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	Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher - Ethiopia - 2000 Right Livelihood Award Recipient
		Tewolde Berhan was born in 1940, graduated in 1963 from the University of Addia Ababa and took a doctorate from the University of Wales in 1969.
		Tewolde was instrumental in securing recommendations from the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) encouraging African countries to develop and implement community rights, a common position on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), and a clear stance against patents on life.
		Tewolde also guided the drafting of the OAU model legislation for community rights, which is now used as the common basis for all African countries.
	www.rightlivelihood.org /recip/egziabher.htm (371 words)

	Canada denies visa for Africa's top biosafety negotiator - Wikinews
		Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, the Ethiopian government's chief scientist and its representative to the Montreal-based UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) had his passport returned without the requested Canadian visa, and without explanation.
		Tewolde is Africa's chief negotiator for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
		Tewolde had announced he would be visiting Montreal the first week of August to lobby for the labeling of genetically modified (GM) seeds and food products and urge companies and governments to accept liability for environmental contamination their seeds could lead to.
	en.wikinews.org /wiki/Canada_denies_visa_for_Africa's_top_biosafety_negotiator (538 words)

	July/August 2001 Profile - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club
		Tewolde: Let me begin by stressing that the threat is not only to the South; it is to life as a whole.
		Tewolde: In the 1980s I was president of a university and also in charge of a few research projects.
		Tewolde: At the global level, the principle is invoked to protect society, not the individual.
	www.sierraclub.org /sierra/200107/profile.asp (2862 words)

	[Upd-discuss] Canadian govn't denies visa for Afica's top biosafety scholar against bio-patenting
		Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, the Ethiopian government's chief scientist and its representative to the Montreal-based UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) had his passport returned without the requested Canadian visa yesterday, and without explanation.
		Tewolde himself is concerned that Canada's actions signal a pattern, "Now that I have been prevented from coming to Montreal, who knows which ones of you will be prevented next time?" he wrote.
		Tewolde is the recipient of a number of awards and honors for his work in defending biodiversity and the environment.
	lists.essential.org /pipermail/upd-discuss/2005q2/001171.html (666 words)

	Practical Action - Is Small Beautiful? conference - Speeches - Dr Tewolde Egziabher
		Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, 1996, "The Convention on Biological Diversity, Intellectual Property Rights and the Interests of the South," in: Solomon Tilahun and Sue Edwards (ed), The Movement for Collective Intellectual Rights, Institute for Sustainable Development: Addis Ababa, and the Gaia Foundation: London.
		Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, 1999, "Synergies among the Convention on Biological Diversity, the International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources for Food ad Agriculture, the World Trade Organization, and Intellectual Property Rights," paper presented at The African Regional Workshop on Understanding Biodiversity-related International Instruments, January 1999, Lusaka, Zambia.
		Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, 1998, "The role of institutions," Paper presented at the Sunrise Workshop, November 1998, Addis Ababa Ethiopia.
	www.itdg.org /?id=is_small_beautiful_egziabher (3443 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, the Ethiopian government's chief scientist, had his passport returned without the requested Canadian visa Wednesday despite previous visits to Canada.
		Tewolde is trying to attend talks starting May 30 in the Canadian city of Montreal.
		Tewolde had planned to go to Montreal to ensure that GE seeds and food products would be labeled under the agreement.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/sendnews.asp?idnews=28747 (703 words)

	Peace, order and good government, eh?: Better late than never?
		Ethiopia's Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher is the African Union's chief negotiator on biosafety and biodiversity.
		Even if Tewolde's application was late (and he still insists it wasn't), you'd think that for an international conference on an important issue they would have been able to fast-track a visa for an acknowledged expert instead of coming up with reasons to delay it that have never applied before.
		Tewolde has written to the executive director of the UN Environment Program asking that the Secretariat for the UN Convention on Biological Diversity be moved from Montreal to another country.
	www.pogge.ca /archives/000809.shtml (651 words)

	Peoples Earth Summit - Support a strong biosafety protocol
		Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, Chief Negotiator in the Biosafety Protocol for the African Group and the Like-Minded Group, writes a sign-on statement calling for commitment to a rigorous biosafety protocol.
		Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, Chief Negotiator in the Biosafety Protocol for the African Group, was in London on 11 September 2003, when the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety came into force.
		Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher has requested colleagues to circulate this African Statement, inviting you to sign on, together with the other materials he produced for the UK event, in the hope that it will encourage and help everyone in their work.
	www.peoplesearthdecade.org /print_friendly.php?mediacentre_article_id=212 (3351 words)

	Canada Denies Visa for Chief Biosafety and Biodiversity Negotiator
		Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher from Ethiopia – Tewolde to his friends - African Union’s chief spokesperson and negotiator for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was denied a visa to enter Canada for a crucial conference of the parties and preceding working group meeting, which will take place in Montreal between 25 May and 3 June.
		An impassioned, historic speech by Tewolde broke the deadlock; and the European Commission delegate came down on the side of the Africans and developing countries.
		Tewolde also urges all his African and other friends in the Material Transfer Agreement discussions of the ITPGRFA, “to ensure a common understanding on aiming at communally obtaining the benefits that the CBD entitles us, i.e.
	www.geocities.com /akababi/tewolde3.htm (915 words)

