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Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. 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Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. 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He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. 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I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
\"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. 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The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. 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Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n In 2013, a meeting was held between anti-abortion leaders that belonged to Europe <\/a>and the US. They collaborated and started a group that would promote conservative views on reproductive rights and gender issues in Europe. By 2016, it had been named Agenda Europe. The group decided to increase its work in East Africa. They have a desire to be aware of the people of different regions and their conservative ideas about sexual health and rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Document from Open Democracy highlights Agenda Europe used the social media platform email to plan their actions. The sending duration of these emails was from 2013 to 2019. One of the emails revealed the truth about Swedish politicians. He supported LGBTIQ+ rights and had plans to permit terrible things like necrophilia and incest, calling it shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This false information was used to scare people and was supported by a member named Stefano Gennarini, who thought it would influence opinions in Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gennarinin holds the responsibility of Vice President at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). The Southern Poverty Law Center assigned the name of this US-based group, the anti-LGBTIQ+ \"hate group\". According to the leader of this group, Austin Ruse, Africa is the central target for anti-LGBTQ+ efforts. He believes \u200cAfrica accepts conservative values more than Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Ruse's thoughts, right-wing activists have a desire to spread their views in Africa. Emails also highlight that a US and European group is making efforts to influence African politicians. They can do this by supporting anti-LGBTQ+ movements. Approximately 31 out of 54 African countries have designed laws against same-sex relationships. Many of these rules come from old colonial rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Activist Olabukunola Williams from Uganda<\/a> says the fight for freedom continues. She believes that to achieve true freedom in Africa, people must challenge systems of oppression like patriarchy and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the initial stage, Agenda Europe did not focus more on \u200cLGBTIQ+ rights in Africa. However, in 2015, the change \u200chappened after the involvement of Sharon Slater. She is the one who started Family Watch International (FWI). It is a lobbying group against sex education. FWI promotes family rights. In Agenda Europe emails, Slater shared her views about Uganda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In March 2016, she said her documentary, \u201cThe War On Children\u201d, wrongly claimed that sex education aims to \u201cindoctrinate\u201d children and caused protests in Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next year, she asked the group for opinions and materials for a new sexual rights film. In the early months of 2020, Slater\u2019s documentary was expressed once again on Code Green. It was a show on Spirit TV, with local activists who praised her work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, studies show that LGBTQ+ people do not target children. The American Psychological Association confirms that LGBTQ+ adults are not more likely to harm children than heterosexual adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leader of Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Frank Mugisha, thinks that Western groups have become the source of spreading hate in Uganda. This resulted in harsh laws against LGBTQ+ people. Sexual Minorities Uganda faced different attacks and criticism from the government. Slater is linked to Ugandan pastor Martin Ssempa, who supported the 2014 \"Kill the Gays\" bill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda's court later canceled this bill because it wasn't passed correctly. However, in 2014, there was no working relationship between Slater's group, FWI, and Ssempa. This was due to his effort for the death penalty for some LGBTQ+ people; he remained listed as a volunteer until 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recently, Slater asked President Museveni to add \"conversion therapy\" to the Anti-Homosexuality Act. This practice tries to change a person\u2019s sexual orientation but is widely rejected. Museveni later said he supported this idea but had to reconsider it because of its cost. Mugisha pointed out that the anti-LGBTQ+ actions in Uganda and other African countries are largely influenced by ideas from the West, especially the United States.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Western influence: The rise of anti-LGBTQ+ movements in Africa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"western-influence-the-rise-of-anti-lgbtq-movements-in-africa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7335","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":51},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump's ambassador to Israel, says, \"There's really no such thing as a Palestinian,\" and is against a two-state solution. He shares the Christian Evangelical view that the return of Jews to Israel confirms the biblical story and supports long-term Israeli rule over the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marco Rubio, Trump's secretary of state, is in favor of revisionist, ultra-hawkish Zionism and an Israel modeled after Netanyahu. The Republican Jewish Coalition and pro-Israel America PAC have been among Rubio's top donors during the last six months. Additionally, he is the recipient of $1.6 million in significant individual donations. Rubio emphasized that \"maintaining the U.S.'s steadfast support for Israel is a top priority for Trump\" at his meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve Witkoff, an aggressive real estate tycoon, close golf buddy, and ardent Zionist donor, is Trump's Middle East ambassador. Priority is favored by the position. Witkoff is likely to be able to sidestep Rubio on certain crucial Israel\/Palestinian problems if he has a special envoy who is also special to Trump. In an area where the Gulf empires predominate, Witkoff's ambition appears to be a Jewish unitary state. He oversees the Iran file for Trump and keeps an eye on the ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These important players all have strong pro-Israel lobby views, close relationships with pro-Israel organizations, and, in many cases, a theologically based perspective on Israel. They are also essentially willing to acknowledge a Jewish unitary state with a small Palestinian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elise Stefanik, who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Israel lobby and AIPAC, made headlines around the country in 2023 when she questioned prominent university presidents during a televised congressional hearing on antisemitism in the United States. \"They are pro-Hamas members of a mob who are calling for the eradication of Israel,\" Stefanik said, calling for the expulsion of the students. She called for a \"complete reassessment\" of US support of the UN in October, claiming that it is encouraging \"extreme antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stefanik's confirmation hearings demonstrate that she can now live up to the rhetoric of Trump's <\/p>\n\n\n\n UN ambassador. She declined to respond when asked if she favored Palestinian self-determination. Pam Bondi, Trump's attorney general, has also denounced the rallies on campus and demanded that visas be revoked. Rep. Brian Mast, the newly appointed chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is another member of the suppress-and-deport <\/a>chorus. Mast, like the Israeli far-right, opposes the notion that defenseless Palestinian citizens should support collective punishment. After October 7, 2023, he wore his IDF uniform in Congress. He is an evangelical Christian who volunteered with the Israeli military in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n US support for UNRWA, the refugee organization, would be permanently discontinued. He opposes the Gaza cease-fire and supports further arms shipments to Israel.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Trump, the US lobby, and Palestine: A strategy of repression and annexation","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"trump-the-us-lobby-and-palestine-a-strategy-of-repression-and-annexation","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:34:23","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7379","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7342,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_date_gmt":"2025-01-04 18:02:44","post_content":"\n According to Roxana Bekemohammadi, the founder of the lobbying group the US Hydrogen Alliance, state-by-state incentives may be more important to hydrogen's success in the US in the upcoming year than an increase in federal funding. Influence Map study, US lobbying is preliminary evidence that powerful fossil fuel interests are looking to influence and profit from a second Trump presidency. Numerous strategies presently being used by businesses are similar to those used during the first Trump administration, suggesting that well-known fossil fuel strategies will continue to influence politics and climate policy. It is anticipated that President Trump would fulfill his pledges to revoke all significant environmental laws, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and utilize his executive authority right away to undo policies of the Biden administration, such as the LNG export ban. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This study presents three important findings about corporate policy impact that are probably going to hold during the second Trump term, combining new data with insights from the first Trump administration. Along with a change from defensive legal challenges to aggressive repeal demands, the data reveals that corporations are paying a lot of attention to issues related to fossil fuel infrastructure and the future of gas, which is expected to get worse by 2025. Federal and state policies about fossil gas and permitting reform, together with automotive rules, have garnered the highest support in the US database. This support has come from a variety of sources, including influential organizations like the American Gas Association. Recent top-line statements endorsing the Paris Agreement have been made by some companies, such as ExxonMobil, but they make no mention of the necessity of accelerating rather than slowing the energy transition or of a deeper regulation repeal. Corporate organizations are probably going to keep using particular, nuanced climate narratives that defend and support fossil fuels, especially in the public's perception, through 2025. The briefing highlights a significant overlap in \"consumer choice\" language between politicians and industry interests in the most recent US election as an illustration of this tendency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2015, InfluenceMap analysis in the US has increased gradually, and as of right now, the LobbyMap database includes 37 industry groups and 141 US-based firms. In addition to other factors, including the industry's importance to climate change<\/a>, the expansion of the LobbyMap database gives priority to the biggest businesses as determined by the Forbes Global 2000. Analysis has been conducted throughout several administrations, including the first term of President Trump. Out of the 178 fully evaluated US-based organizations, including businesses and trade groups, 25 (14%) are pursuing climate policy by science-based policy recommendations, 83 (47%) exhibit partially aligned advocacy, and 70 (39%) are not by scientific recommendations. In contrast, Europe has a significantly lower percentage of severely negative (misaligned) organizations and a higher percentage of positively engaging businesses. While 147 (63%) are partially aligned and 45 (19%) are misaligned, 42 (18%) of the evaluated European enterprises and associations are acting by IPCC recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Similar to other regions, the results indicate that the highest percentage of businesses fall into the partially aligned category. These are businesses that take a range of stances on various subjects, either positively or negatively, or that compromise between being completely in favor of or against a cause. This category includes a large number of utility, industrial, and car corporations in the United States. Given that their decarbonization efforts are still in progress, these businesses are heavily involved in the energy transition and are probably impacted by money from the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous unfavorable industry associations, such as the American Petroleum Institute and American Gas Association, contribute to the US having a higher percentage of misaligned entities than other regions. The US lobbying stands out for having a significant number of actively obstructive industry associations that consistently oppose climate ambition, even though misaligned interests do not represent the entire economy. Of the 37 groups evaluated in the US lobbying, the majority (65%) are actively engaging in highly negative climate policy. In comparison, less than one-third of the evaluated groups in Europe are misaligned. These US trade groups frequently speak for the sizable and influential domestic oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was the target of numerous lawsuits from industry over its climate-related rules before President Trump took office in 2017. For instance, the US Chamber of Commerce spearheaded<\/a> a lawsuit opposing the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan. The administration's decision to substitute a weaker Clean Power Plan for the Obama-era one was then endorsed by at least seven significant US associations: the American Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), National Mining Association, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), Auto Alliance, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM), and American Petroleum Institute (API).