This section contains press advisories, interviews, videos, publications, photo galleries and other useful information concerning the Basel Convention.

The section includes publication material produced internally by Parties, the secretariat, the Basel Convention Regional Centres and other key actors as well as link and references to external websites and other sources of interest.

The Executive Secretary´s Keynotes section contains, in document and/or video form, an on-line collection of key messages, interventions and presentations by the Executive Secretary, Ms. Katharina Kummer Peiry, at Conferences and other important events relevant to the Basel Convention.

• Press Release: Geneva, 14 May 2010. Old ships and obselete computers part of major transition for global waste management.
• Press Release: Geneva, 12 May 2010. Diverting used computers from landfill to boost environmental outcomes and jobs gathers pace (this document is also available in Spanish).
• Press Release: Prague, 24 March 2010. Mobile phones generate cash for gorilla conservation, not waste.
• Press Release: Breaking-ground south-south cooperation on environmentally sound management of hazardous materials and wastes is launched
• Press Release: UN Agencies ‘Deliver as One’ To Realize a Green Economy
• World Customs Organization press release of 8 July 2009: "Operation Demeter yields tons of illegal shipments of hazardous waste"
• Press Release: Geneva, 16 February 2009. Basel Convention leads by example in the run towards climate neutrality.

This section contains news from all around the world where the Basel Convention is mentioned.

• Basel Convention press releases (1995 - 2007)
• Basel Convention bulletins (2003 - 2005)

The United Nations Campaign for Responsibility on Hazardous Chemicals and Wastes.

• Background Statement revised on July 2010.
• Safe Planet campaign tests "body burden" of celebrities to expose risk of chemicals.
• Press Release: Geneva, 16 July 2010. Ship Recycling Workshop seeks to improve Pakistan's ability to convert end-of-life ships into recyclable materials and dispose of hazardous wastes safely. (Read this press release on facebook)
• United Nations Safe Planet Campaign launches film screening and discussion in Houston, Texas. Download a flyer announcing this event.

The Basel Convention Highlights section contains, in document and/or video form, an on-line collection of messages, interventions and presentations by UN and Parties' Representatives as well as other persons closely related to the Basel Convention, at meetings, conferences and other important events relevant to the Basel Convention.

• Photo Gallery: Katharina Kummer Peiry, Executive Director of the Basel Convention, welcomed the launch of a mobile phone collection and recycling project by the Prague Zoo, Czech Republic, on 24 March 2010. The recycling project will raise funds to support conservation of the endangered Lowland Gorilla in the Greater Congo Basin of Central Africa.
• Photo Gallery: Seventh Session of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG7)