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EcoWaste Coalition Raises the Alarm over Toxic Plasticizers in Toys and Baby Care Products

22 November 2022, Quezon City.  Amid the observance of National Children’s Month and the Christmas shopping season, the toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has sounded the alarm over the presence of known endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) called phthalates (pronounced THAL-ates) not…

Philippines: 85 Imported Spray Paints Found to Contain Lead Above the Legal Limit

EcoWaste Coalition, IPEN seeks stringent enforcement of lead paint law to safeguard human health 23 October 2022, Quezon City.  Paints containing lead above the legal limit continue to be exported from China and Thailand to the Philippines despite a national…

Prominent sexologist Rodrigo Jarpa proposes a new approach to sex education for girls and boys

How to educate sexually intelligent children brings together the author’s 15 years of work in talks on comprehensive sex education in schools around the country, where he has collected doubts, questions and fears of parents on this subject. The book…

Toxic fumes threaten our children. We have to take on the pollution lobby

By George Monbiot for The Guardian The growth in emissions is creating a ‘diesel generation’ of unhealthy youngsters. And some of the world’s most powerful industries are behind it. Imagine that you could buy, in thousands of shops across the…

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