CPSP in the News

Press and media coverage featuring Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention research and staff.

*Warning: articles may contain content about methods of suicide. If you have questions on self-harm or feel suicidal, use this link to find an international helpline – www.findahelpline.com.*

2025

22 March – “What is human cost of India’s pesticide consumption, and lack of regulations” – Ground Report

2024

9 December – “Nepal bans three more pesticides to tackle growing suicide cases” – The Kathmandu Post

8 December – “The Brazilian farmers poisoned by a Syngenta pesticide that is banned in Europe” – Public Eye

8 December – “‘If it’s dangerous for one population, it will be for the other’: the Brazilian farmers poisoned by a banned pesticide exported from Britain” – Unearthed

10 October – “Should it be easy to buy dangerous chemicals?” – News Decoder

23 September – “Nepal’s Strategic Shift: Saving Lives Through Pesticide Regulation” – Angels in Medicine

12 September – “How Nepal turned the tide on ‘pesticide poisoning’” – The Telegraph

6 June – “The silent crisis: confronting the deadly impact of pesticides” – Illuminem

2023

18 November 2023 – “Lethal pesticides” – DAWN

21 June 2023 – “Why doctors want this pesticide banned” – Scroll.in

19 April 2023 – “Criminalising suicide only makes it worse” – 360 info

2022

30 November 2022 – “More research on all poisonings needed to save lives: BSMMU VC” – Dhaka Times

30 November 2022 – “Seven and a half percent of patients were admitted to the hospital due to poisoning” – Dhaka Mail

30 November 2022 – “Research on all poisons including pesticides essential: BSMMU Vice-Chancellor” – Bangla Tribune

30 November 2022“Research on all poisons, including pesticides, is necessary to save life” – MediVoiceBD

20 October 2022 – “Leah Utyasheva and Michael Eddleston are saving lives from suicide in the Global South” – Vox

20 October 2022 – “Vox Announces Inaugural Future Perfect 50 List Honoring Visionary Change Agents” – Vox

2021

9 September 2021 – “Suicide still treated as a crime in at least 20 countries, report finds” – The Guardian

2 July 2021 – “The Case for Banning Highly Hazardous Pesticides” – Borgen Magazine

4 April 2021 – “The Growing Case For Banning Pesticides Linked To Suicides” – Forbes

24 March 2021 – “Revealed: Why UK kept exporting a deadly pesticide that kills thousands” – Channel 4 News

24 March 2021 – “‘A sip can kill’: did a chemical company misrepresent data to avoid making a safer product?” – The Guardian

24 March 2021 – “The Paraquat poisoning problem” – The Intercept

24 March 2021 – “The Paraquat Papers: How Syngenta’s bad science helped keep the world’s deadliest weedkiller on the market” – Unearthed

24 March 2021 – “Half a century of lies and secrets about paraquat, a lucrative pesticide and violent poison” – Le Monde

17 February 2021 – “A New Strategy to Reduce Suicide by Pesticide Poisoning” – Undark

2020

18 December 2020 – “Pesticide suicides reduce post 2011 ban on endosulfan” – The Times of India

12 January 2020 – “Suicide Watch” – Nepali Times

2019

30 September 2019 – “Preventing pesticide poisoning” – BBC World Service

24 September 2019 – “Saving lives from pesticide poisoning” – BBC World Service

9 September 2019 – “Pesticide poisoning and poverty: How Sri Lanka’s suicide epidemic was allayed with the help of British research” – Telegraph

22 August 2019 – “Three suicide prevention strategies show real promise. How can they reach more people?” – Science

2 March 2019 – “Workshop on pesticide mgmt held” – lokmat Times

2018

15 November 2018 – “How pesticide bans can prevent tens of thousands of suicides a year” – Vox

7 March 2018 – “The nonprofit that figured out how to massively cut suicide rates in Sri Lanka, and their plan to do the same around the world” – 80,000 hours