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Corporate Responsibility on Transgenic Crops in Latin America. Testimonies of Victims of Agribusiness.

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Red por una América Latina Libre de Transgénicos

Date and Time
15 March 2006 13:15 - 15:0

Meeting
Third meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (BS COP MOP 3)

Liability in the Biosafety Protocol has become a very narrow concept. There is an urgent need to address the social and environmental impacts of GM crops that are being felt throughout Latin America. We will present testimonies of the victims of GM crop expansion, from Paraguay and Argentina. From Paraguay, Petrona Villasboa, member of CONAMURI (Coordination of Rural and Indigenous Women), will present her fight for justice after her son was killed by agrochemicals fumigations of GM soy fields. Jorge Galeano, leader of the Movimiento Agrario y Popular, will account of the repression of peasant organisations and violent land evictions taking place in Paraguay, orchestrated by soy producers. Sofia Gatica will present the case of the ¨Barrio Ituzaingo Annexo¨, a neighbourhood of the city of Cordoba (Argentina), that is surrounded by GM soy fields. The indiscriminate fumigations of soy has caused a disastrous health situation.