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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Reminding the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of its obligations to uphold human rights, 430 civil society and Indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries across the globe today called on the FAO Council to rescind the agency&amp;rsquo;s partnership with CropLife International, the industry association representing the world&amp;rsquo;s largest pesticide manufacturers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Ahead of the FAO Council&amp;rsquo;s 170th session that begins on June 13, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) submitted to members of the Council a &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/Letter%20to%20FAO.pdf&quot;&gt;letter&lt;/a&gt; co-sponsored by 10 other global networks, and on behalf of the 430 organizations, urging it to take immediate action in the Council session. &amp;nbsp;This demand builds on the ongoing concerns expressed by civil society and Indigenous People&amp;rsquo;s organizations, and on recommendations made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food during the Human Rights Council&amp;rsquo;s 49th session, namely: &amp;ldquo;to review the agreement with CropLife International with an eye to human rights concerns&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;to consider directing the Director-General of FAO to rescind the agreement.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In the letter, the 430 organizations expressed concerns about how CropLife member companies (BASF, Bayer Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience, Sumitomo, FMC and Syngenta) have &amp;ldquo;interfered in national policy and exert enormous pressure on governments that take measures to protect people and the environment from pesticide harms.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In October 2020, the FAO signed a Letter of Intent with CropLife to cooperate on a broad range of areas, as part of the agency&amp;rsquo;s Private Sector Engagement Strategy. &amp;ldquo;FAO deepening its collaboration with CropLife International directly counters any efforts toward progressively banning Highly Hazardous Pesticides, as recommended for consideration by the FAO Council as early as 2006,&amp;rdquo; the letter stated.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The organizations also underscored that the partnership, which has been in effect for over a year and a half, &amp;ldquo;undercuts the FAO and several Member States&amp;rsquo; support for agroecology, an approach that offers viable and sustainable proposals for generating ecologically-based food and farming systems without the use of toxic pesticides.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The letter pointed out that FAO&amp;rsquo;s own due diligence process indicates that companies involved in human rights abuses can be excluded from potential partners. The organizations assert that the &amp;ldquo;use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations to: Health; Clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Safe working conditions; Adequate food; safe and clean water and sanitation; A dignified life; and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, women, children, workers, and peasants and other people working in rural areas.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In addition, a briefing report entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Addressing the Conflict of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Interest and Incompatibility of FAO&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Partnership with CropLife International&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;--detailing the necessity to end what civil society and Indigenous peoples call the &amp;ldquo;Toxic Alliance&amp;rdquo; between the FAO and the pesticide industry&amp;ndash;was submitted to the FAO Council by 11 global organizations spearheading the campaign.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;A separate &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf&quot;&gt;briefing report&lt;/a&gt; entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry&amp;#39;s Deepening&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Influence on Global Food Governance&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;rdquo; with the partnership with CropLife as among the case studies, was also submitted to the FAO and Member States in time for the FAO Council session.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Links to letter to the FAO Council&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;English: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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French: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Link to the &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Briefing Report&lt;/a&gt; to FAO Member States: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Reminding the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of its obligations to uphold human rights, 430 civil society and Indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries across the globe today called on the FAO Council to rescind the agency&amp;rsquo;s partnership with CropLife International, the industry association representing the world&amp;rsquo;s largest pesticide manufacturers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Ahead of the FAO Council&amp;rsquo;s 170th session that begins on June 13, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) submitted to members of the Council a &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/Letter%20to%20FAO.pdf&quot;&gt;letter&lt;/a&gt; co-sponsored by 10 other global networks, and on behalf of the 430 organizations, urging it to take immediate action in the Council session. &amp;nbsp;This demand builds on the ongoing concerns expressed by civil society and Indigenous People&amp;rsquo;s organizations, and on recommendations made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food during the Human Rights Council&amp;rsquo;s 49th session, namely: &amp;ldquo;to review the agreement with CropLife International with an eye to human rights concerns&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;to consider directing the Director-General of FAO to rescind the agreement.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In the letter, the 430 organizations expressed concerns about how CropLife member companies (BASF, Bayer Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience, Sumitomo, FMC and Syngenta) have &amp;ldquo;interfered in national policy and exert enormous pressure on governments that take measures to protect people and the environment from pesticide harms.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In October 2020, the FAO signed a Letter of Intent with CropLife to cooperate on a broad range of areas, as part of the agency&amp;rsquo;s Private Sector Engagement Strategy. &amp;ldquo;FAO deepening its collaboration with CropLife International directly counters any efforts toward progressively banning Highly Hazardous Pesticides, as recommended for consideration by the FAO Council as early as 2006,&amp;rdquo; the letter stated.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The organizations also underscored that the partnership, which has been in effect for over a year and a half, &amp;ldquo;undercuts the FAO and several Member States&amp;rsquo; support for agroecology, an approach that offers viable and sustainable proposals for generating ecologically-based food and farming systems without the use of toxic pesticides.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The letter pointed out that FAO&amp;rsquo;s own due diligence process indicates that companies involved in human rights abuses can be excluded from potential partners. The organizations assert that the &amp;ldquo;use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations to: Health; Clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Safe working conditions; Adequate food; safe and clean water and sanitation; A dignified life; and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, women, children, workers, and peasants and other people working in rural areas.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In addition, a briefing report entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Addressing the Conflict of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Interest and Incompatibility of FAO&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Partnership with CropLife International&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;--detailing the necessity to end what civil society and Indigenous peoples call the &amp;ldquo;Toxic Alliance&amp;rdquo; between the FAO and the pesticide industry&amp;ndash;was submitted to the FAO Council by 11 global organizations spearheading the campaign.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;A separate &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf&quot;&gt;briefing report&lt;/a&gt; entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry&amp;#39;s Deepening&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Influence on Global Food Governance&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;rdquo; with the partnership with CropLife as among the case studies, was also submitted to the FAO and Member States in time for the FAO Council session.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Links to letter to the FAO Council&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;English: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
Spanish: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
French: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Link to the &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Briefing Report&lt;/a&gt; to FAO Member States: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Kindly &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access the press release dated June 9, 2022.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

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The organizations assert that the &amp;ldquo;use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations to: Health; Clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Safe working conditions; Adequate food; safe and clean water and sanitation; A dignified life; and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, women, children, workers, and peasants and other people working in rural areas.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In addition, a briefing report entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot; title=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Addressing the Conflict of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot; title=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Interest and Incompatibility of FAO&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot; title=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Partnership with CropLife International&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;--detailing the necessity to end what civil society and Indigenous peoples call the &amp;ldquo;Toxic Alliance&amp;rdquo; between the FAO and the pesticide industry&amp;ndash;was submitted to the FAO Council by 11 global organizations spearheading the campaign.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;A separate &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf&quot; title=&quot;/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf&quot;&gt;briefing report&lt;/a&gt; entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot; title=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry&amp;#39;s Deepening&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot; title=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Influence on Global Food Governance&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;rdquo; with the partnership with CropLife as among the case studies, was also submitted to the FAO and Member States in time for the FAO Council session.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Links to letter to the FAO Council&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;English: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&quot; title=&quot;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Spanish: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022&quot; title=&quot;https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;French: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&quot; title=&quot;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Link to the &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot; title=&quot;/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Briefing Report&lt;/a&gt; to FAO Member States: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&quot; title=&quot;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Kindly &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit&quot; title=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access the press release dated June 9, 2022.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
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                <p style="text-align:justify">-Press release by Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International and&nbsp;430 civil society and indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries dated June 9, 2022&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Reminding the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of its obligations to uphold human rights, 430 civil society and Indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries across the globe today called on the FAO Council to rescind the agency&rsquo;s partnership with CropLife International, the industry association representing the world&rsquo;s largest pesticide manufacturers.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Ahead of the FAO Council&rsquo;s 170th session that begins on June 13, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) submitted to members of the Council a <a href="/upload/files/Letter%20to%20FAO.pdf" title="/upload/files/Letter%20to%20FAO.pdf">letter</a> co-sponsored by 10 other global networks, and on behalf of the 430 organizations, urging it to take immediate action in the Council session. &nbsp;This demand builds on the ongoing concerns expressed by civil society and Indigenous People&rsquo;s organizations, and on recommendations made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food during the Human Rights Council&rsquo;s 49th session, namely: &ldquo;to review the agreement with CropLife International with an eye to human rights concerns&rdquo; and &ldquo;to consider directing the Director-General of FAO to rescind the agreement.&quot;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In the letter, the 430 organizations expressed concerns about how CropLife member companies (BASF, Bayer Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience, Sumitomo, FMC and Syngenta) have &ldquo;interfered in national policy and exert enormous pressure on governments that take measures to protect people and the environment from pesticide harms.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In October 2020, the FAO signed a Letter of Intent with CropLife to cooperate on a broad range of areas, as part of the agency&rsquo;s Private Sector Engagement Strategy. &ldquo;FAO deepening its collaboration with CropLife International directly counters any efforts toward progressively banning Highly Hazardous Pesticides, as recommended for consideration by the FAO Council as early as 2006,&rdquo; the letter stated.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">The organizations also underscored that the partnership, which has been in effect for over a year and a half, &ldquo;undercuts the FAO and several Member States&rsquo; support for agroecology, an approach that offers viable and sustainable proposals for generating ecologically-based food and farming systems without the use of toxic pesticides.&rdquo;</p><p style="text-align:justify">The letter pointed out that FAO&rsquo;s own due diligence process indicates that companies involved in human rights abuses can be excluded from potential partners. The organizations assert that the &ldquo;use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations to: Health; Clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Safe working conditions; Adequate food; safe and clean water and sanitation; A dignified life; and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, women, children, workers, and peasants and other people working in rural areas.&rdquo;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In addition, a briefing report entitled &ldquo;<a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Addressing the Conflict of</a> <a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Interest and Incompatibility of FAO&rsquo;s</a> <a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Partnership with CropLife International</a>&rdquo;--detailing the necessity to end what civil society and Indigenous peoples call the &ldquo;Toxic Alliance&rdquo; between the FAO and the pesticide industry&ndash;was submitted to the FAO Council by 11 global organizations spearheading the campaign.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">A separate <a href="/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf" title="/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf">briefing report</a> entitled &ldquo;<a href="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972" title="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972">Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry&#39;s Deepening</a> <a href="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972" title="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972">Influence on Global Food Governance</a>,&rdquo; with the partnership with CropLife as among the case studies, was also submitted to the FAO and Member States in time for the FAO Council session.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Links to letter to the FAO Council</p><p style="text-align:justify">English: <a href="https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022" title="https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022">https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022</a>&nbsp;<br />Spanish: <a href="https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022" title="https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022">https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022</a>&nbsp;<br />French: <a href="https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022" title="https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022">https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022</a>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Link to the <a href="/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Briefing Report</a> to FAO Member States: <a href="https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief" title="https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief">https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief</a> &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Kindly <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit" title="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit">click here</a> to access the press release dated June 9, 2022.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak</strong></p>               </font>
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Reminding the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of its obligations to uphold human rights, 430 civil society and Indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries across the globe today called on the FAO Council to rescind the agency&amp;rsquo;s partnership with CropLife International, the industry association representing the world&amp;rsquo;s largest pesticide manufacturers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Ahead of the FAO Council&amp;rsquo;s 170th session that begins on June 13, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) submitted to members of the Council a &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/Letter%20to%20FAO.pdf&quot;&gt;letter&lt;/a&gt; co-sponsored by 10 other global networks, and on behalf of the 430 organizations, urging it to take immediate action in the Council session. &amp;nbsp;This demand builds on the ongoing concerns expressed by civil society and Indigenous People&amp;rsquo;s organizations, and on recommendations made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food during the Human Rights Council&amp;rsquo;s 49th session, namely: &amp;ldquo;to review the agreement with CropLife International with an eye to human rights concerns&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;to consider directing the Director-General of FAO to rescind the agreement.