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APPENDIX 6 FORTY WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS FOR THE CASE AGAINST AGROCHEMICAL TNCS Defendant/s Country of Origin Country/Places Impacted Case Who/What Was Impacted 1. All USA, Germany, Switzerland Global Gross Human Rights Violations by the Defendants (General/Main Allegations) Rural communities, peasants, agricultural workers, indigenous people, fisherfolk, migrant workers, small scale farmers, women, children and youth, activists, scientists and consumers and the future generations 2. All USA, Germany, Switzerland Global Globalization and corporate aggression over people, land, food and resources as above 3. All USA, Germany, Switzerland Global Poisoning of people and the environment by pesticides as above 4. All USA, Germany, Switzerland Global The risk of genetically engineered crops to human health, the environment, food safety, and food security as above 5. All USA, Germany, Switzerland Global How intellectual property rights violate farmers’ rights as above 6. Monsanto USA Paraguay Glyphosate (poisoning of people and the environment) Rural communities including an 11- year old child 7. Monsanto USA Latin America, particularly GE soybean expansion and destruction of rural Farmers, rural communities 280
8. Monsanto USA USA Patents on seeds and destruction of family farms US farmers 9. Monsanto USA Mexico Bt corn, contamination of center of origin’s maize land races, and devastation of indigenous farms Native crop diversity, indigenous farmers, consumers, local food production 10. Monsanto USA India Bt brinjal: endangering the center of origin of brinjal and collusion to get Bt brinjal approved Native crop diversity, farmers, consumers 11. Monsanto USA India Bt cotton false promises: erosion of farmers’ rights and destruction of livelihoods, massive farmers suicides, increased pesticide use Cotton farmers, rural communities 12. Monsanto USA Indonesia Bt cotton bribery, undermining Indonesia’s selfdetermination Indonesian people, country’s sovereignty 13. Syngenta Switzerland Brazil (Paraná) GE testing and violence against social movements, endangering natural ecosystems, undermining selfdetermination Landless rural workers, pristine ecosystems, country’s sovereignty 14. Syngenta, US Government Switzerland USA Atrazine poisoning of the environment, threats to human health, manipulation of science and harassment of scientists US Midwest rural areas, farmers, human rights defenders 15. Syngenta Switzerland Malaysia Paraquat poisoning of people and the environment Women sprayers, plantation workers 281
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THE PERMANENT PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL S
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Copyright © Pesticide Action Netwo
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Contents THE INDICTMENT 1 THE PARTI
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4.5 DUPONT 4.5.1 Water Contaminatio
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THE PERMANENT PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL O
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1 THE PARTIES This Indictment is br
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2 INTRODUCTION: ESTABLISHING CONCER
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In spite of all these concerns, ove
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2.2 CORPORATE CONTROL OVER FOOD AND
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IMPACTS OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION The
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Structural Adjustment Programs faci
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2.3 CORPORATE CONTROL OF GENETIC RE
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Intellectual property law in the in
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deciding whether to allow future co
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THE GENE REVOLUTION IN AFRICA Havin
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paradoxically, there was no global
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and pesticide-dependent agriculture
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for human dignity. Given this funda
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producers to claim lack of proof of
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can cause a wide variety of adverse
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3.1.1.3 Violations of the right to
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Declaration on Environment and Deve
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Protected by IPRs and licensing mec
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people’s food production systems.
