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GMO international groups
Australia/New Zealand | Belgium | India | Netherlands | South Africa | Spain | UK
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
GeneEthics Network
Level 1, 60 Leicester St, Carlton 3053 Australia
Tel: +61 3 9347 4500
Email: info@geneethics.org Website: www.geneethics.org
A national network of Australians resisting gene technology. GeneEthics aims to put ethics into genetics, and is campaigning for a minimum five-year freeze on GMO releases, GE foods, and life patents.
Greenpeace Australia Pacific GE campaign
Email: jeremy.tager@au.greenpeace.org
Website: www.greenpeace.org.au/truefood/index2.html
Greenpeace Australia Pacific believe that GE organisms should not be released into the environment and opposes all patents on plants, animals and humans. The GE campagin has 3 primary components - opposing the commercial release of GE canola in Australia (first food crop approved for commercial release); the True Food Network and True Food Guide; and eliminating the use of GE soy in food for livestock (focus on chickens).
See also www.greenpeace.org.nz
The Institute of Health and Environmental Research Inc.
PO Box 155, Kensington Park, SA, 5068, Australia
Email: iher@ozemail.com.au Website: www.iher.org.au
A non-profit research institute with an interest in GMOs, particularly those destined for food. Its directors hold the following degrees: ordinary degrees in Medicine, Science and Agriculture, Honours Degrees in Agricultural Science and Organic Chemistry, a Master of Public Health, and PhDs in Plant Genetics and Medicine. The Directors have training and expertise in plant science, agriculture, medicine, chemistry, biochemistry, nutrition, epidemiology and biostatistics.
GE-Free New Zealand in Food and Environment
PO Box 693, Nelson.
Tel: +64 3 546 7966 or +64 3 5479329.
Email: susie@tasman.net or info@gefree.co.nz Website: www.gefree.org.nz
Non-profit organisation with branches in the Kapiti Coast, Dunedin, Christchurch, Nelson, Wellington, Hawkes Bay, Taupo and Auckland. Visit their website for local group contacts in aoteroea/new zealand.
The People's Moratorium Enforcement Agency
(Aotearoa/New Zealand)
Email: www.pmea.org.nz Website: peoplesmoratorium@riseup.net
A direct action umbrella group for people opposing the NZ government's pro-GE position. See also Aotearoa GE Action Network www.agean.org
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BELGIUM
Friends Of the Earth Campaign for a GMO-free Europe
29 rue Blanche,
B-1060 Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32 2 542 01 82
Email: geert.ritsema@foeeurope.org
Website: www.foeeurope.org/GMOs/gmofree/
Friends of the Earth's European GMO Campaign is working to safeguard GMO-free agriculture and to ensure that European citizens have the right to choose GMO-free food.
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INDIA
Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology
A- 60, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India 110016
Tel +91 11 26968077, 26853772, 26561868
Fax: +91 11 26856795, 26562093
Email: rfste@vsnl.com vshiva@vsnl.com Website: www.vshiva.net
Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology was founded in in 1982 by Dr. Vandana Shiva, and works on biodiversity conservation and protecting people's rights from threats to their livelihoods and environment by centralised systems of monoculture in forestry, agriculture and fisheries.
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NETHERLANDS
ANPED
PO Box 59030, 1040 KA Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
GE contact: Iza Kruszewska, Tel/Fax: 0208 672 3454
Website: www.antenna.nl/anped
Network of local and national groups from Central-Eastern (CEE) and Western Europe, Newly Independent States (NIS) and North America, working on issues of production and consumption, sustainable development and participatory democracy. Their activities on GE food and agriculture are focused on building a regional network of groups in CEE and NIS, starting campaigns in those countries where none exist, and providing information and other support to other groups already campaigning on this issue.
ASEED Europe
PO Box 92066, 1090 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Tel: +31 20 668 2236, Fax: +31 20 468 2275.
Email: aseedeur@antenna.nl Website: www.aseed.net
Activist network committed to ecological and social justice, with organisations and individuals in over 30 European countries. Campaigning on GE and food security since 1996. Develops information tools on GE (e.g. corporate profiles of the main players in the industry and the GE cartoon book 'Of Cabbages and Kings'), and initiates and coordinates actions and campaigns.