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In the letter, the 430 organizations expressed concerns about how CropLife member companies (BASF, Bayer Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience, Sumitomo, FMC and Syngenta) have &amp;ldquo;interfered in national policy and exert enormous pressure on governments that take measures to protect people and the environment from pesticide harms.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In October 2020, the FAO signed a Letter of Intent with CropLife to cooperate on a broad range of areas, as part of the agency&amp;rsquo;s Private Sector Engagement Strategy. &amp;ldquo;FAO deepening its collaboration with CropLife International directly counters any efforts toward progressively banning Highly Hazardous Pesticides, as recommended for consideration by the FAO Council as early as 2006,&amp;rdquo; the letter stated.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The organizations also underscored that the partnership, which has been in effect for over a year and a half, &amp;ldquo;undercuts the FAO and several Member States&amp;rsquo; support for agroecology, an approach that offers viable and sustainable proposals for generating ecologically-based food and farming systems without the use of toxic pesticides.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The letter pointed out that FAO&amp;rsquo;s own due diligence process indicates that companies involved in human rights abuses can be excluded from potential partners. The organizations assert that the &amp;ldquo;use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations to: Health; Clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Safe working conditions; Adequate food; safe and clean water and sanitation; A dignified life; and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, women, children, workers, and peasants and other people working in rural areas.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In addition, a briefing report entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Addressing the Conflict of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Interest and Incompatibility of FAO&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Partnership with CropLife International&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;--detailing the necessity to end what civil society and Indigenous peoples call the &amp;ldquo;Toxic Alliance&amp;rdquo; between the FAO and the pesticide industry&amp;ndash;was submitted to the FAO Council by 11 global organizations spearheading the campaign.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;A separate &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf&quot;&gt;briefing report&lt;/a&gt; entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry&amp;#39;s Deepening&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Influence on Global Food Governance&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;rdquo; with the partnership with CropLife as among the case studies, was also submitted to the FAO and Member States in time for the FAO Council session.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Links to letter to the FAO Council&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;English: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
Spanish: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
French: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Link to the &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Briefing Report&lt;/a&gt; to FAO Member States: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Kindly &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access the press release dated June 9, 2022.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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The organizations assert that the &amp;ldquo;use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations to: Health; Clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Safe working conditions; Adequate food; safe and clean water and sanitation; A dignified life; and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, women, children, workers, and peasants and other people working in rural areas.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In addition, a briefing report entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot; title=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Addressing the Conflict of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot; title=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Interest and Incompatibility of FAO&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot; title=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Partnership with CropLife International&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;--detailing the necessity to end what civil society and Indigenous peoples call the &amp;ldquo;Toxic Alliance&amp;rdquo; between the FAO and the pesticide industry&amp;ndash;was submitted to the FAO Council by 11 global organizations spearheading the campaign.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;A separate &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf&quot; title=&quot;/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf&quot;&gt;briefing report&lt;/a&gt; entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot; title=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry&amp;#39;s Deepening&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot; title=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Influence on Global Food Governance&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;rdquo; with the partnership with CropLife as among the case studies, was also submitted to the FAO and Member States in time for the FAO Council session.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Links to letter to the FAO Council&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;English: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&quot; title=&quot;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Spanish: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022&quot; title=&quot;https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;French: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&quot; title=&quot;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Link to the &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot; title=&quot;/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Briefing Report&lt;/a&gt; to FAO Member States: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&quot; title=&quot;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Kindly &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit&quot; title=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access the press release dated June 9, 2022.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
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	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-Press release by Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International and&amp;nbsp;430 civil society and indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries dated June 9, 2022&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Reminding the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of its obligations to uphold human rights, 430 civil society and Indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries across the globe today called on the FAO Council to rescind the agency&amp;rsquo;s partnership with CropLife International, the industry association representing the world&amp;rsquo;s largest pesticide manufacturers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Ahead of the FAO Council&amp;rsquo;s 170th session that begins on June 13, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) submitted to members of the Council a &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/Letter%20to%20FAO.pdf&quot;&gt;letter&lt;/a&gt; co-sponsored by 10 other global networks, and on behalf of the 430 organizations, urging it to take immediate action in the Council session. &amp;nbsp;This demand builds on the ongoing concerns expressed by civil society and Indigenous People&amp;rsquo;s organizations, and on recommendations made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food during the Human Rights Council&amp;rsquo;s 49th session, namely: &amp;ldquo;to review the agreement with CropLife International with an eye to human rights concerns&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;to consider directing the Director-General of FAO to rescind the agreement.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In the letter, the 430 organizations expressed concerns about how CropLife member companies (BASF, Bayer Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience, Sumitomo, FMC and Syngenta) have &amp;ldquo;interfered in national policy and exert enormous pressure on governments that take measures to protect people and the environment from pesticide harms.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In October 2020, the FAO signed a Letter of Intent with CropLife to cooperate on a broad range of areas, as part of the agency&amp;rsquo;s Private Sector Engagement Strategy. &amp;ldquo;FAO deepening its collaboration with CropLife International directly counters any efforts toward progressively banning Highly Hazardous Pesticides, as recommended for consideration by the FAO Council as early as 2006,&amp;rdquo; the letter stated.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The organizations also underscored that the partnership, which has been in effect for over a year and a half, &amp;ldquo;undercuts the FAO and several Member States&amp;rsquo; support for agroecology, an approach that offers viable and sustainable proposals for generating ecologically-based food and farming systems without the use of toxic pesticides.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The letter pointed out that FAO&amp;rsquo;s own due diligence process indicates that companies involved in human rights abuses can be excluded from potential partners. The organizations assert that the &amp;ldquo;use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations to: Health; Clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Safe working conditions; Adequate food; safe and clean water and sanitation; A dignified life; and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, women, children, workers, and peasants and other people working in rural areas.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In addition, a briefing report entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Addressing the Conflict of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Interest and Incompatibility of FAO&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Partnership with CropLife International&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;--detailing the necessity to end what civil society and Indigenous peoples call the &amp;ldquo;Toxic Alliance&amp;rdquo; between the FAO and the pesticide industry&amp;ndash;was submitted to the FAO Council by 11 global organizations spearheading the campaign.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;A separate &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf&quot;&gt;briefing report&lt;/a&gt; entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry&amp;#39;s Deepening&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Influence on Global Food Governance&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;rdquo; with the partnership with CropLife as among the case studies, was also submitted to the FAO and Member States in time for the FAO Council session.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Links to letter to the FAO Council&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;English: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