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plant populations, destroying micro
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Principle 4 Exceptions should be cl
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information crucial for survival. D
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3.2 goVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITIES Gov
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3.2.3 THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FEDERAL
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3.4 WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION The li
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states where a foreign national has
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per cent of the world pesticide mar
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• Dr Suzy Renckens, Official of E
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In 1994, UCC sold its shares in UCI
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Paraquat is not authorised for use
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of higher productivity. GRAIN repor
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Furthermore, close proximity determ
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failure may follow within hours or
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eported that they had been poisoned
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Testimony of Nagama Nagama began wo
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• Infertility: Documented reprodu
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control what is sprayed. “There w
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Syngenta in conjunction with the Ru
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seeds that express the gene Bacillu
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Genetic engineering and the environ
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and the Commission Nacional para el
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Stressing the importance of native
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the manufacture and production of G
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significantly different from Bt cot
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Monsanto built its GE capacity and
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4.2.2.2 Crop Contamination with gen
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4.2.4 THE CASE OF SILVINO TALAVERA
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isking health impacts on consumers
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eported to have had health problems
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162 poisoning cases, including 20 d
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ng/l in the ‘W’ reserve and 46-
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20-year aerial spraying of endosulf
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suspended clothianidin, imidaclopri
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active ingredient alone. 546 Bayer
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strains only after Friends of the E
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judicial investigations determined
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4.4.1 DOW - INVOLVEMENT IN BRIBERY
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4.5 DUPONT DuPont is a US corporati
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4.5.2 OTHER CASES AGAINST DUPONT Du
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The Clearfield market The R&D strat
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Collusion The EC granted approval t
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Such POPs bioaccumulate through the
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Shawna Larson, Tribal member and re
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asthma, congenital disorders, and l
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I wanted my kids to get an educatio
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A major concern is their effect on
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indicated 13,000 in 2006. In Mahara
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asthmatic symptoms worse in individ
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It has been estimated that 70 per c
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the sea, killing trees, crops, anim
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Impacts on food supplies Kamukhaan
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aching body, heart spasms, and alte
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fishing. According to residents, th
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Pesticide Carcinogenicity Other US
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100,000, civil society organisation
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for use in the cotton belt of Punja
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4.7.7.1 The Case of Zambia In the n
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Fipronil has caused a range of heal
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4.7.8.3 Human health concerns BASF
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CORPORATE INFLUENCE ON WHO AND FAO
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THE SCIENTIFIC PEER-REVIEW PROCESS
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sponsored studies that question Dr
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Grave threats to life An attempt to
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They work long hours and are depriv
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child labour due to the increased a
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have the obligation to adopt measur
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The African Charter of Human and Pe
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Article 25.1 of the UDHR states tha
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The Aarhus Convention asserts, in A
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5.5 norMS ON THE RESPONSIBILITIES O
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13. … encourage, where practicabl
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• Basel Convention on the Control
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6.1.1 VIOLATION OF THE RIGHT TO HEA
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same time that Bayer introduced neo
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and dismiss scientists; paid for co
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The two additional planetary bounda
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some sections of humanity before, o
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A further element of concern has to
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3. The specifically outrageous natu
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Further, states stand now obligated
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• Capturing legal education and r
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• Not fully pursuing alternative
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the best elements of the UN Draft C
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Death of bees Death of bees Atrazin
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APPENDIX 3 PROSECUTOR’S OPENING S
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CORPORATE CRIME IN THE ERA OF GLOBA
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In GUERRA v ITALY, The European Cou
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has commented that “every individ
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There was a shift in the dynamics o
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Page 233 and 234: • Agrochemical TNCs continue to v
Page 235 and 236: In this regard, we ask the PPT sess
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Page 239 and 240: What has been the performance of GE
Page 241 and 242: In Argentina, glyphosate-resistant
Page 243 and 244: Mice feeding studies of Cry1Ac have
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Page 247 and 248: APPENDIX 5.2 TECHNICAL WITNESS STAT
Page 249 and 250: international law and policy includ
Page 251 and 252: The impact of the imposition of IPR
Page 253 and 254: • IARCs themselves changing their
Page 255 and 256: Which corporations own the RR soybe
Page 257 and 258: esistant to pesticides. Pesticides
Page 259 and 260: What are the impacts of RR soybean
Page 261 and 262: Who is responsible for pesticide us
Page 263 and 264: struggle of the poor masses who hol
Page 265 and 266: APPENDIX 5.6 WITNESS STATEMENT POIS
Page 267 and 268: eing violated. We have human rights
Page 269 and 270: the German Office for Consumer Prot
Page 271 and 272: 1.2 million signatures have been co
Page 273 and 274: APPENDIX 5.8 WITNESS STATEMENT THE
Page 275 and 276: Trouble begins in the UK Around 200
Page 277 and 278: then prevented me from presenting t
Page 279 and 280: Many pesticide stocks are stored ou
Page 281: How long have you been working in t
Page 285 and 286: 24. BASF Germany USA Clearfield Pro
Page 287 and 288: ACRONYMS acat adm AGra ALS Aoa APHI
Page 289: PAN AP PANNa PCB PIc PMFAI POPs Ppb
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