{"id":231071,"date":"2023-03-13T12:01:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T12:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=231071"},"modified":"2023-03-12T05:59:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T05:59:35","slug":"open-letter-from-diverse-women-for-diversity-to-world-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/03\/open-letter-from-diverse-women-for-diversity-to-world-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter from \u2018Diverse Women for Diversity\u2019 to World Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

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8 Mar 2023 – <\/em>We, the women of the world, meeting together in Dehradun<\/a>, India as the \u00a8Diverse Women for Diversity\u00a8, and 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>\n

We 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 for protection of Biodiversity and resisting the imposition of GMOs which destroy our biodiversity and our food sovereignty, support the Mexican government, condemn the bullying by United States and the biotechnology industry to force GMOs on Mexico and the world violating the Convention of Biological Diversity and the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety which enshrine sovereignty and the precautionary principle. We also ask the European Commission to stand by the decisions they have made under the precautionary principle.<\/p>\n

We call on the governments to:<\/strong><\/p>\n