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A report by Corporate Europe Observatory reveals how the biotech industry is trying to shape rules to allow the entry of new technologies for genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The industry has revived the discourse it used 20 years ago to pave the way for new genetic engineering techniques, and it has launched a European-level lobby with the goal of getting as many techniques as possible excluded from European Union regulation.
Dear sisters, friends, activists and fellow fighters,
In recent days, the world has been getting ready to celebrate the 8thof March, International Women’s Day, a date that is commemorated all over the world by unions, organisations, women’s groups, and more, many of whom are unaware of the day’s socialist origins that pay tribute to the women who died trapped in a factory fire where they were working in the United States.
The international peasant movement La Via Campesina denounces to the national and international public that on this day, 3 March 2016 in the early hours of dawn, our dear sister in struggle, BERTHA CÁCERES, General Coordinator of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) was assassinated.
On February 9th and 11th, 2016, over 200 residents of Nueva Concepción, Escuintla, Guatemala, held an action that was historic for their municipality and for many peoples; they freed the Madre Vieja River from several dams that were diverting its water toward oil palm and sugar cane plantations.
10 February 2016 | Press release - A day before the start of yet another trial brought on the Bolloré Group against French journalists, organisations denounce the imprisonment of six local community leaders affected by the investments of Socfin Agricultural Company Sierra Leone Ltd (SAC)[1], a subsidiary of Socfin, linked to Bolloré.
An article from the “Food and Environment Reporting Network” highlights an investigation into the hidden toll of World Bank–financed development projects, which shows how evictions, loss of family income and other hardships associated with dams, roads and other projects can be especially harmful to young people.
A report by some of the Friends of the Earth groups shows how some of the fires that affected Indonesia’s forests in the last months can be traced to companies that supply or are owned by Wilmar International, a company that spurred a dramatic wave of sustainability pledges in the palm oil sector in December 2013. Despite new evidence that the company violates its own ‘no deforestation’ policies, this report sustains how major U.S.
The report “12 Replies to 12 Lies about Oil Palm monocultures plantations”, which aims at strengthening the struggles of all those who are opposing large-scale oil palm plantations in the global South, is now also available in Swahili y Lingala.
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Swahili:http://wrm.org.uy/fr/files/2013/06/12_responses_Swahili.pdf
A declaration to be launched during the UN climate negotiations aims to draw attention to the need to keep fossil fuels in the ground and unburned, while supporting a just transition toward a clean energy future. The declaration recognizes that “the extraction, transportation and consumption of fossil fuels has caused severe damage to the earth, air, water, and all forms of life; and is the number one contributor to climate change and massive species extinction.
An article from “The Guardian” highlights how despite fire raging across over 5,000 km in Indonesia, the media “dominated by corporate press releases, photo ops and fashion shoots” is not paying attention. This catastrophe is having severe effects on many levels. Children are being prepared for evacuation on warships. Populations of species, including threatened species, are going up in smoke at an untold rate.