Human Rights Perspective on Pesticide Exposure and Poisoning in Children: A Case Study of India.

IF 2.5 3区医学 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Health and Human Rights Pub Date : 2021-12-01

Leah Utyasheva, Lovleen Bhullar

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Pesticide exposure and poisoning among children can lead to devastating long-lasting health effects that impact their human rights, with communities in low- and middle-income countries experiencing the negative impacts of pesticides more profoundly than those in high-income countries. While United Nations agencies recommend banning highly hazardous pesticides responsible for serious pesticide poisonings, childhood pesticide poisoning is rarely discussed, especially from a human rights perspective. In India, a country with a large population of children and widespread pesticide use, no law or policy addresses pesticide poisoning among children. This lack of prioritization leads to gaps in poisoning surveillance and lack of government action to prevent poisoning, causing violations of children's rights. The proposed pesticides ban can reduce pesticide poisoning among children in India, but to fully protect children's rights, the government needs to establish comprehensive pesticide poisoning surveillance and ensure the mainstreaming of pesticide poisoning prevention into law and policy based on a human rights framework.

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儿童接触农药和中毒的人权观点:以印度为例。

儿童接触农药和中毒可导致破坏性的长期健康影响，影响其人权，低收入和中等收入国家的社区比高收入国家的社区更深刻地遭受农药的负面影响。虽然联合国各机构建议禁止使用导致严重农药中毒的高度危险农药，但很少讨论儿童农药中毒问题，特别是从人权角度考虑。在印度这个儿童人口众多、农药使用广泛的国家，没有法律或政策解决儿童农药中毒问题。缺乏优先次序导致中毒监测方面存在空白，政府也缺乏预防中毒的行动，从而导致儿童权利受到侵犯。拟议的农药禁令可以减少印度儿童的农药中毒，但为了充分保护儿童的权利，政府需要建立全面的农药中毒监测，并确保在人权框架下将农药中毒预防纳入法律和政策的主流。

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期刊介绍： Health and Human Rights began publication in 1994 under the editorship of Jonathan Mann, who was succeeded in 1997 by Sofia Gruskin. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health, assumed the editorship in 2007. After more than a decade as a leading forum of debate on global health and rights concerns, Health and Human Rights made a significant new transition to an online, open access publication with Volume 10, Issue Number 1, in the summer of 2008. While continuing the journal’s print-only tradition of critical scholarship, Health and Human Rights, now available as both print and online text, provides an inclusive forum for action-oriented dialogue among human rights practitioners.