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Urgent action needed to protect people from Eswatini’s asbestos contamination, say civil society groups | Confront Power Orphanage operator Bulembu Ministries declined to comment on risks associated with the collapse of a pile of asbestos-mine tailings.

An orphanage full of children and an abandoned #asbestos mine. Rivers and carcinogens. Asbestos waste piles ready to collapse.

Our months-long investigation reveals #Bulembu in #Eswatini faces an ever-evolving crisis. 

Read Nokukhanya Musi’s in-depth report confrontpower.org/civil-societ...

Understanding the UK’s asbestos disaster | Confront Power Profit-hungry industry, complicit governments, and overly bureaucratic unions. Tom White, author of Bad Dust, provides his insights into the UK’s asbestos disaster and why the issues with asbestos ref...

How did it take more than 100 years of workers dying for an #asbestos ban to be considered in the UK? And why do exposures continue?

We speak to Tom White his new book Bad Dust: A History of the Asbestos Disaster.

Read the interview: confrontpower.org/uk-asbestos-...



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The lethal impact and current status of asbestos in British universities | Confront Power Many leading British universities are still full of asbestos. We investigated how much remains, its risk, and the human impact.

We profiled Aberdeen earlier in the year: confrontpower.org/asbestos-in-...

GIJN Africa Bulletin - September 09, 2025 Investigating Military Regimes, GIJC25, AIJC2025, Elections...

Our investigation into the asbestos legacy left by Turner & Newall in Eswatini is mentioned in GIJN Africa's newsletter as one of the Stories of the Month: twp.ai/4iq6nP

You can read the full story over at confrontpower.org.

University denies cancer-inducing asbestos risk despite audit documents The University of Oxford has denied that asbestos in its buildings could cause cancer despite successive audits showing non compliance.

Oxford Mail picked up our story on asbestos at Oxford University: www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2552472...

Asbestos: The Neoliberal Poison Asbestos exposure remains the leading cause of occupational deaths in Britain today. Why did successive neoliberal governments fail to address the problem — and how can we challenge their toxic legacy...

Asbestos exposure remains the leading cause of occupational deaths in Britain today. Why did successive neoliberal governments fail to address the problem — and how can we challenge their toxic legacy?

Our investigation into the legacy of UK asbestos company Turner & Newall in Eswatini reveals significant ongoing risks to those living near millions of tons of uncontained asbestos waste: confrontpower.org/asbestos-was...

Serious asbestos management failings at Oxford University, documents reveal | Confront Power The University of Oxford was ordered to release documents on its asbestos management, which showed the university was in breach of regulations designed to protect people from potentially fatal asbesto...

Documents obtained by Confront reveal serious issues with how the University of Oxford has managed the thousands of asbestos-containing materials in its buildings. Full story:
confrontpower.org/university-o... @ucu.org.uk

It took nearly a year to acquire these documents, which Oxford University only released after being reported to the ICO and were found to have breached the Environmental Information Regulations in how they dealt with our request.

Serious asbestos management failings at Oxford University, documents reveal | Confront Power The University of Oxford was ordered to release documents on its asbestos management, which showed the university was in breach of regulations designed to protect people from potentially fatal asbesto...

Documents obtained by Confront reveal serious issues with how the University of Oxford has managed the thousands of asbestos-containing materials in its buildings. Full story:
confrontpower.org/university-o... @ucu.org.uk

Documents discovered during legal cases in the USA show that for decades, major companies covered up the dangers of asbestos.

Barry Castleman explains some of the key findings: confrontpower.org/asbestos-ind...

The small town living alongside 50 million tons of asbestos waste By Nokukhanya Musi and Tom Quinn In the once-bustling town of Bulembu in Eswatini, a small landlocked country in southern Africa, the shadow of the asbestos mining industry looms large. The mine close...

We are happy to have cross-published our investigation into the legacy of Turner & Newall's asbestos mining in Africa with the Inhlase Centre for Investigative Journalism in Eswatini: inhlase.com/the-small-to...

This photograph shows women, children, and even a baby all being exposed to the extremely toxic blue asbestos in South Africa in the late 1950s. It was already well known that asbestos dust could be fatal by this point.

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This photograph shows women, children, and even a baby all being exposed to the extremely toxic blue asbestos in South Africa in the late 1950s. It was already well known that asbestos dust could be fatal by this point.

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Among the generation of carpenters working in the UK in the 1950s-1970s, “about 10% of them are going to die of asbestos-induced cancer,” epidemiologist Professor Julian Peto told Confront. How did this happen? Our story: confrontpower.org/how-asbestos...

Asbestos is banned in over 60 countries, but not in India, where experts warn of a coming epidemic of asbestos diseases among those exposed to asbestos at work.

Our story: confrontpower.org/asbestos-and...

The small town living alongside 50 million tons of asbestos waste By Nokukhanya Musi and Tom Quinn In the once-bustling town of Bulembu in Eswatini, a small landlocked country in southern Africa, the shadow of the asbestos mining industry looms large. The mine close...

We are happy to have cross-published our investigation into the legacy of Turner & Newall's asbestos mining in Africa with the Inhlase Centre for Investigative Journalism in Eswatini: inhlase.com/the-small-to...

