Mexico’s Supreme Court ratifies order to halt cultivation of GMO corn and other stories

Today we look at a ruling by Mexico’s Supreme Court upholding a ban on GMO corn, ongoing violence against protestors in Swaziland, and more

October 21, 2021 by Peoples Dispatch

In today’s episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at the key ruling issued by Mexico’s supreme court ratifying an injunction against the commercial cultivation of genetically modified corn; renewed violence against protestors in Swaziland and the arrival of a delegation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC); a document leak accessed by Greenpeace Unearthed showing lobbying efforts by companies and countries to amend major parts of the UN IPCC’s climate report; and the ongoing strike by over 20,000 civil servants in Sao Paulo, Brazil against a pension reform proposal.