This campaign is currently suspended due to lack of funding. To help us restart work on the issue, please donate now. To view our previous work on health see the press releases below or click on the links on the navigation bar above. We may still be able to answer media enquiries about health. Please call ++ 44 (0)20 7481 9004.

4/2/08 C's the Day to Stop Cancer. Free event organised by Green Women in association with Women's Environmental Network (WEN) and Breast Cancer UK.

28/3/07 A feminist consciousness is more influential on a person's environmental awareness than whether they are male or female, a new report reveals.

19/10/06 Clean out your bathroom cupboard for Oct - Women are urged to take action to detox their lives for Breast Cancer Awareness month. More..

3/10/05 Campaign launched to expose link between chemicals and breast cancer

28/9/05 Women expose the silence that kills. Government and the 'cancer establishment' are complicit in soaring rates of Breast Cancer says a groundbreaking document released today by The UK Working Group on the Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer.

27/5/05 All phthalates should be banned from cosmetics and toiletries, in light of research that confirms the threat they pose to human fertility and reproductive development.

5/11/04 Scotland’s first toxic tour reveals life ‘within the glow’

13/1/04 WEN response to Concentrations of Parabens in Human Breast Tumours.

11/12/03 Getting lippy about lippy.

13/10/03 Protect health before industry profit, women tell European Leaders.

30/6/03 WECF media release: Children have the right to be born chemical free.

26/6/03 Royal Commission recognises chemicals in products pose risks to health.

19/6/03 WECF media release: Women demand end to pollution of humans.

2/6/03 'Toxic tour' shows environmental justice in action.

22/4/03 Get on the bus. A guided bus tour of environmental hazards in north Wales.

12/3/03 Virtual exhibition maps women’s environment and health concerns view exhibition

14/11/02 New survey reveals: Fertility-threatening chemicals in cosmetics.

21/10/02 Rename awareness month 'breast cancer prevention month'. Toxic Tour calls for action.

19/9/02 Tools for Change - It's only right… environmental justice workshops, Edinburgh.

30/8/02 Doves of hope flew over Earth Summit.

27/8/02 Announcing speech - Prevent environmental effects on women's health.

21/8/02 Pocket-sized visions for earth summit.

9/7/02 Ending the cosmetics cover-up.

11/7/02 Response to Not too Pretty: Phthalates, Beauty Products & the FDA.

8/6/02 Governments & health bodies should tackle environmental factors, says world breast cancer conference (pdf). PR from conference organisers (pdf) www.worldbreastcancerconf.ca
Click here for the Victoria Declaration, from the conference (Word doc).

15/3/04 Acclaimed American environmentalist and poet, Sandra Steingraber will talk about her new book, 'Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood'. Read a review (27k Word doc)

17/3/02 Statement from the European Women's Conference for a Sustainable Future, Celakovice, Czech Republic (Word doc).

11/03/02 Julia Sawalha invites women to share visions for a healthier planet.

8/03/02 Julia Sawalha helps launch WEN's Women Taking Action for a Healthier Planet project.

15/1/02 Breasts and pregnant bellies highlight the harm environmental pollution is doing.

5/6/01 Women Taking Action for a Healthier Planet. WEN has secured a half million pound lottery grant to develop a self-sustaining network of community action for a healthier environment.

1/6/01 Poisons Underfoot. New report commissioned by the Healthy Flooring Network (HFN).

1/3/01 Lindane - Banned in Europe but still in chocolate.