Noticias y avisos

Six-year Global Moratorium Under Threat at UN Meetings.

OTTAWA March 20, 2006. As a critical meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) begins today in Curitiba, Brazil, thousands of Canadians and hundreds of organizations across the country are calling on Environment Minister Rona Ambrose to defend a moratorium on Terminator seed technology.

A European Union plenary decision has rejected proposals that undermine the global moratorium on the field-testing of Terminator Technology.

The E.U. resolution clearly states that: "[the decision] taken by COP5 in 2000, lays down a moratorium on the field-testing and marketing of V-GURT technology" and goes on to urge E.U. member states to "reject any proposals to undermine the moratorium on the field-testing and marketing of so-called terminator technologies set by CBD Decision V/5 through a 'case-by-case' assessment or approval of Genetic Use Restriction Technologies".

The final vote was a massive 419-1-5 in favour for a very strong mandate for the COP8 meeting in Brazil.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY MARCH 8, 2006

Statement of Second Women Farmers' Conference on Food Sovereignty

Islamabad, 8 March 2006: On the occasion of International Women's Day 2006, we, women farmers, farmers' organizations, Lok Sanjh Foundation, South Asia Network on Food, Ecology, and Culture (SANFEC), Bedari Fikr Forum, and human rights activists, gathered here at Dhok Gaji, a small village about 30 kilometers in the south of Islamabad to participate in the second women farmers' conference on food sovereignty. "National security is closely linked to food security and respect for local cultures", said Mr. Mahmood Ali, Federal Minister for Cabinet division. The Terminator seeds can no way be categorized as development technology. It will destroy biodiversity of the region. This region is very rich in biodiversity. Obviously, Terminator seeds will affect food production of the country.

The Independent and the Sunday Herald both reported March 5 that the UK government has abandoned its opposition to Terminator in plans unveiled in a new official document buried in a government website .

La Campaña Internacional Terminar Terminator informó en un boletín de prensa del 21 que Monsanto había cambiado su Compromiso público redactado en 1999 de no comercializar tecnología Terminator. En su nueva redacción sugiere que usaría semillas Terminator en cultivos no alimentarios y no descarta otros usos en el futuro. La Directora de Política Pública de Monsanto escribió una explicación a la Campaña Terminar Terminator, argumentando que en realidad no quería decir que usaría Terminator en cultivos no alimentarios. Monsanto corregirá nuevamente su Compromiso para remover esta interpretación. Oprima aquí para leer la postura oficial de Monsanto sobre Terminator .

1) Monsanto Responds
2) Terminar Terminator: Solicitud de aclaración relativa a la tecnología Terminator para cultivos no alimentarios.

Reconsidera su postura en torno a la tecnología de semillas estériles mientras una alianza global convoca a su prohibición definitiva

La estrategia de la industria y gobiernos para poner fin a la actual moratoria de facto a la tecnología Terminator en las Naciones Unidas fue confirmada por las acciones de Australia, con Nueva Zelandia y Canadá en una reunión de la Convención de Biodiversidad en Granada, España, que tomó lugar del 23 al 27 de enero. Se necesitan acciones intensificadas en todas las regiones del mundo para asegurarnos de que la moratoria pueda mantenerse y fortalecerse en la reunión de la ONU en marzo en Brasil (20-31 de marzo). Por favor únanse a la Campaña Internacional Terminar Terminator.

Today in Granada, Spain approximately 120 people, mostly local environmentalists, marched through the streets of Granada Spain to arrive at the United Nations meeting of Working Group Article 8(j) to protest Terminator technology. Inside the Congres Centre, delegates to the UN meeting waited anxiously for the second round of Terminator negotiations to start. Terminator will now be discussed tomorrow.

• Discurso de apertura de la reunión del Grupo de Trabajo 8j del CDB, el 23 de enero

• Palabras del Foro Indígena Internacional sobre Biodiversidad