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03/31/2006 An Indian group of people living with HIV/AIDS have opposed a patent application filed by global pharma major GlaxoSmithKline for Combivir, a fixed dose combination AIDS drug on the grounds that it would make the treatment unaffordable. A number of Indian NGOs have submitted their opposition, based on technical and health grounds, to a patent application filed at the Kolkata patent office by the company.
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Related: [India] [Corporations] [HIV/AIDS] [Civil Society] [Law]
Ford Escape Hybrid SUV
03/31/2006 On the surface, new fuel efficiency standards announced by the Bush Administration Wednesday would seem to constitute a move toward energy independence and a more stable climate. But just below the surface...
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From: OneWorld US
Related: [United States] [Energy] [Consumption] [Corporations] [Climate Change] [Politics]
Image: Ford Escape Hybrid SUV © Environment News Service (ENS)
03/30/2006 The Alternative Report by NGO War on Want is the first full exposé of Coca-Cola’s activities worldwide, and forms part of War on Want’s ongoing campaign for directors to be made liable for corporate wrongdoing. The report also focusses on the harm that communities have faced because of the company.
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Image: © Aaron Couch / India Resource Center
Indian farmers burn genetically modified crop
03/30/2006 Cotton farmers in the south Indian state of Andhara Pradesh are being lured into debt by seed MNCs by selling expensive genetically modified seeds which have failed to deliver a good harvest. Farmers allege that a black market has been created for the seeds, gifts are being given to farmers and even unapproved GM seeds are being sold.
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Related: [India] [Agriculture] [Poverty] [Corporations] [Debt] [Genetics]
Image: Indian farmers burn genetically modified crop © Intercontinental Caravan (ICC)
Ricercatore in un laboratorio
03/29/2006 Mentre l'Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità (Oms) e l'UNAids hanno reso noto un rapporto sull'espansione del trattamento antiretrovirale per i malati di Aids e tendono all'estensione universale della terapia, l'organizzazione Medici Senza Frontiere (Msf) esprime preoccupazione sull'impossibilità di rendere disponibili su larga scala i farmaci antiretrovirali essenziali all'espansione del trattamento. L'Oms e i donatori internazionali sembrano ignorare la minaccia che grava sull'accesso a prezzi equi dei farmaci essenziali, una delle barriere chiave all'estensione globale del trattamento. Un crescente numero di persone affette dall'HIV, già da anni in trattamento, avranno in un futuro prossimo sempre maggior bisogno di accedere a nuove terapie i cui prezzi rimarranno estremamente elevati.
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Related: [Corporations] [Health] [HIV/AIDS] [Disease/treatment]
Image: Ricercatore in un laboratorio © International Development and Environment Article Service
Lavoro minorile da ILO
03/29/2006 Promuovere uno standard di azienda socialmente responsabile, prendendo come fondamentale riferimento la proposta di Norme sui diritti umani per le imprese, pubblicate nel 2003 dalla sottocommissione per i diritti umani delle Nazioni Unite. È con questo scopo che ActionAid International, Amnesty International, Arci, Fondazione Culturale Responsabilità Etica, Mani Tese, Movimento Consumatori, Movimento difesa del cittadino e Ucodep hanno fondato l’associazione “Valore Sociale”. Valore Sociale si propone come punto di riferimento per le aziende che intendono avviare un percorso di certificazione, che garantisca l’adeguamento ai più elevati standard in materia di tutela dei diritti umani e dell’ambiente.
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Related: [Children] [Corporations] [Environment] [Ethics & Value Systems]
Image: Lavoro minorile da ILO
03/28/2006 India's left-leaning, United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has on the anvil controversial legislation that would see jobs reserved for 'Dalits' (people socially deemed low caste by birth) in private corporations after a pattern that has long existed in the public sector.
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Related: [India] [Social Exclusion] [Corporations] [Human Rights] [Governance]
03/28/2006 The India Resource Center is urging delegates to the National Union of Students (NUS) in the UK to vote to end business relationships with the Coca-Cola company. The (NUS) is holding its Annual General Meeting in Blackpool from March 27-30, and the issue of whether to renew contracts with the Coca-Cola company is expected to be debated widely at the conference.
