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Uganda: Activists Back Museveni on GMO Bill
Monitor, 5 September 2019
A section of Civil Society Organisations has welcomed President Museveni’s refusal to assent to the National Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill, 2012. Read more »
President Yoweri Museveni has refused to agree to the National Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill, 2012 which some civil society organisations have welcomed. Museveni says the bill is problematic because it does not indicate that the inventor of genetic materials must be held liable for any harm that their products could cause to communities.
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Barbara Ntambirweki, a research fellow with Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment, says the National Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill is bad because ... Read more »
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