Spanish: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
French: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Link to the &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Briefing Report&lt;/a&gt; to FAO Member States: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Kindly &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access the press release dated June 9, 2022.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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                <p style="text-align:justify">-Press release by Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International and&nbsp;430 civil society and indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries dated June 9, 2022&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Reminding the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of its obligations to uphold human rights, 430 civil society and Indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries across the globe today called on the FAO Council to rescind the agency&rsquo;s partnership with CropLife International, the industry association representing the world&rsquo;s largest pesticide manufacturers.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Ahead of the FAO Council&rsquo;s 170th session that begins on June 13, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) submitted to members of the Council a <a href="/upload/files/Letter%20to%20FAO.pdf" title="/upload/files/Letter%20to%20FAO.pdf">letter</a> co-sponsored by 10 other global networks, and on behalf of the 430 organizations, urging it to take immediate action in the Council session. &nbsp;This demand builds on the ongoing concerns expressed by civil society and Indigenous People&rsquo;s organizations, and on recommendations made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food during the Human Rights Council&rsquo;s 49th session, namely: &ldquo;to review the agreement with CropLife International with an eye to human rights concerns&rdquo; and &ldquo;to consider directing the Director-General of FAO to rescind the agreement.&quot;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In the letter, the 430 organizations expressed concerns about how CropLife member companies (BASF, Bayer Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience, Sumitomo, FMC and Syngenta) have &ldquo;interfered in national policy and exert enormous pressure on governments that take measures to protect people and the environment from pesticide harms.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In October 2020, the FAO signed a Letter of Intent with CropLife to cooperate on a broad range of areas, as part of the agency&rsquo;s Private Sector Engagement Strategy. &ldquo;FAO deepening its collaboration with CropLife International directly counters any efforts toward progressively banning Highly Hazardous Pesticides, as recommended for consideration by the FAO Council as early as 2006,&rdquo; the letter stated.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">The organizations also underscored that the partnership, which has been in effect for over a year and a half, &ldquo;undercuts the FAO and several Member States&rsquo; support for agroecology, an approach that offers viable and sustainable proposals for generating ecologically-based food and farming systems without the use of toxic pesticides.&rdquo;</p><p style="text-align:justify">The letter pointed out that FAO&rsquo;s own due diligence process indicates that companies involved in human rights abuses can be excluded from potential partners. The organizations assert that the &ldquo;use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations to: Health; Clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Safe working conditions; Adequate food; safe and clean water and sanitation; A dignified life; and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, women, children, workers, and peasants and other people working in rural areas.&rdquo;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In addition, a briefing report entitled &ldquo;<a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Addressing the Conflict of</a> <a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Interest and Incompatibility of FAO&rsquo;s</a> <a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Partnership with CropLife International</a>&rdquo;--detailing the necessity to end what civil society and Indigenous peoples call the &ldquo;Toxic Alliance&rdquo; between the FAO and the pesticide industry&ndash;was submitted to the FAO Council by 11 global organizations spearheading the campaign.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">A separate <a href="/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf" title="/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf">briefing report</a> entitled &ldquo;<a href="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972" title="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972">Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry&#39;s Deepening</a> <a href="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972" title="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972">Influence on Global Food Governance</a>,&rdquo; with the partnership with CropLife as among the case studies, was also submitted to the FAO and Member States in time for the FAO Council session.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Links to letter to the FAO Council</p><p style="text-align:justify">English: <a href="https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022" title="https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022">https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022</a>&nbsp;<br />Spanish: <a href="https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022" title="https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022">https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022</a>&nbsp;<br />French: <a href="https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022" title="https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022">https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022</a>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Link to the <a href="/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Briefing Report</a> to FAO Member States: <a href="https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief" title="https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief">https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief</a> &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Kindly <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit" title="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit">click here</a> to access the press release dated June 9, 2022.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak</strong></p>               </font>
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Reminding the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of its obligations to uphold human rights, 430 civil society and Indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries across the globe today called on the FAO Council to rescind the agency&amp;rsquo;s partnership with CropLife International, the industry association representing the world&amp;rsquo;s largest pesticide manufacturers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Ahead of the FAO Council&amp;rsquo;s 170th session that begins on June 13, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) submitted to members of the Council a &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/Letter%20to%20FAO.pdf&quot;&gt;letter&lt;/a&gt; co-sponsored by 10 other global networks, and on behalf of the 430 organizations, urging it to take immediate action in the Council session. &amp;nbsp;This demand builds on the ongoing concerns expressed by civil society and Indigenous People&amp;rsquo;s organizations, and on recommendations made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food during the Human Rights Council&amp;rsquo;s 49th session, namely: &amp;ldquo;to review the agreement with CropLife International with an eye to human rights concerns&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;to consider directing the Director-General of FAO to rescind the agreement.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In the letter, the 430 organizations expressed concerns about how CropLife member companies (BASF, Bayer Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience, Sumitomo, FMC and Syngenta) have &amp;ldquo;interfered in national policy and exert enormous pressure on governments that take measures to protect people and the environment from pesticide harms.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In October 2020, the FAO signed a Letter of Intent with CropLife to cooperate on a broad range of areas, as part of the agency&amp;rsquo;s Private Sector Engagement Strategy. &amp;ldquo;FAO deepening its collaboration with CropLife International directly counters any efforts toward progressively banning Highly Hazardous Pesticides, as recommended for consideration by the FAO Council as early as 2006,&amp;rdquo; the letter stated.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The organizations also underscored that the partnership, which has been in effect for over a year and a half, &amp;ldquo;undercuts the FAO and several Member States&amp;rsquo; support for agroecology, an approach that offers viable and sustainable proposals for generating ecologically-based food and farming systems without the use of toxic pesticides.