Monthly Online Updates on GE

2008 APRIL

• Anti-GM Rice Activists Arrested in Jakarta!
  Week of Rice Action (WORA) 2008, 8 April 2008
  
  Fifteen people from six countries were arrested today in Jakarta (Indonesia) by Polda Jaya (the Police Corps of Jakarta Raya Territory) for participating in a peaceful people's gathering to voice their protest against GM rice and call for saving the diversity of local rice to ensure people's food security.    read ...
  Source: www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp
• Anti-GE International Activists in Indonesia Freed Unconditionally
  Week of Rice Action (WORA), 11 April 2008
  
  Three harrowing days after they were hijacked by the police, and with their passports confiscated, the 15 international activists attending the WORA events in Jakarta, Indonesia to highlight the threats of genetically engineered (GE) rice, were today freed unconditionally.    read ...
  Source: www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp
• GM Failures Continue
  ISIS Press Release, 16 april 2008
  
  GM cotton has been failing in India and elsewhere for years [1] (Broken Promises, SiS 22), escalating the epidemic of farmers' suicides [2] (Stem Farmers' Suicides with Organic Farming, SiS 32). Unfortunately, the Indian government has allowed the commercial planting to continue with drastic consequences.    read ...
  Source: www.i-sis.org.uk/gmFailuresContinue.php
• Biotech firm on mat for GM trials
  Anindita Chowdhury
  The Statesman , April 17 2008
  
  KOLKATA, April 12: Field trials of genetically modified crops in Nadia are being conducted illegally by the subsidiary of an American biotech company, and these trials violate bio-safety regulations, says a report submitted by the principal agricultural officer to the district magistrate.    read ...
  Source: www.thestatesman.net/page.arcview.php
• 4000 scientists say GM Crops no silver bullet for hunger
  GM Freeze, Immediate Release 15 April 2008
  
  GM Freeze Call for Government, Industry and Scientists to Respond To IAASTD Report Challenges: GM Crops not the silver bullet to feed the world    read ...
  Source: www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp