• Water pollution in Uzbekistan has led to an increase in birth defects and complications in pregnancy.
• Pesticide exposures in Central Sudan are linked to 22 percent of hospital stillbirths.
• Air pollution in the Ukraine has been linked to 21 percent of all illnesses affecting women and children.
• One in three women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with cancer sometime during their lives.
• Nuclear contamination in Chelyabinsk, Russia has led to a 21 percent increase in cancer and a 25 percent increase in birth defects. Half the population of child bearing age is sterile.
• In Guatemala, pesticide residues in breast milk are reported to be 250 times the amounts allowed in cow's milk.
• Most children in China take in DDT from breast milk at levels 10 times higher than internationally accepted maximums.