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Legal Opinion: Syngenta ignores Human Rights
Basel, 09.12.2011 - Syngenta ignores fundamental human rights by selling its Paraquat herbicide in developing countries. Both a legal opinion, as well as the Permanent People’s Tribunal held in India, which examined the practices of agrochemical corporations, have come to this conclusion. On the day before Human Rights Day, the Berne Declaration is using advertisements and an event to draw attention to the many victims of Syngenta’s highly-toxic best-seller.
No Pesticides Use Week 2011: Protect Our Women, Save Our Future!
Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PAN AP) calls for action to address the ill impacts of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) on women and children’s health and well-being. PAN AP will hold the No Pesticide Use Week (NPUW) campaign on Women, Children and Highly Hazardous Pesticides from December 3 to 10, 2011, which is the World Human Rights Day to highlight the dangers of HHPs and work towards their elimination. HHPs have high potential to cause illness, injury or death to humans and animals or damage to the environment.
Killer Pesticide Endosulfan to be Phased Out Globally
GENEVA: Gathered in Geneva for the Fifth Conference of the Parties this week, the nations of the world agreed to add endosulfan, an antiquated persistent insecticide, to the Stockholm Convention’s list of banned substances. Environmental health and justice organizations from around the world who have been working towards a ban welcomed the decision.
NGOs Host Endosulfan-free Café for Stockholm Convention Delegates: Health and community groups around the world call for an end to endosulfan
April 26, Geneva, Switzerland – Health and community leaders from across the globe are serving organic coffee, cashews and chocolate — free of the pesticide endosulfan — to Stockholm Convention delegates in Geneva. At the gathering this week the governments will decide whether to include the persistent insecticide in the Convention, which would ban it in the 173 countries that are Parties to the treaty.
PAN urges global uptake of effective and safe malaria control: NGOs worldwide applaud efforts to reduce reliance on DDT
On the occasion of next week’s World Malaria Day, April 25, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International urges governments around the world to redouble their efforts against malaria and adopt the safest and most effective approaches to combat this disease. PAN applauds the formation of the Global Alliance for Alternatives to DDT, an international multi-stakeholder process charged with reducing reliance on the pesticide DDT for malaria control worldwide.
Syngenta's bestseller 'Gramoxone' on the way to be listed as Severely Hazardous Pesticide Formulation by the Rotterdam Convention
Rome, April 1st 2011. The Chemical Review Committee of the Rotterdam Convention - a group of 31 designated experts - agreed to recommend that pesticides containing Paraquat (20% or above) should be listed in Annex III to the Rotterdam Convention. The proposal was made by Burkina Faso due to the high amount of poisonings related to the use of the Syngenta product Gramoxone Super (Paraquat 20%).
Defending the Indefensible: Endosulfan and the Indian Chemical Industry
Endosulfan is a highly toxic pesticide that accumulates in the food chain and in humans, travels long distances, and breaks down very slowly in the environment. Recently, an expert committee of the Stockholm Convention1 concluded that endosulfan requires global action to prevent further harms to human health and the environment2, and recommended listing it under Annex A of the Convention for global elimination3. In 2009, the Convention Expert Committee noted that more than 60 countries had banned endosulfan4.
Leelakumari Amma, endosulfan activist, selected as ‘Indiavision Person of the year 2010’
Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PAN AP) is pleased to inform our partners that renowned endosulfan activist Leelakumari Amma, of Periya, Kasargod, in Kerala, India has been selected as the ‘Indiavision Person of the year 2010’ for fighting for the cause of Endosulfan victims. Read more at http://expressbuzz.com/cities/kochi/indiavision-award-for-leelakumari-amma/235711.html
Agriculture and Plantation Trade Unions demand Global Ban on Endosulfan
Agriculture and plantation workers trade unions from the Asia/Pacific region meeting under the auspices of the International Union of Foodworkers (IUF) endorsed the Stockholm Convention decision to phase out Endosulfan globally. Endosulfan is one of the most commonly used pesticides in agriculture and plantations and has been recognised as a highly toxic chemical causing widespread environmental and health impacts.
No Pesticides Use Week 2010: Save Women from Highly Hazardous Pesticides!
Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PAN AP) calls for precaution to address the issue of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) which impacts women’s health and wellbeing. PAN AP in collaboration with 12 partner organizations from 9 countries in the region is launching the No Pesticide Use Week (NPUW) campaign with the theme Women and Highly Hazardous Pesticides to highlight this issue. NPUW will start on 3rd December in memory of the 1984 Bhopal Disaster, and culminate on December 10, which is World Human Rights Day.
