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Shiva: Wto, Patents On Lifeforms And Amendments In India's Patent Law
Commentary, April, 13 2005
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On 26th of December, the day of the tsunami, the Government of India introduced a Patent Ordinance which we named the tsunami law, since it threatens to tear down the entire fabric of food security and health security we had built carefully and de...
Shiva: The Law For Food Facism: The Proposed Food Safety & Standards Bill, 2005
Znet Article, February, 21 2005
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Food laws and Food Safety for India’s diverse and local food economy The Government has drafted a Food Safety and Standards Bill 2005 as an “Integrated Food Law†which has been prepared with the intention to be contempora...
Shiva: The Indian Seed Act And Patent Act
Znet Article, February, 14 2005
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Since the beginning of farming, farmers have sown seeds, harvested crops, saved part of the harvest for seeds, exchanged seeds with neighbours. Every ritual in India involves seeds, the very symbol of life’s renewal. In 2004 two laws hav...
Shiva: Tsunami Teachings: Reflections for the New Year
Commentary, January, 23 2005
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Gaia could not have picked a more appropriate time and place to send us a message of her hidden powers, and the message that we are Indians and Indonesians, Sri Lankans and Swedes, Thai's and Maldivians only secondarily - we are first and foremost...
Shiva: Work Is Worship
Znet Article, January, 21 2005
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On 5th December 2004, I was honoured with the Basavashree Awar...
Shiva: Water Tariff Increase: Rushing Towards Water Privatisation
Commentary, December, 18 2004
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The Delhi Governments announcement of a seven to tenfold increase in water tariffs overnight is meant to facilitate privatization in violation of every democratic norm and human rights principle.
Shiva: Terra Madre: A Celebration Of Living Economies
Commentary, November, 26 2004
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In a world dominated by fear and fragmentation, dispensability and despair a magical gathering of food communities Ð Terra Madre Ð took place in Turin, Italy, from 20-22 October 2004. Slow Food, the movement that has put the culture of growing and...
Shiva: An Attack On PeopleÕs Movements
Commentary, November, 05 2004
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Ten years of WTO and five years since the victory of civil society and the Third World in Seattle is a good time to pause and reflect on the debate on globalisation.
Shiva: An Attack On People’s Movements
Commentary, November, 05 2004
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Ten years of WTO and five years since the victory of civil society and the Third World in Seattle is a good time to pause and reflect on the debate on globalisation.
Shiva: Who Won, Who Lost: The Victory of the Agribusiness in the WTO Framework Agreement
Commentary, August, 26 2004
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On 16th August, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath informed the Rajya Sabha that India had made significant gains in the recently negotiated Framework Agreement in Geneva on the Doha Work Programme.
Shiva: Wto Negotiations And The Betrayal Of The Doha Mandate
Commentary, July, 29 2004
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The General Council of the WTO is to meet on 27-29 July 2004 to pick up the negotiations that broke down in Cancun on the Doha Mandate.
Shiva: To India's Finance Minister
Znet Article, June, 29 2004
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Dear Shri Chidambaram ji, You have announced a "bail-out" package for Indian farmers, thousands of whom have taken their lives in distress and hopelessness, by asking the banks in the commercial, cooperative and public sector to increase their ru...
Shiva: The Indian Elections 2004: The Vote Against Corporate Globalisation
Commentary, June, 19 2004
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The world is stunned by the results of the Indian elections, both because of how the ruling BJP was wiped out at the polls in spite of its "India Shining" Campaign and its exclusivist "Hindutva" plank, but also because the majority of voters of th...
Shiva: Building Water Democracy : People's victory against Coca-Cola in Plachimada
Commentary, May, 13 2004
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Two years ago, adivasi women in a small hamlet, Plachimada, in Palghat, Kerala started a movement against Coca-Cola. Today, the Coca-Cola plant in Plachimada has been shut down. The victory of the Plachimada movement is major step in reversing cor...
Shiva: Wheat Biopiracy
Commentary, April, 24 2004
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WILL "GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD" BECOME A PRAYER TO MONSANTO?
Shiva: Super Highways
Znet Article, February, 19 2004
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Super Highways
Shiva: The Suicide Economy Of Corporate Globalisation
Commentary, February, 19 2004
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The Indian peasantry, the largest body of surviving small farmers in the world, today faces a crisis of extinction.
Shiva: Towards A People Centred Fair Trade Agreement On Agriculture
Commentary, December, 24 2003
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The collapse of the Cancun W.T.O. Ministerial was to a large extent due to the blatant unfairness of the rules of the Agreement on Agriculture which is killing farmers, killing biodiversity, killing fair and just distribution and killing food secu...
Shiva: Social Movements
Znet Article, November, 19 2003
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When tens of thousands filled the streets of Seattle to protest a summit of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1999, many news reports focused on the spectacle of the moment — the tear gas in the air, the smashed storefront windows, the...
Shiva: River Linking Project
Commentary, November, 19 2003
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The Indian river linking project of Rs. 560,000 crore ($200b) has now been elevated to the level of a creation myth by referring to it as "Amrit Kranti", invoking the imagery of Sagar Manthan - the creation story of Indian mythology in which the g...
