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PANUPS updates service, for complete information. September 28,
2006 Indian activists protest DDT factory: In the wake of the
WHO announcement promoting DDT for malaria control, residents
living near the Hindustan Insecticides Ltd. DDT manufacturing
plant in Kerala, India gathered to declare that their
communities and livelihoods have been destroyed by DDT and other
persistent organic pollutants (POPs). On September 17, 2006,
more than 500 people from Eloor and Edayar, India, presented
nine community demands to the Indian government and WHO after
suffering more than 50 years of pollution. The Eloor-Edayar
statement read, “There is a growing political understanding that
a paradigm where the present and future generations are denied
clean air and water cannot be seen as development.
Scientists…all over the world are working towards a dream of a
hazardous pesticides- and chemical-free world by 2020. This
vision statement is being put forward with a