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03/28/2006 Calls for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which is meeting at Curitiba in Brazil, to end its six-year moratorium on the planting of infertile genetically modified (GM) crops have been rejected. Though Australia, Canada and New Zealand backed the proposal, but opponents say that such seeds could make farmers dependent on MNCs.
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Related: [Agriculture] [Poverty] [Corporations] [Genetics] [Corruption & Transparency]
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Manifestazioni indigene a Quito - da CONAIE
03/28/2006 Dopo due settimane in cui l’Ecuador è stato teatro di imponenti proteste indigene che hanno paralizzato il Paese, la Conaie (Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador), principale confederazione di organizzazioni indigene ecuadoriane, ha chiesto alle migliaia di indios mobilitati di rientrare ai propri villaggi. “Abbiamo raggiunto un importante risultato, quello di aver presentato a livello internazionale la condizione critica in cui versa il nostro Ecuador” - recita un comunicato stampa degli indigeni. Dal 13 marzo intere comunità di popoli indios, provenienti da tutte le province del piccolo Paese andino, hanno raggiunto la capitale Quito per opporsi alla imminente firma del Trattato di libero commercio andino (TLC) con gli Stati Uniti. Un accordo già firmato da Colombia e Perù che, attraverso la liberalizzazione degli scambi di beni e servizi, “intende sottoporre al controllo di altri le nostre risorse naturali e la nostra stessa sovranità territoriale e politica” - afferma Luis Macas, leader della Conaie.
di Tancredi Tarantino
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From: Unimondo, Selvas.org
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Image: Manifestazioni indigene a Quito - da CONAIE
03/27/2006 Congress is considering legislation--promoted by the cable companies--that could eliminate support for Public Access TV. But the stations themselves, including New York's popular Manhattan Neighborhood Network, are at the forefront of a massive campaign to save the stations.
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From: Media Rights Agenda
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03/27/2006 Greenpeace activists protested in front of the New Zealand Embassy in New Delhi on Friday, with a banner exhorting New Zealand to 'Keep the Ban on Terminator Seeds'. The protestors also distributed leaflets to hundreds of passers-by in peak hour traffic.
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03/25/2006 Dal 16 al 22 marzo si è tenuto in Messico il quarto Foro Mondiale dell’Acqua. La dichiarazione ministeriale conclusiva del foro non include il diritto all’acqua come diritto fondamentale. A differenza di quella ministeriale, questo richiamo dell’acqua come diritto è contenuto nella dichiarazione parallela firmata dalla coalizione Bolivia, Cuba, Venezuela. Dal foro alternativo delle organizzazioni della società civile è uscita una dichiarazione, che riprende pienamente la dichiarazione di Caracas, aggiungendo ulteriori contenuti al documento, quali la riflessione sulla legittimità del Foro Mondiale dell’Acqua e la ricerca di altre istituzioni che coordino, a livello globale, azioni per la risoluazione di problemi legati alla gestione dell’acqua. E a conclusione del forum è stato presentato il secondo Rapporto della Nazioni Unite sullo Sviluppo delle Risorse Idriche nel Mondo (WWDR), documento nato dalla collaborazione di 24 agenzie del sistema ONU, insieme a governi nazionali ed altre organizzazioni di studio e ricerca.
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03/24/2006 People of Mehdiganj in north India have launched an indefinite vigil against a Coca-Cola bottling plant demanding that the plant be permanently shut down. Nearly five hundred community members set up a tent in front of the Coca-Cola bottling plant in the holy city of Varanasi and declared that they will carry on the protest until the plant is shut down.
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Wind Power!
03/24/2006 As the cost of natural gas continues to climb, wind-generated electricity is gaining ground as an affordable and renewable alternative, argues eco-economy guru Lester Brown. In fact, both rural communities and big-time players are beginning to take notice--and take advantage.
