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