EEB & HEAL urge governments to restrict substances in tattoo inks & permanent make-up ahead of REACH Committee Meeting
1 in 10 Europeans has a tattoo. On 23 June, EU governments will discuss a restriction on tattoo inks and permanent make-up. HEAL and the EEB wrote a letter to the REACH Committee, urging members to restrict these health-harming chemicals.
Over 40 million health professionals urge G20 leaders to ensure a Healthy Recovery
On May 26, 2020, over 350 organisations representing over 40 million health professionals and over 4,500 individual health professionals from 90 different countries, wrote to the G20 leaders calling for…
HEAL asking for environmental health protection and evidence-based disease prevention at the heart of EU’s COVID-19 recovery
Today the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) wrote to Presidents Michel and Von der Leyen to ask that environmental health protection and evidence based disease prevention are put at the…
Executive Vice-President Timmermans’ reply to HEAL’s letter on zero pollution and health protection
Executive Vice-President Timmermans' reply to HEAL's letter on zero pollution and health protection
Joint public appeal for investment in a healthy future, a green and just recovery
Time to invest in a healthy future - Time for a green recovery We call upon EU and national leaders to tackle the unprecedented crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic…
Joint letter: Greening state aid as part of the Commission’s Green Recovery Strategy
HEAL together with the other Green 10 organisations has sent a letter to Commission President Von der Leyen as well as on greening state aid as part of the European…
For a Europe that cares for all – during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
Solidarity must be the bedrock of Europe’s response to this crisis: to fighting the pandemic and protecting all people, to managing the social and economic consequences, and to defending democracy. Solidarity goes beyond borders and should not be limited to European Union countries.
CSOs open letter on the importance and urgency of publishing the Farm to Fork strategy by end April 2020
On 14 April, 39 civil society organisations have sent a joint letter to Executive Vice-President Timmermans, Commissioner Kyriakides, Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski and Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius, highlighting the importance and urgency of publishing the Farm to Fork strategy without delaying further by end April 2020.
Joint letter to EU institutions on COVID-19 response
HEAL is one of the signatories (together with WWF, BirdLife Europe, EEB, CEE Bankwatch, CAN Europe, Transport & Environment and NatureFriends International) of a joint letter to Commission President von…
Joint open letter: Principles for a #JustRecovery from COVID-19
HEAL is a signatory of a letter coordinated by 350, calling for a global and financial response to COVID-19 that ensures a just recovery, putting health, fairness, people and solidarity…