28 Mar 2024 --- The Minamata Convention on Mercury highlights the harmful effects of mercury in cosmetics so the Conference of the Parties to the convention amended the text to explicitly ban the manufacture, import and export of mercury-added cosmetics. “This new international requirement on cosmetics is an example of how we can proactively be anti-racists and contribute to addressing structural racism that is still prevailing in our societies,” says Monika Stankiewicz, Minamata Convention executive secretary and alternate anti-racism advocate for the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
