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``Halt scrapping of toxic ships in developing nations''
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI:
A world coalition of environmental, human rights and labour groups has demanded an immediate halt to the import and export of ships to developing countries that have not been pre-cleaned to remove hazards.
The appeal comes in the wake of the findings of a special committee of the Supreme Court.
It revealed alarming proportions of asbestosis and death by accidents afflicting thousands of workers in the world's largest ship-breaking yard in India.
Demanding that SS Norway, now lying on the beach at Alang and reported to contain 1,200 tonnes of asbestos, be denied breaking at once, Gopal Krishna of the Ban Asbestos Network of India (BANI) said an authorisation to break a toxic ship amounted to the State authorising murder.
The NGO Platform on Ship-breaking demanded that India change its interpretation that the Basel Convention, which controls the trans-boundary movement of hazardous waste, does not apply to ships and materials in the structure of ships.
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