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From: Earth Policy Institute
Related: [United States] [Energy] [Consumption] [Corporations] [Conservation] [Pollution] [Renewable Energy]
Image: Wind Power! © Worldwatch Institute
Polizia disperde manifestanti a Quito - da Selvas
03/24/2006 Lasciando più di cento feriti e arrestando trenta manifestanti i militari hanno respresso la protesta pacifica del popolo ecuadoriano contro il Trattatto di libero commercio, la multinazionale Oxy e il Plan Colombia. Il Presidente Palacio ha decretato lo stato di emergenza sospendendo i diritti e le libertà civili e ha rifiutato di sottoporre il Trattato a referendum come proposto dalla Confederazione delle nazionalità indigene (Conaie). Ha inoltre scartato l’offerta della Chiesa cattolica di agire in qualità di mediatore tra l’esecutivo e i settori indigeni che da dodici giorni manifestano in diverse parti del paese. L'entrata in vigore del Trattato causerebbe un aumento dei prezzi del 65% nella sola produzione agricola. Scioperi e i blocchi stradali anche contro il contratto-truffa stipulato dal Governo con la multinazionale statunitense Oxy, per il ritiro dei militari dalla base di Manta e contro il Plan Colombia che viola la sovranità dello Stato ecuadoriano. Malgrado lo stato di emergenza, decretato dal Governo e la dura repressione dell'esercito, le organizzazioni sociali comunicano che le mobilitazioni continueranno nei prossimi giorni.
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From: MISNA , Selvas.org
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Image: Polizia disperde manifestanti a Quito - da Selvas
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03/23/2006 Suomen Maan ystävät pitää Uruguayn ja Argentiinan kansalaisjärjestöjen puolta sellutehdaskiistassa. Järjestöt, Uruguayn hallitus sekä molempien maiden presidentit pyytävät Metsä-Botniaa keskeyttämään sellutehtaan rakentamisen Uruguayn ja Argentiinan rajalle. Tehtaan pelätään vaikuttavan negatiivisesti alueen ympäristöön, ilmanlaatuun, kalastuselinkeinoon ja turismiin.
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From: Maan ystävät
Related: [Argentina] [Uruguay] [Corporations]
Image: - © Ashoka / Changemakers.net
Protests against water privatisation.
03/23/2006 The mantra of development policies promoted by international lending agencies and governments - that private companies would be able to bring water to the world’s poor - has proven false. In the past decade, private companies have managed to extend water service to just 10 million people, less than one per cent of those who need it, according to a private water suppliers trade group. The UN says nearly 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to clean water.
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Related: [Aid] [Water/Sanitation] [Corporations] [Globalization] [Governance]
Image: Protests against water privatisation. © Julie Plasencia / AP / The UNESCO Courier
IV Forum mondiale dell'acqua
03/22/2006 I movimenti approvano a chiusura del Controforum una dichiarazione congiunta sull’acqua come "diritto umano". "Disorientamento e confusione caratterizzano invece la sessione finale 4° Forum ufficiale, che si avvia verso un naufragio" - comunica da Città del Messico Emilio Molinari, Presidente del Comitato Italiano del Contratto Mondiale dell’Acqua. “Forse per la prima volta il Forum non si concluderà con un documento unanime: la bozza di documento che sarà votata dai 140 governi non contiene l'acqua come diritto umano. La risoluzione del Parlamento Europeo che aveva messo in imbarazzo la Commissione Europea, al punto che la ministra spagnola Cristina Narbone Ruiz aveva dichiarato di voler rispettare il mandato del Parlamento, oggi invece parla di ricerca di un minimo comune denominatore perchè è meglio un testo "insignificante" ad un non accordo, che dichiarerebbe il fallimento del Forum. I ministri della Commissione Europea hanno riconosciuto che gli interessi espressi dai privati sono notevoli e che hanno subito forti pressioni dalle multinazionali".
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Image: IV Forum mondiale dell'acqua
03/22/2006 The third annual April Fuels Day is just around the corner. Find out what you can do to help encourage the use of pollution-free alternatives by joining the Jumpstart Ford Campaign today!
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From: Global Exchange
Related: [United States] [Corporations] [Environmental Activism] [Atmosphere] [Pollution] [Renewable Energy] [Activism] [Civil Society]
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