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The letter pointed out that FAO&amp;rsquo;s own due diligence process indicates that companies involved in human rights abuses can be excluded from potential partners. The organizations assert that the &amp;ldquo;use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations to: Health; Clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Safe working conditions; Adequate food; safe and clean water and sanitation; A dignified life; and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, women, children, workers, and peasants and other people working in rural areas.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In addition, a briefing report entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Addressing the Conflict of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Interest and Incompatibility of FAO&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Partnership with CropLife International&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;--detailing the necessity to end what civil society and Indigenous peoples call the &amp;ldquo;Toxic Alliance&amp;rdquo; between the FAO and the pesticide industry&amp;ndash;was submitted to the FAO Council by 11 global organizations spearheading the campaign.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;A separate &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf&quot;&gt;briefing report&lt;/a&gt; entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry&amp;#39;s Deepening&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Influence on Global Food Governance&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;rdquo; with the partnership with CropLife as among the case studies, was also submitted to the FAO and Member States in time for the FAO Council session.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Links to letter to the FAO Council&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;English: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
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French: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Link to the &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Briefing Report&lt;/a&gt; to FAO Member States: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Kindly &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access the press release dated June 9, 2022.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Reminding the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of its obligations to uphold human rights, 430 civil society and Indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries across the globe today called on the FAO Council to rescind the agency&amp;rsquo;s partnership with CropLife International, the industry association representing the world&amp;rsquo;s largest pesticide manufacturers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Ahead of the FAO Council&amp;rsquo;s 170th session that begins on June 13, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) submitted to members of the Council a &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/Letter%20to%20FAO.pdf&quot;&gt;letter&lt;/a&gt; co-sponsored by 10 other global networks, and on behalf of the 430 organizations, urging it to take immediate action in the Council session. &amp;nbsp;This demand builds on the ongoing concerns expressed by civil society and Indigenous People&amp;rsquo;s organizations, and on recommendations made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food during the Human Rights Council&amp;rsquo;s 49th session, namely: &amp;ldquo;to review the agreement with CropLife International with an eye to human rights concerns&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;to consider directing the Director-General of FAO to rescind the agreement.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In the letter, the 430 organizations expressed concerns about how CropLife member companies (BASF, Bayer Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience, Sumitomo, FMC and Syngenta) have &amp;ldquo;interfered in national policy and exert enormous pressure on governments that take measures to protect people and the environment from pesticide harms.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In October 2020, the FAO signed a Letter of Intent with CropLife to cooperate on a broad range of areas, as part of the agency&amp;rsquo;s Private Sector Engagement Strategy. &amp;ldquo;FAO deepening its collaboration with CropLife International directly counters any efforts toward progressively banning Highly Hazardous Pesticides, as recommended for consideration by the FAO Council as early as 2006,&amp;rdquo; the letter stated.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The organizations also underscored that the partnership, which has been in effect for over a year and a half, &amp;ldquo;undercuts the FAO and several Member States&amp;rsquo; support for agroecology, an approach that offers viable and sustainable proposals for generating ecologically-based food and farming systems without the use of toxic pesticides.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The letter pointed out that FAO&amp;rsquo;s own due diligence process indicates that companies involved in human rights abuses can be excluded from potential partners. The organizations assert that the &amp;ldquo;use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations to: Health; Clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Safe working conditions; Adequate food; safe and clean water and sanitation; A dignified life; and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, women, children, workers, and peasants and other people working in rural areas.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In addition, a briefing report entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Addressing the Conflict of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Interest and Incompatibility of FAO&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Partnership with CropLife International&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;--detailing the necessity to end what civil society and Indigenous peoples call the &amp;ldquo;Toxic Alliance&amp;rdquo; between the FAO and the pesticide industry&amp;ndash;was submitted to the FAO Council by 11 global organizations spearheading the campaign.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;A separate &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf&quot;&gt;briefing report&lt;/a&gt; entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry&amp;#39;s Deepening&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Influence on Global Food Governance&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;rdquo; with the partnership with CropLife as among the case studies, was also submitted to the FAO and Member States in time for the FAO Council session.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Links to letter to the FAO Council&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;English: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
Spanish: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;
French: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Link to the &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Briefing Report&lt;/a&gt; to FAO Member States: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Kindly &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access the press release dated June 9, 2022.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

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The organizations assert that the &amp;ldquo;use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations to: Health; Clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Safe working conditions; Adequate food; safe and clean water and sanitation; A dignified life; and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, women, children, workers, and peasants and other people working in rural areas.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;In addition, a briefing report entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot; title=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Addressing the Conflict of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot; title=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Interest and Incompatibility of FAO&amp;rsquo;s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot; title=&quot;https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Partnership with CropLife International&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;--detailing the necessity to end what civil society and Indigenous peoples call the &amp;ldquo;Toxic Alliance&amp;rdquo; between the FAO and the pesticide industry&amp;ndash;was submitted to the FAO Council by 11 global organizations spearheading the campaign.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;A separate &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf&quot; title=&quot;/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf&quot;&gt;briefing report&lt;/a&gt; entitled &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot; title=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry&amp;#39;s Deepening&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot; title=&quot;https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972&quot;&gt;Influence on Global Food Governance&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;rdquo; with the partnership with CropLife as among the case studies, was also submitted to the FAO and Member States in time for the FAO Council session.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Links to letter to the FAO Council&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;English: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&quot; title=&quot;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Spanish: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022&quot; title=&quot;https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;French: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&quot; title=&quot;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Link to the &lt;a href=&quot;/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot; title=&quot;/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf&quot;&gt;Briefing Report&lt;/a&gt; to FAO Member States: &lt;a href=&quot;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&quot; title=&quot;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&quot;&gt;https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Kindly &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit&quot; title=&quot;https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to access the press release dated June 9, 2022.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
