Protect Our Children Campaign

In 2014, PANAP launched the Protect Our Children from Toxic Pesticides (POC) Campaign in 11 countries to address the special vulnerability of children to pesticide impacts. Publications and information materials, including a children’s storybook, were widely distributed. Campaign success in subsequent years include the adoption of pesticide-free buffer zones around schools in Cambodia and Vietnam and the inclusion of PANAP recommendations on reports by the UN Special Rapporteurs on Chemicals and Waste and the Right to Food. The POC Watch continues to monitor pesticide poisoning of children across the globe.