meeting together in Dehradun<\/a>, India as the \u00a8Diverse Women for Diversity\u00a8, representing 17 nationalities and multiple cultures, welcome and support the decision of the Mexican government through the Presidential Decree to phase out the use of GMOs and glyphosate.<\/p>\nWe are outraged and dismayed that the Government of the United States is trying to pressure the government of Mexico to impose GMO transgenic Corn in violation of Mexico\u00b4s sovereignty and its sovereign rights enshrined in international agreements.<\/p>\n
We as diverse women of the world working to protect Earth\u2019s biodiversity and resisting the imposition of GMOs which destroy our biodiversity and our food sovereignty, support the Mexican government, condemn the bullying by the United States, the biotechnology industry and its lobbies, to force GMOs on Mexico and the world, contrary to, and in violation of \u00a0 the Convention of Biological Diversity and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety which enshrine sovereignty and the precautionary principle.<\/p>\n
We also call on the ask the European Commission to stand by the decisions they have made under the precautionary principle.<\/p>\n
We call on the government to:<\/p>\n
\n- Stop this strategy of pressuring the Government of Mexico to accept GMO corn. Mexico is the genetic reservoir of maize globally, which we must preserve.<\/li>\n
- Recognize and accept the policy decisions democratically adopted by a sovereign country.<\/li>\n
- Acknowledge that the policies of Mexico are based on solid international scientific evidence demonstrating the harmful impacts of GMOs and glyphosate on human and environmental health.<\/li>\n
- Recognize that the biodiversity of maize in Mexico is essential to food sovereignty not only in Mexico, but globally. No GMO should be introduced into any country, especially if it is a centre of diversity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
We as diverse women were born as a movement in the defense of biocultural diversity and resist GMOs everywhere since GMOs, pesticides and the industrial food system are the single biggest reason for the disappearance of biodiversity. We will continue our struggle in defense of life, diversity and freedom.<\/p>\n
8th March 2023. Dehradun, India<\/p>\n
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