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SOUTH AFRICA
Biowatch South Africa
PO Box 13477, Mowbray 7705, Cape Town, South Africa
Tel: +27 21 447 5939
Email: biowatch@mweb.co.za Website: www.biowatch.org.za
Biowatch South Africa is a national non-governmental organisation dedicated to publicising, monitoring and researching issues of biological diversity, genetic engineering and sustainable livelihoods. Their work includes: researching and monitoring the commercialisation of biological resources; promoting sustainable livelihoods, sustainable agriculture and food security; monitoring the impacts GMOs in South Africa; offering expertise and building capacity for the understanding and debate of these issues; and building public awareness on biodiversity issues as a basis for informed participation in policy making.
South African Freeze Alliance on Genetic Engineering
PO Box 13477, Mowbray 7705, Cape Town, South Africa Tel: +27 21 447 8445
Email: safeage@mweb.co.za Website: www.safeage.org
SAFeAGE (South African Freeze Alliance on Genetic Engineering) is committed to ensuring a Five year Freeze is imposed on genetic engineering in food and farming.
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SPAIN
Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN)
Girona 25, pral.
E-08010 Barcelona, Spain.
Tel: +34 93 301 1381, Fax: +34 93 301 1627.
Website: www.grain.org
Founded in 1990, GRAIN is an international non-profit based in Spain which promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge. GRAIN works to meet its aims by protecting and strengthening community control of agricultural biodiversity, promoting agriculture rich in biodiversity, and stopping the destruction of genetic diversity.
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UK/ENGLAND
ActionAid, Campaigns
Hamlyn House, Macdonald Road, Archway, London N19 5PG.
Tel: 0207 561 7611, Fax: 0207 281 5146.
Email: campaigns@actionaid.org.uk Website: www.actionaid.org
Active at a grass roots level in 30 countries. Working on an international food rights campaign, and is increasingly focused on GE and patenting.
Econexus
PO box 3279, Brighton, BN1 1TL, UK
Tel: +44 845 456 9328 or +44 1273 625 173
Email: info@econexus.info Website: www.econexus.info
Econexus is a non-profit scientific research organisation and watchdog, focusing on the impacts of modern technologies, especially genetic engineering, on the environment, health and society.
GeneWatch UK
The Courtyard, Whitecross Road, Tideswell, Buxton SK17 8NY.
Tel: 01298 871898, Fax: 01298 872531.
Website: www.genewatch.org
GeneWatch UK aims are to ensure that genetic technologies are developed and used in the public interest and in a way which promotes human health, protects the environment and respects human rights and the interests of animals. GeneWatch UK researches and analyses new developments in genetics and how they will affect people, the environment and animals; Communicates the issues to decision makers, the public and the media. Advocates practical measures to protect against adverse impacts of genetic technologies on people, the environment and animals;and Challenges the biotechnology industry and others if they produce misleading information.
Genetic Engineering Network
Website: www.geneticsaction.org.uk
UK based network of people opposed to the imposition of GM technology and campaigning against GM food, human and animal genetic engineering, and the ' biotech companies who are increasing their control over our lives and our environment'. GEN includes local campaign and action groups, NGOs, direct activists, and individuals campaigning against genetic engineering. GEN aims to support, link and publicise all parts of the UK's GM campaign. Visit the GEN website for links to local groups across the UK.
Human Genetics Alert
Unit 112 Aberdeen House, 22-24 Highbury Grove, London, N5 2EA
Tel: +44 207 704 6100
Email: info@hgalert.org Website: www.hgalert.org
Human Genetics Alert (HGA) is an independent public interest watchdog group, based in London. Since 1999, HGA has been committed to informing people about human genetics issues, and to putting forward clear policies that serve the public interest. HGA believes that genetic research should be driven by genuine need rather than commercial imperatives or social and cultural prejudices; Genetic technologies must be applied in away which does not exacerbate existing social inequalities, or create new ones; Social problems should not be subjected to "genetic fixes"; People must not be seen simply as determined by their genes; The public must be able to democratically control human genetics.
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