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Article

21 Dec 2011

Author:
Berne Declaration and the Center for Constitutional and Human Rights

[DOC] Response by the Berne Declaration and the Center for Constitutional and Human Rights to Syngenta’s response to the negative human rights impacts of Paraquat

All in all, Syngenta’s response shows once again that it jumps to conclusions about the safety of Paraquat, before even having analyzed the allegations referred to in the legal opinion. Syngenta should first assess the human rights impacts and then draw conclusions, not the other way around...Once again Syngenta mentions the number of farmers trained in their stewardship programs. However the legal opinion explains why it is not the number of farmers trained that is significant, but rather how effective the training is...We believe that this behavior is not in line with the Guiding Principles (GP 21). [The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Syngenta to respond to this rejoinder. Syngenta said it had no further comments]

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