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GM Crops
GM Crops
Environmental and agricultural organisations, including Friends of the Earth Europe, have launched a campaign to prevent the further spread of genetically modified (GM) crops in Europe. The European Commission is considering reviving talks to approve 25 new GM-crops for cultivation. Such a move could drastically change farming in Europe, leading to a big increase in pesticide use, contamination of conventional and organic crops and further industrialisation of the countryside. Read more >
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Since September 2012 three peasant leaders have been killed in Paraguay. Peasant farmers are on the front line of the resistance to the expansion of soy plantations. Ask for an investigation into peasant leader killings in Paraguay > |
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Several Non-Governmental Organisations have condemned a statement by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, which defends the record of a Honduran palm oil company, Grupo Dinant, implicated in dozens of murders as well as other human rights abuses. Read more > |
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Palestine: The Israeli army arrested Hassan Yasser Karajeh, a 29 years old Palestinian youth activist in the Stop the Wall Campaign release Hassan Karajeh > |
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Indonesia: Police use excessive force at a protest in South Sumatera, resulting in the severe injury and arrest of an environmental activist and others. Call on the Indonesian police to release Anwar Sadat > |
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