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SUNS # 9294 Friday 26 February 2021
 
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Rights : Persistent failure to ensure accountability for Israeli violations in OPT (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Geneva)
The period from 1 November 2019 to 31 October 2020 has been characterized by "a persistent pervasive failure to ensure accountability for allegations of excessive use of force by the Israeli security forces in the context of law enforcement operations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)."

Trade : "Tug of war" between major subsidizers on fisheries & non-polluters (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The Doha Rules negotiations on prohibiting certain forms of fisheries subsidies remain at an impasse at the World Trade Organization over the blanket carve-out extended to major subsidizers to continue with their subsidies for overcapacity and overfishing (OCOF) that has led to the depletion of global fish stocks, negotiators told the SUNS.

Latin America : Mexico to ban glyphosate, GM corn (PRIV)
(IPS, Cambridge)
Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador quietly rocked the agribusiness world with his New Year's Eve decree to phase out use of the herbicide glyphosate and the cultivation of genetically modified corn.


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