Category: Alzchem

“I was poisoned with Dormex while working”: Speech by Dina Ndleleni

My name is Dina Ndleleni.  I am 63 years old.  I am an activist from the Women on Farms Project and former farm worker who for 53 years lived and/or worked on commercial table grape farms in De Doorns in the Hexriver Valley in the Western Cape, South Africa.

In July 2022, while working on Mooigezicht Estates, I was poisoned with Dormex (which contains cyanamide). This has affected all aspects of my life.  My lungs were so damaged that I lost my job and income because I was unable to work.  I suffer from irreversible, chronic respiratory complaints which result in me being hospitalized a couple of times per year when I struggle to breathe and need artificial oxygen. Weiterlesen

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Export and commercialisation of pesticides that are harmful to health and banned in the EU: Our countermotion

Item 3 on the agenda: Approval of the actions of the Executive Board for the 2024 financial year

The Association of Ethical Shareholders Germany proposes that formal approval of the actions of the members of the Executive Board be denied.

Reason:

The Executive Board continues to fail to adequately fulfil its human rights and environmental due diligence obligations.

Export and commercialisation of pesticides that are harmful to health and banned in the EU

Alzchem is one of the companies that continues to export pesticides that are classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction and have therefore not been authorised in the EU for a long time. Weiterlesen

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