Amira Adawe (Executive Director, Beautywell) highlighted: "We have to end colourism. We have to redefine beauty standards and welcome everybody, embrace everybody's skin colour".
Catherine Tetteh (Chief Exec Officer, Melanin Foundation) said: "For our physical and mental health, mercury elimination can enable us to rise to the challenge of being proud of our skin colour".
Watch a short conversation on multilateralism between Executive Secretary Monika Stankiewicz and David Cooper (Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity) during UNEA-6.
Youth Dialogue on mercury, entitled "Mercury 2024: Knowledge is Power! Learn appropriate management of mercury", held online by high school students from Japan and the Philippines.
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Watch our COP-5 video playlist, including live streaming and daily videos.
Watch our COP-5 video playlist, including live streaming and daily videos.
Watch our COP-5 video playlist, including live streaming and daily videos.
Ten years ago, on October 10, 2013, the international community took a key step forward by signing the Minamata Convention on Mercury.
This tool enables parties to submit their second short national reports on the measures, effectiveness and challenges in implementing the Minamata Convention, submission due by 31 December 2023.
Watch the video to learn about the work and impact of the Specific International Programme (SIP), including examples of successful projects in Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Nigeria and Sri Lanka.