23 April 2025 New EU Toy Safety Regulation At Wen, we’re thrilled to see the EU stepping up to protect children from toxic chemicals in toys. The new Toy Safety Regulation is a crucial move toward healthier, safer childhoods, especially with its long-overdue action on endocrine disruptors, a ban on bisphenols and PFAS and…
Category Archives: Press release
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22nd October 2024 PRESS RELEASE Urgent call for a Menstrual Health, Dignity, and Sustainability Act backed by 35 experts and organisations With 42 per-cent of girls in the UK struggling to afford period products*, menstrual products generating 28,114 tonnes of waste per year**, and conventional period products containing toxic chemicals and metals***, it’s clear women,…
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Read Wen’s Statement against the far-right violence and terror marches in the UK
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8 July 2024 Wen response to lead and toxic metals found in tampons. In response to new research finding toxic metals including lead, arsenic, and cadmium in tampons purchased in the UK, Wen (the Women’s Environmental Network) is calling for a Menstrual Health, Dignity and Sustainability Act to address period equity, education, and product regulation. …
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PRESS RELEASE 26 JUNE 2024 Wen’s London Climate Sisters exhibition at the Barbican celebrates women’s voices in the climate conversation A group of women known as the London Climate Sisters are holding an exhibition showcase of art installations, crafts, poetry and films they have created about the climate emergency, at the Barbican on Monday…
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WEN CALLS FOR TOXIC-FREE CONTINENCE PRODUCTS AS IT LAUNCHES NEW GUIDE FOR WORLD CONTINENCE WEEK
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PRESS RELEASE 13 JUNE 2024 Wen calls for toxic-free continence products as it launches new guide for World Continence Week Wen (The Women’s Environmental Network) is calling for the effective regulation of toxic-free continence products this World Continence Week, 17-23 June 2024. With the launch of its new resource ‘Stress incontinence is no…
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Calling for a toxic free future for our children – Green Baby Day 12 June 2024 Wen, the Women’s Environmental Network, is calling for a sustainable and toxic free future for babies and children on Green Baby Day, 12 June 2024. The Green Baby survey from Wen shows parents are concerned about toxic chemicals in…
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Planet Vs Plastics – Celebrating Reusable Nappies this Earth Day Earth Day and Reusable Nappy Week fall on the 22nd of April and with this year’s themes of ‘Planet Vs Plastics’ and ‘One Change Big Difference’ the message is clear, making the swap to reusable nappies is good for the environment, early years education, health…
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Residents call for a community-led food revolution in Tower Hamlets as £168,000 released into experimental growing projects in 2024 The funding will see a new Food and Land Justice Resource Centre established at Kingsley Hall and a Sussex farm beginning to grow crops that meet the needs of Tower Hamlets’ global community. Local residents, the…