Posted on 02/16/2005 10:17:25 AM PST by MikeEdwards
EU must retract threat to ban Uganda exports, if country uses DDT to control malaria.
CORE official calls Rijcken an old-fashioned racist who should leave Uganda.
[New York, NY] "It is inconceivable, unconscionable and reprehensible that the European Union would put its fear of pesticides above the lives of innocent Ugandan mothers and children," the Congress of Racial Equality’s Cyril Boynes, Jr. said today. "But that is exactly what is happening. EU charge’ d’affaires Guy Rijcken’s vile threat is an abuse of his authority and a serious human rights violation. The Government of Uganda should immediately review his diplomatic credentials."
Boynes was responding to Rijcken’s recent memo to Uganda’s health, agricultural and trade ministers, urging their government not to use DDT because, the charge’ said, the pesticide poses serious health and environmental risks. "He is wrong about the risks," Boynes emphasized, "and his threats completely ignore the dire health crisis that Uganda — and many other African countries — face from malaria. Boynes is director of international affairs for CORE, one of the oldest and most respected civil and human rights organizations in the United States.
According to the U.S. Agency for International Development, up to 400 million Africans get malaria every year, and as many as 2 million die. Half are young children, and most of the others are pregnant women. This mosquito-borne disease is a major cause of Africa’s enduring poverty, because malaria victims often cannot work, go to school, tend their fields or care for their families for weeks or months at a time. . . . .
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What a swell world leader the UESR (Union of European Socialist Republics) would make! Kinda gives ya the shivers...
As usual, the left reacts with fear and points back to long discredited junk science at the mere mention of using DDT to save lives.
I think the EU and the UN violate human rights.
well if thier products are good quality adn fair priced, i say sell them to the US, we will purchase them.
In other words, tell the UN/EU to pound sand!
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