November 25, 2019 : A European Citizens’ Initiative launches today to phase out synthetic pesticides by 2035, support farmers, and save bees and nature. If it gathers one million signatures by September 2020, the EU Commission and Parliament must consider turning the campaign’s demands into law. [1] 90 organisations from 17 EU countries, including Justice… Read More

Following Noël Pouliquen’s victory at the TGI in Vannes, we reproduce here the press release from our partner Collectif de Soutien aux Victimes des Pesticides de l’Ouest with Union Régionale Solidaires de Bretagne : In a judgment handed down today, Wednesday November 6, 2019, the social section of the Court of Vannes recognised the inexcusable… Read More

April 11, 2019: Today, the Court of Appeals of Lyon has again said that Monsanto is responsible for Paul François‘ illnesses after having been intoxicated with Lasso herbicides. Paul François is the chair of the French NGO Phyto-Victimes and a board member of Justice Pesticides. We are very pleased of this 3rd court decision that… Read More

March 27, 2019, San Francisco, a six-person jury awarded more than $80 million in damages to Edwin Hardeman, a Californian landscaper who suffers from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after using Roundup for years, in the case Hardeman v. Monsanto. This is the second time Monsanto has been sentenced to millions of dollars in damages because its flagship… Read More

On March 19, 2019, after five days of deliberations, a jury of 6 people unanimously answered YES to the question: Did Mr. Hardeman prove by a preponderance of the evidence that his exposure to Roundup was a substantial factor in causing his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma? Hardeman v. Monsanto is the second trial in the United States… Read More

03/07/2018: The Court of Justice of the European Union overturns EFSA’s decisions to withhold access to documents from industry used for the assessment of glyphosate, the so-called active substance of Roundup, during the process for its authorisation renewal by the European Commission. This is a great victory for transparency, and for better protection of the… Read More