action Network, Africa
• Pesticide Action Network, Latin America
• Pesticide Action Network, North America
• Physicians for Social Responsibility
• World Wildlife Fund, USA

NGO Networks

• Basel Action Network (BAN)
• Global Anti-Incineration Alliance (GAIA)
• Health Care Without Harm (HCWH)
• International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN)
• Safer Chemicals, Health Families

Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs)

• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes, Secretariat
• Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS)
• Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC)
  
• Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent of Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, Secretariat
• Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management
• UNEP Chemicals

Relevant Texts

• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes
  (http://www.basel.int/text/documents.html)
• Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
  (http://www.epa.gov/region5/defs/html/fifra.htm)
• IPEN Stockholm Declaration
  (http://ipen.ecn.cz/index.php?z=&1=en&k=documents&r=viewtxt&id=
  20&id_rubriky=11)
• IPEN SAICM Bangkok Statement
  (http://ipen.ecn.cz/index.php?z=&l=en&k=documents&r=viewtxt&id
  =75&id_rubriky=11)
• Protocol to the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants
  (http://www.unece.org/env/lrtap/full%20text/1998.POPs.e.pdf)
• Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent of Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade
  (http://www.pic.int/en/ViewPage.asp?id=104)
• Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (http://www.pops.int/documents/convtext/convtext_en.pdf )
• Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
  (http://www.epa.gov/region5/defs/html/tsca.htm)