<\/p>\n","post_title":"US Hydrogen Alliance to prioritize state-level advocacy in 2025","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"us-hydrogen-alliance-to-prioritize-state-level-advocacy-in-2025","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 11:39:39","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7342","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7338,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:57:26","post_content":"\n Kenya has asked for more farming because food costs are going up and the weather is getting worse. But environmentalists warn that weak pesticide rules and pressure from the US agricultural lobby are putting farmers and the general population at risk. President William Ruto has endorsed this ambition with a farmer-support program he claims is aimed at \"putting the shame of hunger behind us once and for all.\" Ruto has stated that Kenya has to become agriculturally self-reliant to save millions of dollars in food imports. The Route to Food initiative works to make Kenya more food-secure. In 2020, over 75% of the agrochemicals used in Kenya were classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). HHPs are very harmful to both humans and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Paraquat, produced by the massive Swiss agro-technology company Syngenta, is one of those HHPs. It is increasingly being connected to Parkinson's disease, an irreversible degenerative brain condition. Paraquat is still permitted in Kenya despite being outlawed in the EU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An inquiry, headed by Lighthouse Reports and incorporating reporting from The New Humanitarian and other global media platforms, has discovered that a \u201creputation management\u201d company, partially supported by US taxpayers, has been covertly undermining initiatives to shield populations in certain regions of Asia and Africa from the health risks associated with dangerous pesticides. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Missouri-based business, v-Fluence, describes itself as offering \"risk communications,\" \"proprietary data mining,\" and \"intelligence gathering\" among other services. Donna Evitts and her son James Evitts, both with Parkinson's disease, have named the business as defendants in a US court case against Syngenta. They believe that paraquat was used for many years. It is alleged that v-Fluence assisted the Chinese-owned company in obfuscating information about the herbicide's hazards for more than 20 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n According to an inquiry, v-Fluence has been awarded more than $400,000 in contracts by the US government to carry out such work aimed at \"neutralizing\" - as the US complaint put it - opponents of \"modern agriculture approaches\" throughout Asia and Africa. This included setting up a secret, members-only website where powerful allies and staff from pesticide companies could obtain personal data on hundreds of people worldwide who were thought to pose a risk to the interests of the business. Like other nations in the Global South, specialists misdiagnose, Kenya has a poor level of awareness of Parkinson's disease. There aren't many specialists; misdiagnosis happens frequently, and stigma prevents people from getting the medication they need to stop the disease's development. John Kiunjuri didn't give it much thought when he initially observed that his hands were trembling. He had worked as a commercial farmer in his mid-40s in Meru, eastern Kenya, cultivating flowers and vegetables for export. He didn't first see the link, but part of his job involved mixing herbicides without gloves or a mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract expired in 1998, and the vibrations got worse. He was unable to handle a teacup by 2016. After finally diagnosing Parkinson's disease, a physician at Nanyuki General Hospital informed him that handling agrochemicals may have contributed to the illness. Regarding his previous employment, Kiunjuri said, <\/p>\n\n\n\n \"They didn't tell me that the chemicals were harmful.\" <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I would have departed sooner if they had taken such action. Kiunjuri, who is now 75, knows that Syngenta's paraquat packaging says it is one of the pesticides he was exposed to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He doesn't know the names of the other chemicals. Kiunjuri and other former farm workers, whose health has been hurt by handling paraquat and other HHPs, are suing many agrochemical companies, including Syngenta East Africa. They are suing on behalf of the African Center for Corrective and Preventive Action, a legal aid NGO, and Kenyan lawyer Kelvin Kubai. In the meanwhile, the Evitts lawsuit is only one of many being filed in the US by people claiming paraquat exposure caused them to have Parkinson's disease. February is when the first US trial is supposed to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although pesticide manufacturers maintain that their chemicals are safe when used appropriately, farmers are rather vulnerable in the field. They frequently lack basic safety equipment like masks and gloves, are unlikely to have received the necessary training for handling chemicals, and the product labels are rarely written in a language that is widely spoken in the region. Kenya's agrochemical industry is growing rapidly. People are trying to get rid of the most harmful pesticides on the market. These include those that are thought to cause cancer, birth defects, and problems with the brain and hormone systems.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The US agrochemical lobby's grip on Kenyan farming","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the-us-agrochemical-lobbys-grip-on-kenyan-farming","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-04 14:13:49","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=7338","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":7335,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_date_gmt":"2024-12-22 14:47:43","post_content":"\n
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