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Kathleen Ruff honoured for her anti-asbestos advocacy
June 6, 2016
Human rights champion, long time anti-asbestos activist and Rideau Institute Board member Kathleen Ruff is to receive the Medal of the Quebec National Assembly for her: …decade of work to stop Canada’s asbestos trade, work that some argue will save tens of thousands of people from contracting deadly asbestos-related diseases in Canada and abroad. Michelle Lalonde, in a […]
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Head of new UN body on asbestos hot seat!
December 3, 2015
We are re-posting this important blog by Kathleen Ruff, Senior Human Rights Advisor and Board Member of the Rideau Institute. (See: Head of UN sponsored science initiative asked to uphold scientific evidence, RightonCanada,ca, 1 Dec. 2015). Scientists and civil society organisations from around the world are asking Prof. Paul Shrivastava, a professor at Concordia […]
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