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Control over food and agriculture. Permanent People's Tribunal Session. 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. Tribunal verdict vs. 6 agrochemical TNCs hailed, urgent action on recommendations urged. Around 2...

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Human Rights Perspective | www.agricorporateaccountability.net

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Control over food and agriculture. Permanent People's Tribunal Session. Agrochemical transnational corporations, which produce and/or market agricultural inputs, products or services, have been aggressively advancing their corporate interests. In the process, they have violated and continue to violate the spectrum of basic human rights - health and life, a healthy environment, safe working conditions, and livelihood among others. The corporate model of agriculture also threatens biodiversity and environm...

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Control over food and agriculture. Permanent People's Tribunal Session. Control over food and agriculture. The agrochemical TNCs emerged from the leftovers of World War II: a deadly progression from war chemicals to commercial agrochemicals for modern-day agriculture. The monopoly control, integration, concentration and expansion of the agrochemical TNCs were the result of a long process that began with their emergence after the Second World War. Intellectual Property Rights on Genetic Resources. This un...

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Control over food and agriculture. Permanent People's Tribunal Session. Download the full document here. SESSION ON AGROCHEMICAL TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS. Bangalore, 3-6 December 2011). Brief summary of the Tribunal's Findings and Recommendations. The six TNCs are responsible for gross, widespread and systematic violations of the right to health and life, economic, social and cultural rights, as well as of civil and political rights, and women and children's rights. For national governments and states ...

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Control over food and agriculture. Permanent People's Tribunal Session. To the Permanent People's Tribunal. Session on Agrochemical Transnational Corporations. The last two days we have heard from 19 witnesses; 4 technical witnesses and 15 survivors who have vividly through the experience and scientific research compelling substantiated the allegations made in the indictment. We have submitted our indictment and testimonies against the 6 Agrochemical TNCs charging them of:. The Agrochemical TNCs have com...

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Control over food and agriculture. Permanent People's Tribunal Session. 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. Bayer's top-selling pesticides continue to cause bee deaths worldwide. Agrochemical TNCs target of upcoming Permanent People's T...

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Women Assert Our Rights to Land and Resources! | PANAP

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Skip to main content. Steering Council / Management Committee. Task Force and Rice Advisory. Protect Our Children From Toxic Pesticides. No Pesticide Use Week (NPUW). Land and food rights. No Land, No Life. International advocacy and instruments. Rice events in Asia Pacific. Challenging the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). Asia Pacific Biodiversity Network (AP BioNet). Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Women assert our rights to land and resources. WOMEN Assert Our Rights.

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Control over food and agriculture. Permanent People's Tribunal Session. The BASF Group, based in Germany, is the world's largest chemical company operating primarily six business segements: chemicals, plastics, perfomance products, functional solutions, agricultural solutions, and oil and gas. The Agricultural Solutions segment is run by its subsidiaries BASF Crop Protection and BASF Plant Science. As of 2009, BASF was the world's third largest agrochemical company. Reported Sales: EUR 73.97 billion.

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Control over food and agriculture. Permanent People's Tribunal Session. The concentration of corporate power in food and agriculture is enormous. With this power, they effectively dictate what gets planted on farms, what goes into your plate and what is absorbed by your body . The small scale farmers, agricultural workers, Indigenous Peoples, rural communities, consumers and other sectors have no effective participation in the process. Control over food and agriculture. Read the full story here.