{"id":244277,"date":"2022-11-29T15:38:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T13:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/ghana-united-nations-un-expert-on-toxics-and-human-rights-to-conduct-factfinding-visit?lang=en"},"modified":"2022-11-29T15:38:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T13:38:49","slug":"ghana-united-nations-un-expert-on-toxics-and-human-rights-to-conduct-fact-finding-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/ghana-united-nations-un-expert-on-toxics-and-human-rights-to-conduct-fact-finding-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: United Nations (UN) expert on toxics and human rights to conduct fact-finding visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/6dd84b353a161fe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/6dd84b353a161fe\" alt=\"Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/6dd84b353a161fe\">Download logo<\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/africarc\/loganalytics?press_id=228244&amp;press_source=Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The UN Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights, Marcos Orellana, will visit Ghana from 30 November to 13 December 2022 to assess the country&rsquo;s human rights situation in relation to toxics and hazardous substances. The Special Rapporteur will visit at the invitation of the Government.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am particularly interested in identifying good practices and examining the use and management of chemicals and hazardous waste,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The prevention from toxic exposure through the sound management of hazardous substances has direct consequences on the enjoyment of human rights, impacting people&rsquo;s life, health and livelihood.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In Ghana, the Special Rapporteur will visit sites affected by toxic substances and hold meetings with government authorities, civil society and other stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>The UN expert will hold a news conference on 13 December 2022 at 15:00 in Ghana Journalists Association premises (Ghana International Press Centre, Ringway, Accra, Ghana) to share his preliminary findings and recommendations. Access will be strictly limited to journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The Special Rapporteur will present a comprehensive report with his findings and recommendations to the Human Rights Council in September 2023.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo The UN Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights, Marcos Orellana, will visit Ghana from 30 November to 13 December 2022 to assess the country&rsquo;s human rights situation in relation to toxics and hazardous substances. The Special Rapporteur will visit at the invitation of the Government. &ldquo;I am particularly interested in identifying good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":244278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-244277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ghana-united-nations-un-expert-on-toxics-and-human-rights-to-conduct-fact-finding-visit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}