2006-04-18 | permalink
New documents released to Friends of the Earth reveal that the European Commission has been approving genetically modified foods and crops despite having serious doubts over their health and environmental impacts. Both Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace have today called for a suspension in the use and sale of all GM foods and crops until the safety issues have been addressed.</p><p><a href="http://www.foeeurope.org/press/2006/joint_18_April_GMOs.htm">Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace: Joint Press Release</a></p><p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4917302.stm">BBC News</a></p><p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/18/ugm.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/04/18/ixportaltop.html">The Daily Telegraph</a>
2005-12-22 | permalink
Labelling of genetically modified food is now law in Belarus. The Belarus government issued a decree requiring labelling of GMOs in spring this year.</p><p><a href="http://www.consumersinternational.org/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=94824&int1stParentNodeID=89650&int2ndParentNodeID=89677&int3rdParentNodeID=92710&int4thParentNodeID=92710&int5thParentNodeID=92710&int6thParentNodeID=92710&int7thParentNodeID=92710&int8thParentNodeID=92710&strSubSite=1&strLHSMenu=89650">Consumers International</a>
2005-12-15 | permalink
NGO Campaigners at the WTO Ministerial Conference in Hongkong delivered a petition "WTO: Hands Off Our Food" signed by more than 135,000 citizens from 100 countries and more than 740 organisations representing 60 million people against the US driven trade dispute over precautionary EU GMO legislation. WTO Deputy Director General Alejandro Jara at the handover refused to comment on earlier statements of former WTO chief Supachai that the WTO dispute panel had already decided against the EU. The official verdict is expected in January 2006. International activists Vandana Shiva and Jose Bove announced a global campaign against Monsanto: "This is not a case of US versus the EU, but clearly Monsanto versus the civil society".</p><p><a href="http://www.foeeurope.org/press/2005/AW_14_Dec_Bite_back.htm">Friends of the Earth: Bite back</a></p><p><a href="http://www.foeeurope.org/biteback/pics/transatlantic_trade_dispute_media_briefing.pdf">FOE briefing on the US vs. EU WTO GMO dispute</a></p><p><a href="http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=66760">Kerala News: Vandana Shiva takes fight against Monsanto to Hong Kong</a>
2005-12-10 | permalink
A court in Orleans has acquitted for the first time 49 "faucheurs volontaires" who had destroyed GM maize fields. The judges said the protesters "proved that they committed voluntary acts of damage on the goods of a third party in response to the needs of the situation ... a necessity driven by the uncontrolled release of modified genes that constitutes a real and present danger, and may be a source of undesired contamination and pollution".</p><p><a href="http://euronews.net/create_html.php?page=detail_info&article=325334&lng=1">EuroNews : French court acquits anti-GMO protesters</a></p><p><a href="http://www.monde-solidaire.org/spip/auteur.php3?id_auteur=869">Collectif des Faucheurs Volontaires d'OGM (F)</a></p><p><a href="http://permanent.nouvelobs.com/societe/20051209.FAP1911.html?1716">Nouvelle Observateur: Le tribunal correctionnel d'Orléans relaxe 49 faucheurs d'OGM (F)</a>
2005-12-09 | permalink
The GE campaign has launched a new website (in English), providing information and feedback on the situation in Iceland.</p><p><a href="http://www.erfdabreytt.net/main.asp">Campaign Website</a></p><p><a href="http://www.erfdabreytt.net/en_default2.asp?strAction=getPublication&intPublId=195">GMOs in Iceland - The Present State of Affairs</a>
