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30 April 2020

IAEA Joins the UNEP Global Partnership to Reduce Mercury Emissions

Every year the United Nations commemorates World Oceans Day to mark the importance of the oceans in our everyday lives. The focus of this year's World Oceans Day is 'Gender and the Ocean.' At the IAEA Environment Laboratories, women and men work side by side to help Member States use nuclear techniques to characterize some of the environmental threats our oceans face. Women and men equally make up half of the staff members at the Laboratories, including at the Section Head level. Pictured here are staff during IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano's visit in September 2016.

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7 June 2019

Gender and the Ocean: World Oceans Day at the IAEA Environment Laboratories

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