The first draft of the Guidance on monitoring to support the Effectiveness Evaluation is now open for comments

The Secretariat attended the first meeting of the Global Chemicals Monitoring Programme covering mercury monitoring, held In Shanghai by the Basel and Stockholm Convention Regional Centre in China.

Learn about the Convention’s digital strategy, which enables more effective information exchange, transparency and collaboration in support of the implementation of the Minamata Convention.

On 2 July 2026, the Minamata Convention Secretariat delivered a session on mercury and its impact on health and Indigenous communities to the OHCHR Indigenous Fellows Programme in Geneva.