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· Sep 29
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...
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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
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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.
You can read the full story over at confrontpower.org.
GIJN Africa Bulletin - September 09, 2025
Investigating Military Regimes, GIJC25, AIJC2025, Elections...
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October 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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.
You can read the full story over at confrontpower.org.
Oxford Mail picked up our story on asbestos at Oxford University: www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2552472...
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.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Oxford Mail picked up our story on asbestos at Oxford University: www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2552472...
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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: 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...
tribunemag.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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?
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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...
August 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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...
Reposted by Confront
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
confrontpower.org/university-o... @ucu.org.uk
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...
confrontpower.org
September 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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
confrontpower.org/university-o... @ucu.org.uk
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
confrontpower.org/university-o... @ucu.org.uk
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...
confrontpower.org
September 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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
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...
Barry Castleman explains some of the key findings: confrontpower.org/asbestos-ind...
September 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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...
Barry Castleman explains some of the key findings: confrontpower.org/asbestos-ind...
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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...
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...
inhlase.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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...
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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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September 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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.
confrontpower.org/south-africa...
confrontpower.org/south-africa...
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.
confrontpower.org/south-africa...
confrontpower.org/south-africa...
September 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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.
confrontpower.org/south-africa...
confrontpower.org/south-africa...
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...
September 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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...
Our story: confrontpower.org/asbestos-and...
August 31, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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...
Our story: confrontpower.org/asbestos-and...
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...
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...
inhlase.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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...
August 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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...
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...
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
confrontpower.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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...
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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...
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.
confrontpower.org
August 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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...
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...
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...
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.
confrontpower.org
August 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
confrontpower.org
August 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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...
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...
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
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.
confrontpower.org
July 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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
Our story: confrontpower.org/how-asbestos... feat @londonasbestos.bsky.social
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...
Decades later, and thousands of carpenters like Denis have died from asbestos diseases. Our story: confrontpower.org/how-asbestos...
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.
confrontpower.org
July 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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...
Decades later, and thousands of carpenters like Denis have died from asbestos diseases. Our story: confrontpower.org/how-asbestos...
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
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
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.
confrontpower.org
July 4, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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
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
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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.
confrontpower.org
June 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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...
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.
confrontpower.org
June 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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...
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...
confrontpower.org/asbestos-and...
“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.
confrontpower.org
May 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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...
confrontpower.org/asbestos-and...
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...
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...
“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.
confrontpower.org
May 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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...
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...