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Child Pesticide Poisoning: Information for Advocacy and Action
Published in May 2004 by the Chemicals Programme of UNEP (UNEP Chemicals) with the assistance of UNEP’s Information Unit for Conventions.
The main text was prepared for FAO, UNEP, and WHO by Dr. Lynn Goldmann, Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, USA. These organizations wish to acknowledge the contributions to the report from Mr. Bill Murray, FAO, Dr. Bo Wahlström, UNEP and Dr. Jenny Pronczuk, WHO.

MANAGEMENT OF TOXIC CHEMICALS AND HAZARDOUS AND RADIOACTIVE WASTES - Report of the Secretary-General
E/CN.17/2001/PC/19. prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme as task manager for chapters 19 and 20 of Agenda 21 and the International Atomic Energy Agency as task manager for chapter 22, with contributions from other United Nations agencies and international organizations. March 2001.
Available through the Johannesburg Summit prepcom1 webpage: http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/html/documents/ prepcom1.html

GLOBAL MERCURY ASSESSMENT REPORT
UNEP chemicals, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2002.
This publication is produced within the framework of the
Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC).

CHEMICAL POLLUTION: A Global Overview - 1992
Earthwatch/UNEP, prepared by IRPTC and GEMS/MARC
UNEP, Geneva, 1992 - 106 p.

THE ROTTERDAM CONVENTION - 1998
The Convention establishes a first line of defense by giving importing countries the tools and information they need to identify potential hazards and exclude chemicals they cannot manage safely.

Causes for concern: Chemicals and Wildlife
WWF, January 2004.