Sascha Gabizon calls for immediate and much more urgent protection from dangerous chemicals that contaminate our homes, our environment and our bodies, that affect women and their children. She spoke of the lack of human rights in many countries where widowed and divorced women and their children are forced from their homes, and have no land rights.
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