This report exposes alarming levels of pesticide exposure faced daily by farming communities in Bangladesh, India, Laos and Vietnam. The report underscores that the right to health, safe food, and a safe environment is being systematically undermined in rural Asia. A total of 4,392 farmers were surveyed across the four countries covered in this report. […]
This Rural Youth Situationer is a product of a survey conducted by PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) between 2018 and 2019 among rural youth in Asia in cooperation with six partner organisations.
A study on women workers from selected plantations in the country revealed certain critical issues that need urgent attention. The study comprised a questionnaire survey, blood sampling for plasma pseudo cholinesterase enzyme and self-health monitoring cards ori which respondents recorded their daily symptoms of pesticide exposure. This ensured the participation of women in the monitoring […]
Victims Without Voice portrays women pesticide sprayers in the Malaysian plantations. They are the victims without a voice – victims of the society’s indifference, and focus of this book, pesticide poisonings. This book attempts to document the hazards of pesticide use in Malaysian plantation. The book examines briefly why women are particularly vulnerable to pesticide […]
