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Published by The Observer (London) | By Hugh O'Shaughnessy | Sunday, June 17, 2001

The tiny indigenous Kofan community of Santa Rosa de Guamuez in Colombia had it hard enough with pressures from settlers on their reservation, without Roundup Ultra containing Cosmoflux 411F, a weedkiller that is being sprayed on their villages in a concentration 100 times more powerful than is permitted in the United States.

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Published by The Sunday Times (London) | By Maurice Chittenden and Nicholas Rufford | Sunday, June 17, 2001

A private intelligence firm with close links to MI6 spied on environmental campaign groups to collect information for oil companies, including Shell and BP.

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Published by Boston Globe | By Elizabeth Neuffer | Friday, June 15, 2001

Consumer and agricultural watchdog groups yesterday accused a multinational corporation that produces genetically modified foods of failing to uphold a UN code of business conduct to which it had agreed.

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Published by Associated Press | By Kim Gamel | Thursday, June 14, 2001

Thousands of anti-globalization and environmental activists converged Thursday on this port city as President Bush joined 15 European Union leaders for a summit expected to focus on the widening gap between Washington and its European allies.

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Published by Indigenous Environmental Network, International Indian Treaty Council, et al. | By | Thursday, June 14, 2001

The Indigenous Environmental Network, the International Indian Treaty Council and Greenaction issue this call to action to stop George W. Bush's plan to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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Published by Reuters | By Paul Taylor | Thursday, June 14, 2001

President Bush and European Union leaders failed to resolve deep differences over global warming Thursday, but agreed to stay together in the Balkans and made some progress on world trade.

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Published by Medha Patkar, Narmada Bachao Andolan | By | Thursday, June 14, 2001

As the Narmada valley prepares for the another illegal, inhuman and fatal submergence threatening the farms and houses of over 5000 project affected families in three states, the Maharashtra government has been supporting the further work on the damundermining the rights of its own tribals and the cost-benefit of the project for the state.

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Published by Inter Press Service | By Danielle Knight | Thursday, June 14, 2001

Companies worldwide have signed on to voluntary codes of conduct in a bid to mitigate globalization's harmful aspects. Activists and executives agree the firms are falling short but disagree on the reasons and remedies.

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