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                <p style="text-align:justify">-Press release by Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International and&nbsp;430 civil society and indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries dated June 9, 2022&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Reminding the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of its obligations to uphold human rights, 430 civil society and Indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries across the globe today called on the FAO Council to rescind the agency&rsquo;s partnership with CropLife International, the industry association representing the world&rsquo;s largest pesticide manufacturers.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Ahead of the FAO Council&rsquo;s 170th session that begins on June 13, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) submitted to members of the Council a <a href="/upload/files/Letter%20to%20FAO.pdf" title="/upload/files/Letter%20to%20FAO.pdf">letter</a> co-sponsored by 10 other global networks, and on behalf of the 430 organizations, urging it to take immediate action in the Council session. &nbsp;This demand builds on the ongoing concerns expressed by civil society and Indigenous People&rsquo;s organizations, and on recommendations made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food during the Human Rights Council&rsquo;s 49th session, namely: &ldquo;to review the agreement with CropLife International with an eye to human rights concerns&rdquo; and &ldquo;to consider directing the Director-General of FAO to rescind the agreement.&quot;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In the letter, the 430 organizations expressed concerns about how CropLife member companies (BASF, Bayer Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience, Sumitomo, FMC and Syngenta) have &ldquo;interfered in national policy and exert enormous pressure on governments that take measures to protect people and the environment from pesticide harms.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In October 2020, the FAO signed a Letter of Intent with CropLife to cooperate on a broad range of areas, as part of the agency&rsquo;s Private Sector Engagement Strategy. &ldquo;FAO deepening its collaboration with CropLife International directly counters any efforts toward progressively banning Highly Hazardous Pesticides, as recommended for consideration by the FAO Council as early as 2006,&rdquo; the letter stated.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">The organizations also underscored that the partnership, which has been in effect for over a year and a half, &ldquo;undercuts the FAO and several Member States&rsquo; support for agroecology, an approach that offers viable and sustainable proposals for generating ecologically-based food and farming systems without the use of toxic pesticides.&rdquo;</p><p style="text-align:justify">The letter pointed out that FAO&rsquo;s own due diligence process indicates that companies involved in human rights abuses can be excluded from potential partners. The organizations assert that the &ldquo;use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations to: Health; Clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Safe working conditions; Adequate food; safe and clean water and sanitation; A dignified life; and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, women, children, workers, and peasants and other people working in rural areas.&rdquo;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In addition, a briefing report entitled &ldquo;<a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Addressing the Conflict of</a> <a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Interest and Incompatibility of FAO&rsquo;s</a> <a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Partnership with CropLife International</a>&rdquo;--detailing the necessity to end what civil society and Indigenous peoples call the &ldquo;Toxic Alliance&rdquo; between the FAO and the pesticide industry&ndash;was submitted to the FAO Council by 11 global organizations spearheading the campaign.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">A separate <a href="/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf" title="/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf">briefing report</a> entitled &ldquo;<a href="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972" title="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972">Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry&#39;s Deepening</a> <a href="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972" title="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972">Influence on Global Food Governance</a>,&rdquo; with the partnership with CropLife as among the case studies, was also submitted to the FAO and Member States in time for the FAO Council session.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Links to letter to the FAO Council</p><p style="text-align:justify">English: <a href="https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022" title="https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022">https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022</a>&nbsp;<br />Spanish: <a href="https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022" title="https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022">https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022</a>&nbsp;<br />French: <a href="https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022" title="https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022">https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022</a>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Link to the <a href="/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Briefing Report</a> to FAO Member States: <a href="https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief" title="https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief">https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief</a> &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Kindly <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit" title="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit">click here</a> to access the press release dated June 9, 2022.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak</strong></p>               </font>
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<p style="text-align:justify">Reminding the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of its obligations to uphold human rights, 430 civil society and Indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries across the globe today called on the FAO Council to rescind the agency&rsquo;s partnership with CropLife International, the industry association representing the world&rsquo;s largest pesticide manufacturers.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Ahead of the FAO Council&rsquo;s 170th session that begins on June 13, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) submitted to members of the Council a <a href="/upload/files/Letter%20to%20FAO.pdf">letter</a> co-sponsored by 10 other global networks, and on behalf of the 430 organizations, urging it to take immediate action in the Council session. &nbsp;This demand builds on the ongoing concerns expressed by civil society and Indigenous People&rsquo;s organizations, and on recommendations made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food during the Human Rights Council&rsquo;s 49th session, namely: &ldquo;to review the agreement with CropLife International with an eye to human rights concerns&rdquo; and &ldquo;to consider directing the Director-General of FAO to rescind the agreement.&quot;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">In the letter, the 430 organizations expressed concerns about how CropLife member companies (BASF, Bayer Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience, Sumitomo, FMC and Syngenta) have &ldquo;interfered in national policy and exert enormous pressure on governments that take measures to protect people and the environment from pesticide harms.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">In October 2020, the FAO signed a Letter of Intent with CropLife to cooperate on a broad range of areas, as part of the agency&rsquo;s Private Sector Engagement Strategy. &ldquo;FAO deepening its collaboration with CropLife International directly counters any efforts toward progressively banning Highly Hazardous Pesticides, as recommended for consideration by the FAO Council as early as 2006,&rdquo; the letter stated.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The organizations also underscored that the partnership, which has been in effect for over a year and a half, &ldquo;undercuts the FAO and several Member States&rsquo; support for agroecology, an approach that offers viable and sustainable proposals for generating ecologically-based food and farming systems without the use of toxic pesticides.&rdquo;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The letter pointed out that FAO&rsquo;s own due diligence process indicates that companies involved in human rights abuses can be excluded from potential partners. The organizations assert that the &ldquo;use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations to: Health; Clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Safe working conditions; Adequate food; safe and clean water and sanitation; A dignified life; and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, women, children, workers, and peasants and other people working in rural areas.&rdquo;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">In addition, a briefing report entitled &ldquo;<a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Addressing the Conflict of</a> <a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Interest and Incompatibility of FAO&rsquo;s</a> <a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Partnership with CropLife International</a>&rdquo;--detailing the necessity to end what civil society and Indigenous peoples call the &ldquo;Toxic Alliance&rdquo; between the FAO and the pesticide industry&ndash;was submitted to the FAO Council by 11 global organizations spearheading the campaign.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">A separate <a href="/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf">briefing report</a> entitled &ldquo;<a href="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972">Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry&#39;s Deepening</a> <a href="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972">Influence on Global Food Governance</a>,&rdquo; with the partnership with CropLife as among the case studies, was also submitted to the FAO and Member States in time for the FAO Council session.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Links to letter to the FAO Council</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">English: <a href="https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022">https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022</a>&nbsp;<br />
