The death has been announced of Hyung-Sik Choi who lost his battle against the asbestos cancer mesothelioma in Korea earlier this week (March 3, 2014). Since his disease was diagnosed in 2008, Mr. Choi had played an active role in the campaign for asbestos justice and...

by Bob Ruers – Member of the Dutch Senate and asbestos victims' lawyer Klaas Jasperse, a former employee who is suffering from asbestos-related cancer (mesothelioma), has brought a claim against the Dutch State for damages. Mr Jasperse worked in an aluminium factory...

Basudev Bhagat (55) is languishing in a private nursing home — the Singh Nursing Home — in Ghatsila in East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. He is yet another silicosis patient staring at death. Silicosis is a condition caused by inhaling too much silica over a long...

Findings from the second phase of a pioneering mobile phone call-in project in Cambodia suggest garment and footwear workers are improving their knowledge about labour rights, occupational safety and health, and personal health. The Kamako Chhnoeum ("Outstanding...

By Our Representative Poonabhai Ramabhai Parmar, 59, has become the fourth victim of the deadly silicosis disease -- which is rampant in and around Khambhat town of Central Gujarat -- this year. Parmar breathed his last on February 25 night. Large number of locals...