Protect Our Children

Protect Our Children From Toxic Pesticides

Children today are sicker than they were a generation ago. Pesticides in food and
agriculture are responsible for the rise in a wide range of childhood diseases.

Children’s Rights to a Pesticides-Free World

PAN Asia Pacific, in collaboration with its networks and partners, will commemorate June 5th World Environment Day as part of the annual campaign to Protect Our Children from Toxic Pesticides.

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Children are more vulnerable to pesticides

Compared to adults, children breathe more air, eat more food and drink more water per unit of body weight, which leads to greater exposure in a pesticide-contaminated environment. Early life exposure can damage their still-developing brain and nervous system, disrupting mental and physiological growth.

Acute Poisoning

Birth Defects

Cancer

Asthma, Allergies and Immune System Problems

Obesity, Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders

Neuro Developmental and Behavioral Disorders

Protect Our Children Watch

The Protect Our Children (POC) Watch is an initiative by PANAP to monitor pesticide poisoning cases among children across the world. View details here.

Number of children poisoned
by pesticides

2013 to 2019

TOTAL CHILDREN AFFECTED

VIA TOXIC FUMES / DRIFT

VIA FOOD / ACCIDENTAL INGESTION

VIA DERMAL CONTACT

UNKNOWN ROUTE OF EXPOSURE

TOTAL DEATHS

Pesticide-Free Buffer Zones

Schools are meant to be safe sanctuaries for children. But children in schools are being exposed to pesticides via aerial spraying and spray drift. PANAP is pushing for governments to set up pesticide-free buffer zones around schools.

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