Spanish: <a href="https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022">https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022</a>&nbsp;<br />
French: <a href="https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022">https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022</a>&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Link to the <a href="/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Briefing Report</a> to FAO Member States: <a href="https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief">https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief</a> &nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Kindly <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit">click here</a> to access the press release dated June 9, 2022.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak</strong></p>
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The organizations assert that the &ldquo;use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations to: Health; Clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Safe working conditions; Adequate food; safe and clean water and sanitation; A dignified life; and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, women, children, workers, and peasants and other people working in rural areas.&rdquo;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In addition, a briefing report entitled &ldquo;<a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Addressing the Conflict of</a> <a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Interest and Incompatibility of FAO&rsquo;s</a> <a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Partnership with CropLife International</a>&rdquo;--detailing the necessity to end what civil society and Indigenous peoples call the &ldquo;Toxic Alliance&rdquo; between the FAO and the pesticide industry&ndash;was submitted to the FAO Council by 11 global organizations spearheading the campaign.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">A separate <a href="/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf" title="/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf">briefing report</a> entitled &ldquo;<a href="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972" title="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972">Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry&#39;s Deepening</a> <a href="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972" title="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972">Influence on Global Food Governance</a>,&rdquo; with the partnership with CropLife as among the case studies, was also submitted to the FAO and Member States in time for the FAO Council session.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Links to letter to the FAO Council</p><p style="text-align:justify">English: <a href="https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022" title="https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022">https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022</a>&nbsp;<br />Spanish: <a href="https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022" title="https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022">https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022</a>&nbsp;<br />French: <a href="https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022" title="https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022">https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022</a>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Link to the <a href="/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Briefing Report</a> to FAO Member States: <a href="https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief" title="https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief">https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief</a> &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Kindly <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit" title="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit">click here</a> to access the press release dated June 9, 2022.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak</strong></p>',
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<p style="text-align:justify">Reminding the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of its obligations to uphold human rights, 430 civil society and Indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries across the globe today called on the FAO Council to rescind the agency&rsquo;s partnership with CropLife International, the industry association representing the world&rsquo;s largest pesticide manufacturers.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Ahead of the FAO Council&rsquo;s 170th session that begins on June 13, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) submitted to members of the Council a <a href="/upload/files/Letter%20to%20FAO.pdf">letter</a> co-sponsored by 10 other global networks, and on behalf of the 430 organizations, urging it to take immediate action in the Council session. &nbsp;This demand builds on the ongoing concerns expressed by civil society and Indigenous People&rsquo;s organizations, and on recommendations made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food during the Human Rights Council&rsquo;s 49th session, namely: &ldquo;to review the agreement with CropLife International with an eye to human rights concerns&rdquo; and &ldquo;to consider directing the Director-General of FAO to rescind the agreement.&quot;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">In the letter, the 430 organizations expressed concerns about how CropLife member companies (BASF, Bayer Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience, Sumitomo, FMC and Syngenta) have &ldquo;interfered in national policy and exert enormous pressure on governments that take measures to protect people and the environment from pesticide harms.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">In October 2020, the FAO signed a Letter of Intent with CropLife to cooperate on a broad range of areas, as part of the agency&rsquo;s Private Sector Engagement Strategy. &ldquo;FAO deepening its collaboration with CropLife International directly counters any efforts toward progressively banning Highly Hazardous Pesticides, as recommended for consideration by the FAO Council as early as 2006,&rdquo; the letter stated.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The organizations also underscored that the partnership, which has been in effect for over a year and a half, &ldquo;undercuts the FAO and several Member States&rsquo; support for agroecology, an approach that offers viable and sustainable proposals for generating ecologically-based food and farming systems without the use of toxic pesticides.&rdquo;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The letter pointed out that FAO&rsquo;s own due diligence process indicates that companies involved in human rights abuses can be excluded from potential partners. The organizations assert that the &ldquo;use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations to: Health; Clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Safe working conditions; Adequate food; safe and clean water and sanitation; A dignified life; and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, women, children, workers, and peasants and other people working in rural areas.&rdquo;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">In addition, a briefing report entitled &ldquo;<a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Addressing the Conflict of</a> <a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Interest and Incompatibility of FAO&rsquo;s</a> <a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Partnership with CropLife International</a>&rdquo;--detailing the necessity to end what civil society and Indigenous peoples call the &ldquo;Toxic Alliance&rdquo; between the FAO and the pesticide industry&ndash;was submitted to the FAO Council by 11 global organizations spearheading the campaign.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">A separate <a href="/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf">briefing report</a> entitled &ldquo;<a href="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972">Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry&#39;s Deepening</a> <a href="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972">Influence on Global Food Governance</a>,&rdquo; with the partnership with CropLife as among the case studies, was also submitted to the FAO and Member States in time for the FAO Council session.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Links to letter to the FAO Council</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">English: <a href="https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022">https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022</a>&nbsp;<br />
Spanish: <a href="https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022">https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022</a>&nbsp;<br />
French: <a href="https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022">https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022</a>&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Link to the <a href="/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Briefing Report</a> to FAO Member States: <a href="https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief">https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief</a> &nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Kindly <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit">click here</a> to access the press release dated June 9, 2022.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak</strong></p>
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Reminding the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of its obligations to uphold human rights, 430 civil society and...'
