This is the North American fiscal sponsor of an internationally linked network that has done more to eliminate seriously bad pesticides than just about any other nonprofit out there. This group links with groups in 60 countries around the world, working from the community level up to the meeting rooms of the UN and the Stockholm convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, for instance, to bring together people affected by pesticide-linked disease and the entities that regulate and control them.
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Environment, Pollution Abatement & Control
Mission: PAN RC provides funding for regional coordination of the international work of Pesticide Action Network. PAN RClinks international consumer, labor, health, human rights, environmental and agricultural groups into a growing citizens' mobement to replace pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives.
Programs: 1. Phasing out the use of Persistent Organic Pollutants. 2. Promoting controls on chemicals in international trade. 3. Increasing rights of developing countries to stop unwanted imports of hazardous pesticides. 4.Strengthening the UN Food and Agriculture Organization International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides. 5. Addressing the threat of genetically engineered foods by raising awareness of the connection between corporate control of genetically engineered seeds and pesticide manufacturing.
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