Our investigation into the legacy of UK asbestos company Turner & Newall in Eswatini reveals significant ongoing risks to those living near millions of tons of uncontained asbestos waste: confrontpower.org/asbestos-was...

African town faces deadly threat from UK firm's asbestos waste | Confront Power Our investigation into the legacy of Turner & Newall in Eswatini has found widespread health and environmental risks for those living near a former asbestos mine

Exclusive: residents near what was Africa's largest asbestos mine, run by the now-bankrupt British company Turner & Newall, are living alongside 50 million tons of uncontained asbestos waste that is up to 180m high and at risk of collapse due to climate change. confrontpower.org/asbestos-was...

The family whose campaign defeated the Colombian asbestos industry | Confront Power Colombian asbestos companies insisted their asbestos posed no risk. They were wrong. One family took centre stage in the campaign to expose the truth and prohibit asbestos in Colombia.

Thousands of Colombians lost their lives to asbestos, while
Colombian asbestos companies insisted their asbestos posed no risk. They were wrong.

One family took centre stage in the campaign to expose the truth and prohibit asbestos in Colombia: confrontpower.org/colombia-asb...

The family whose campaign defeated the Colombian asbestos industry | Confront Power Colombian asbestos companies insisted their asbestos posed no risk. They were wrong. One family took centre stage in the campaign to expose the truth and prohibit asbestos in Colombia.

Thousands of Colombians lost their lives to asbestos, while
Colombian asbestos companies insisted their asbestos posed no risk. They were wrong.

One family took centre stage in the campaign to expose the truth and prohibit asbestos in Colombia: confrontpower.org/colombia-asb...

The ongoing asbestos trade & hidden disease in India | Confront Power India is failing to diagnose and compensate people who fall ill from the large amounts of asbestos it continues to import.

It's #WorldLungCancerDay. Asbestos-induced lung cancer kills tens of thousands around the world each year.

Our story from India looked at the ongoing asbestos trade, the risks workers are facing, and the impact lung cancer had on one family: confrontpower.org/asbestos-and...

How asbestos killed thousands of British carpenters | Confront Power Carpenters working in the 1950s to 1970s, like Denis Brown, were largely left unprotected from asbestos exposure. Thousands of deaths followed.

Denis Brown was part of a generation of carpenters who worked around large amounts of asbestos dust. Decades later, and thousands of carpenters like Denis have died from asbestos diseases.

Our story: confrontpower.org/how-asbestos... feat @londonasbestos.bsky.social

How asbestos killed thousands of British carpenters | Confront Power Carpenters working in the 1950s to 1970s, like Denis Brown, were largely left unprotected from asbestos exposure. Thousands of deaths followed.

Denis Brown was part of a generation of carpenters who worked around large amounts of asbestos dust, while leading asbestos manufacturers knew it could be fatal.

Decades later, and thousands of carpenters like Denis have died from asbestos diseases. Our story: confrontpower.org/how-asbestos...

The epidemic of asbestos diseases among British electricians | Confront Power The asbestos industry knew asbestos was carcinogenic, but for years, many electricians working with it didn't. An epidemic of asbestos-related diseases followed.

It's Action Mesothelioma Day 2025.

Mesothelioma kills over 2,000 people in the UK each year. We looked inside one family - and one profession - devestated by this asbestos cancer.
confrontpower.org/epidemic-of-... #AMD2025

Our new findings would be of particular interest to @sussexucu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social @umucu.bsky.social and @cardiffucu.bsky.social

Terminal illnesses and endless costs: the enduring legacy of the asbestos industry in UK universities | Confront Power Decades after it was fully banned, asbestos is still an issue across the UK's higher education system.

NEW: Confront investigation into the ongoing repercussions of the asbestos industry in UK universities. Decades after asbestos was banned we reveal the remaining asbestos still present on campuses, related illnesses, and enormous costs universities are left with. confrontpower.org/the-enduring...

Terminal illnesses and endless costs: the enduring legacy of the asbestos industry in UK universities | Confront Power Decades after it was fully banned, asbestos is still an issue across the UK's higher education system.

NEW: Confront investigation into the ongoing repercussions of the asbestos industry in UK universities. Decades after asbestos was banned we reveal the remaining asbestos still present on campuses, related illnesses, and enormous costs universities are left with. confrontpower.org/the-enduring...

“We were just playing with death.” Inside a South African town poisoned by asbestos | Confront Power Residents of Mafefe, South Africa, are still dealing with the toxic legacy of the apartheid-era asbestos mines.

For decades, asbestos has ravaged the South African ex-mining town of Mafefe. Yet its residents are still waiting for government help. Our latest report:
confrontpower.org/asbestos-and...

“This could have been prevented” - Chloride Batteries & Mesothelioma | Confront Power Chloride established a global reputation for its batteries, but workers like Terry Higson weren't protected from the asbestos used in its operations.

The Chloride factory in Clifton, Greater Manchester made batteries for planes, trains, and cars.

But in producing these batteries, some workers were left covered “head to toe” in dust containing asbestos. For Terry Higson, it proved to be a death sentence. Story: confrontpower.org/chloride-bat...