$disp = '<p style="text-align:justify">-Press release by Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International and&nbsp;430 civil society and indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries dated June 9, 2022&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Reminding the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of its obligations to uphold human rights, 430 civil society and Indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries across the globe today called on the FAO Council to rescind the agency&rsquo;s partnership with CropLife International, the industry association representing the world&rsquo;s largest pesticide manufacturers.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Ahead of the FAO Council&rsquo;s 170th session that begins on June 13, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) submitted to members of the Council a <a href="/upload/files/Letter%20to%20FAO.pdf" title="/upload/files/Letter%20to%20FAO.pdf">letter</a> co-sponsored by 10 other global networks, and on behalf of the 430 organizations, urging it to take immediate action in the Council session. &nbsp;This demand builds on the ongoing concerns expressed by civil society and Indigenous People&rsquo;s organizations, and on recommendations made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food during the Human Rights Council&rsquo;s 49th session, namely: &ldquo;to review the agreement with CropLife International with an eye to human rights concerns&rdquo; and &ldquo;to consider directing the Director-General of FAO to rescind the agreement.&quot;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In the letter, the 430 organizations expressed concerns about how CropLife member companies (BASF, Bayer Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience, Sumitomo, FMC and Syngenta) have &ldquo;interfered in national policy and exert enormous pressure on governments that take measures to protect people and the environment from pesticide harms.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In October 2020, the FAO signed a Letter of Intent with CropLife to cooperate on a broad range of areas, as part of the agency&rsquo;s Private Sector Engagement Strategy. &ldquo;FAO deepening its collaboration with CropLife International directly counters any efforts toward progressively banning Highly Hazardous Pesticides, as recommended for consideration by the FAO Council as early as 2006,&rdquo; the letter stated.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">The organizations also underscored that the partnership, which has been in effect for over a year and a half, &ldquo;undercuts the FAO and several Member States&rsquo; support for agroecology, an approach that offers viable and sustainable proposals for generating ecologically-based food and farming systems without the use of toxic pesticides.&rdquo;</p><p style="text-align:justify">The letter pointed out that FAO&rsquo;s own due diligence process indicates that companies involved in human rights abuses can be excluded from potential partners. The organizations assert that the &ldquo;use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations to: Health; Clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Safe working conditions; Adequate food; safe and clean water and sanitation; A dignified life; and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, women, children, workers, and peasants and other people working in rural areas.&rdquo;</p><p style="text-align:justify">In addition, a briefing report entitled &ldquo;<a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Addressing the Conflict of</a> <a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Interest and Incompatibility of FAO&rsquo;s</a> <a href="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="https://pan-international.org/wp-content/uploads/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Partnership with CropLife International</a>&rdquo;--detailing the necessity to end what civil society and Indigenous peoples call the &ldquo;Toxic Alliance&rdquo; between the FAO and the pesticide industry&ndash;was submitted to the FAO Council by 11 global organizations spearheading the campaign.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">A separate <a href="/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf" title="/upload/files/CorporateCaptureoftheFAO-EN.pdf">briefing report</a> entitled &ldquo;<a href="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972" title="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972">Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry&#39;s Deepening</a> <a href="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972" title="https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/report-corporate-capture-of-fao-industrys-deepening-influence-on-global-food-governance-2972">Influence on Global Food Governance</a>,&rdquo; with the partnership with CropLife as among the case studies, was also submitted to the FAO and Member States in time for the FAO Council session.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Links to letter to the FAO Council</p><p style="text-align:justify">English: <a href="https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022" title="https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022">https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022</a>&nbsp;<br />Spanish: <a href="https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022" title="https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022">https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022</a>&nbsp;<br />French: <a href="https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022" title="https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022">https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022</a>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Link to the <a href="/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf" title="/upload/files/CropLife-Conflict-of-Interest-Briefing-to-FAO-Member-States-PAN-and-Partners.pdf">Briefing Report</a> to FAO Member States: <a href="https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief" title="https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief">https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief</a> &nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">Kindly <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit" title="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vk0gD73FjV-N26vOuCEzad6k5WfOu807A8tvB0pwvb8/edit">click here</a> to access the press release dated June 9, 2022.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak</strong></p>'
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430 civil society and Indigenous Peoples groups to FAO Council: End partnership with pesticide industry

-Press release by Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International and 430 civil society and indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries dated June 9, 2022  Reminding the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of its obligations to uphold human rights, 430 civil society and Indigenous peoples organizations from 69 countries across the globe today called on the FAO Council to rescind the agency’s partnership with CropLife International, the industry association representing the world’s largest pesticide manufacturers. Ahead of the FAO Council’s 170th session that begins on June 13, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) submitted to members of the Council a letter co-sponsored by 10 other global networks, and on behalf of the 430 organizations, urging it to take immediate action in the Council session.  This demand builds on the ongoing concerns expressed by civil society and Indigenous People’s organizations, and on recommendations made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food during the Human Rights Council’s 49th session, namely: “to review the agreement with CropLife International with an eye to human rights concerns” and “to consider directing the Director-General of FAO to rescind the agreement." In the letter, the 430 organizations expressed concerns about how CropLife member companies (BASF, Bayer Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience, Sumitomo, FMC and Syngenta) have “interfered in national policy and exert enormous pressure on governments that take measures to protect people and the environment from pesticide harms.”  In October 2020, the FAO signed a Letter of Intent with CropLife to cooperate on a broad range of areas, as part of the agency’s Private Sector Engagement Strategy. “FAO deepening its collaboration with CropLife International directly counters any efforts toward progressively banning Highly Hazardous Pesticides, as recommended for consideration by the FAO Council as early as 2006,” the letter stated.  The organizations also underscored that the partnership, which has been in effect for over a year and a half, “undercuts the FAO and several Member States’ support for agroecology, an approach that offers viable and sustainable proposals for generating ecologically-based food and farming systems without the use of toxic pesticides.” The letter pointed out that FAO’s own due diligence process indicates that companies involved in human rights abuses can be excluded from potential partners. The organizations assert that the “use of hazardous pesticides is inconsistent with the rights protected by the United Nations to: Health; Clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Safe working conditions; Adequate food; safe and clean water and sanitation; A dignified life; and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, women, children, workers, and peasants and other people working in rural areas.” In addition, a briefing report entitled “Addressing the Conflict of Interest and Incompatibility of FAO’s Partnership with CropLife International”--detailing the necessity to end what civil society and Indigenous peoples call the “Toxic Alliance” between the FAO and the pesticide industry–was submitted to the FAO Council by 11 global organizations spearheading the campaign.  A separate briefing report entitled “Corporate Capture of FAO: Industry's Deepening Influence on Global Food Governance,” with the partnership with CropLife as among the case studies, was also submitted to the FAO and Member States in time for the FAO Council session. Links to letter to the FAO Council English: https://bit.ly/LetterFAO2022  Spanish: https://bit.ly/CartaFAO2022  French: https://bit.ly/LettreFAO2022  Link to the Briefing Report to FAO Member States: https://bit.ly/ToxicAllianceBrief   Kindly click here to access the press release dated June 9, 2022.    Image Courtesy: Inclusive Media for Change/ Shambhu Ghatak