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The Durban Package: escape hatches, empty shells, and a death notice to equity
The next ten years could decide whether the world’s fight against climate change is lost or won. The Durban Package – the set of decisions agreed to in the summit – amounts to more heavy lifting for the South, less obligations for the North, and little help for the poor. Worse still, it means that the present decade will be a decade of zero progress in curbing global emissions, and one where equity as the basis of the global climate effort will have been abandoned.
Tribunal verdict vs. 6 agrochemical TNCs hailed, urgent action on recommendations urged
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International hailed the verdict of the Permanent People's Tribunal (PPT) against the world's six largest agrochemical companies Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow Chemical, DuPont and BASF after a historic four-day session that culminated in Bangalore, India yesterday.
Witnesses assert criminal liability of Big 6 agrochemical companies
Witnesses who testified in the four-day Permanent People's Tribunal (PPT) Session on Agrochemical Transnational Corporations (TNCs) assert that the pesticide industry's Big 6 should be held criminally liable for violations of human rights, as jurors are set to release today a historic verdict on the indictment brought forward by Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International on behalf of victims and survivors around the world.
On the 27th anniversary of the Bhopal Tragedy: Victims and survivors of the pesticide industry worldwide gather for historic tribunal
Around 200 people gathered today in Bangalore, India for the first day of the Permanent People's Tribunal (PPT) Session on Agrochemical Transnational Corporations (TNCs). Farmers and farmworkers, families of victims, environmental and health advocates, scientists, and lawyers have all their hopes pinned high on the outcome of the PPT, an international opinion tribunal that aims to indict the "Big Six" of the pesticide industry for human rights violations.
Farmers groups and advocates nix 'climate-smart agriculture'
The World Bank's 'triple win' solutions of 'Climate-Smart Agriculture' drew heavy flak at a side event organised yesterday by PANAP, PCFS, SIBAT, IBON International and the Peoples' Movement on Climate Change at the ongoing UNFCCC COP17 in Durban, South Africa.
Monsanto to stand trial for child's death and effects of controversial weed killer
It has been almost nine years since the death of the Paraguayan child Silvino Talavera, and Monsanto Company has yet to acknowledge that it has anything to do with it.
Justice never too late for Lake Apopka farmworkers
Sixty-one year old Geraldean Matthew, a former Lake Apopka farmworker , spends most of her days in ill health. Suffering from congestive heart failure, Lupus, and kidney failure, she believes that exposure to highly toxic pesticides that were sprayed several decades ago is responsible for her various illnesses, as well as those of her children.
PAN AP mounts side event inside the UNFCCC 17th Conference of the parties (COP 17)
Now that agriculture is included in the negotiations of the UNFCCC's 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17), research institutions backed by agrochemical transnational corporations (TNCs) are set to promote the so-called Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), which they claim ensures "triple win enhanced productivity and food security, increased climate resilience and reduced greenhouse gas emissions growth."
Bayer's top-selling pesticides continue to cause bee deaths worldwide
The worrisome deaths of bee populations worldwide is likely to continue as the German agrochemical company Bayer remains unrestricted in its manufacture and sale of neonicotinoid pesticides.
Bayer's accountability in the phenomenon known as the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is among the cases to be heard at the Permanent People's Tribunal (PPT) Session on Agrochemical Transnational Corporations (TNCs), a landmark international opinion tribunal that will try the six largest agrochemical TNCs for various human rights violations, to be held from December 3 to 6, 2011.
Global phase-out of endosulfan marks beginning of survivors' quest for justice
Thousands of victims and survivors of endosulfan rejoiced when in April 2011, the Fifth Conference of the Parties of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) finally agreed to put the highly toxic pesticide in the list of banned substances worldwide. Various health, environmental, and public interest groups have lobbied for years to ban endosulfan, an outdated DDT-era pesticide that has caused irreversible harm to human health, wildlife, and the environment.
Permanent People's Tribunal: Six largest agrochemical TNCs to stand trial for human rights violations
Giants of the pesticide and biotechnology industry will stand trial for human rights violations in a landmark Permanent People's Tribunal (PPT) to be held in India on December 3 to 6, Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) announced today.
Agrochemical TNCs target of upcoming Permanent People's Tribunal
Saluting the American people who in recent weeks have gathered in New York to collectively condemn corporate power and greed, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International will spearhead the first-ever Permanent People's Tribunal (PPT) Session on Agrochemical Transnational Corporations (TNCs) this December.
Philippine peasants hold national consultation on land grabbing
The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP/Peasant Movement of the Philippines) organised a national consultation on land grabbing last 15 November at the Oblate Missionary Centre in Quezon City. In cooperation with the Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific and supported by MISEREOR, it was attended by representatives from various peasant organisations from different provinces in the country.
Speculation in food: Core of food crisis and protests on World Foodless Day
The month-long occupation of Liberty Square in New York City by thousands of protesters and the series of demonstrations it has spawned in other cities and worldwide has underscored on this World Food Day that global hunger is caused by corporate greed. The Occupy Wall Street movement was coming. It is an inevitable consequence of the financial abuses of corporate monopolies and financial oligarchs who are shamelessly being bailed out now by imperialist governments.
Genetic Engineering in Agriculture Does Not Solve Food Insecurity in the Philippines
A reaction to the article, “DENR exec pushes for genetically modified organisms in food production” posted last 20 July 2011. (Link: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/26543/denr-exec-pushes-for-genetically-modified-organisms-in-food-production) to the points raised by director Marcial Amaro, Jr.
Bt Maize Cultivation need to be banned
It was shocking to know that after Bt Cotton, the National Bio Safety Committee was now considering to approve commercial planting of a food group Bt Maize and that in this connection it has already allowed restricted trials (The News, May16, 2011). No doubt, the Gene Giants who are out to control our food and agriculture are behind this, but where is our government? Is it not supposed to protect the interests of the farmers, especially small farmers; our environment and related health aspects.. What is the urgency and why the secrecy?
Address Japan Nuclear Threat with Truth and Precaution, not Misinformation
The threat to Filipino health and environment from the nuclear power plant disaster in Japan is serious and should not be downplayed. This threat should be addressed with truth and precaution and not misinformation. Government officials and the mainstream media repeatedly claim that there is no possibility that the nuclear radiation from Japan will reach the Philippines and that the radiation leak is minimal and pose no significant health risks. This is gross misrepresentation of facts.
UN Report: Ecological Agriculture Could Double Production in Ten Years
Ecological agriculture could double food production in entire regions within 10 years while mitigating climate change, according to a new UN report released just recently.
Statement of concern from international civil society organizations regarding field release of genetically modified mosquitoes
To:
Y.B. Dato’ Sri Liow Tiong Lai, Minister of Health
Y.B. Dato Sri Douglas Uggah Embas, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment
PAN AP releases paper on global land grabbing
Land grabbing in massive proportions is happening all over the world, threatening not only the survival of small farms but the very food sovereignty of nations.
