Guest blog: Fresh from his attendance at this year’s Conference of Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions in Geneva, CEJAD’s Fredrick Otieno expresses his disappointment over the failure to list hazardous pesticides under Annex III of the Rotterdam Convention.
One year on from their success at the Future Policy Awards, Mark Davis explains why Sri Lanka’s pesticide suicide prevention policies remain an exceptional story of success and shouldn’t be confused with their sudden and poorly executed move to organic agriculture.
What is the extent of states’ obligation to protect its residents from self-inflicted harm and suicide?
In the question of suicide prevention, the burden is usually placed on health care and mental health professionals, police, and school councilors to ensure mental health support and protection of life of suicidal individuals [1, 2]. Domestic laws of the right to life concentrate on the general criminal law prohibition of the “arbitrary” deprivation of human life.
Article originally published in the Nepali Times.
A 53-year-old laboratory assistant at a reputed hospital in Kathmandu recently bought aluminium phosphide tablets and ingested three of them. He started vomiting immediately, and had to be rushed into emergency.