	Environmentalist-Unwelcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, Africa's chief negotiator for the UN Convention on Biodiversity, has told his supporters around the world that he has been refused a visa to enter Canada.
		Tewolde had made it known he would come to Montreal to press for the labelling of genetically modified seeds and food products.
		In an e-mail to supporters, Tewolde said he submitted his passport to the Canadian embassy on May 5 but his passport was returned without a visa May 17.
	www.recorder.ca /cp/National/050519/n0519161A.html (361 words)

	Dear Friends,
		Dr Tewolde Berhan was born on 19 February 1940 in a small village near Adwa town in Tigray Region of northern Ethiopia.
		Internationally, Dr Tewolde participated in the negotiations for Agenda 21 and the Convention on Biological Diversity, finalized in 1992.
		In December 2000, Dr Tewolde was awarded a Right Livelihood Award (alternative Nobel Prize) for his leadership in the biosafety negotiations, and for his work in developing and promoting community and farmers' rights.
	www.geocities.com /akababi/tewolde2.htm (1157 words)

	[Upd-discuss] Canadian govn't denies visa for Afica's top biosafety scholar against bio-patenting
		Tewolde's delay at the hands of the Canadian government is particularly troubling because the scientist was a key figure in forcing industrialized countries and biotech corporations to agree to discuss liability and redress issues.
		Tewolde, the Ethiopian government's chief scientist and its representative to the Montreal-based UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) requested a visa from Canada on May 5th and only received it late Tuesday in Addis Ababa.
		In a telephone conversation earlier today, Dr. Tewolde suggested that the future of Montreal as host to the Secretariat of the CBD should be tied to the Canadian government's ability to provide other government delegates with visas.
	lists.essential.org /pipermail/upd-discuss/2005q2/001182.html (625 words)

	BioTech IMC \| Canada denies Tewolde Egziabher visa for the Biosafety meeting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Dr. Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, the Ethiopian government's chief expert and its representative to the Montreal-based UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) had his passport returned without the requested Canadian visa yesterday after a long delay, and without explanation.
		Tewolde is the recipient of a number of awards and honours - in particular, the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize).
		The judge was persuaded by a joint submission on sentencing from the prosecution and the defence that a criminal conviction for domestic violence might serve to prevent Powell from crossing the border.
	biotech.indymedia.org /or/2005/05/4277.shtml (841 words)

	ENB : ICCP1 Montpellier, France
		Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, Ethiopia, faces his peers after achieving the Nobel Prize alternative for his action of mobilizing developing countries in the control of GMOs and the preservation of biodiversity.
		Tewolde shared his happiness with his colleagues, and encouraged continued progress in the spirit of collaboration and humanitarianism.
		Tewolde Gebre Egzhiaber, Ethiopia, noted that the Protocol provides a basis for effective labeling of LMOs, including commodities, but it is not sufficient on its own.
	www.iisd.ca /biodiv/iccp1/13_wednesday.html (1081 words)

	GE-Crops-Negotiations, Bgt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, official negotiator for the G-77 group of developing countries and China, made his demand in a letter to Klaus Topfer, executive director of the UN Environment Program.
		Tewolde appealed for a motion to censure Canada for the difficulty he had in getting a visa and for the continued difficulties he said are being experienced by other delegates to a Montreal conference on biodiversity.
		Tewolde received a visa to visit Montreal only after protests from many North American groups including the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the Council of Canadians.
	www.cp.org /premium/ONLINE/member/agriculture/050525/a052533A.html (637 words)

	Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
		While Tewolde missed some meetings and arrived in Montreal May 27, a member of the Iranian delegation, Jafar Barmaki, was denied a visa.
		Burrows and others said they suspect Tewolde's and the other visa rejections amounted to an attempt to censor voices opposed to Canada, the United States and other countries that grow GMO crops and that oppose labeling and liability for contamination by genetically engineered pollen and seed.
		Tewolde is firmly in support of bulk labeling of genetically engineered products and also liability and redress in the case of any damage to human health or the environment, said Julia Crosfield, a spokesperson for Consumers International, a coalition of 250 organisations in 115 countries.
	www.ipsnews.org /print.asp?idnews=28875 (686 words)

	Montreal Mirror : The Front Page : Genetic Modification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It’s Dr. Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, the Ethiopian diplomat and acknowledged leader of the international anti-GM (genetically modified) food bloc at last week’s UN Biosafety Protocol negotiations in Montreal.
		The commonly held belief among activists and third-world diplomats is that Canada, as an exporter of GM food and opponent of the Biosafety Protocol, deliberately tried to decapitate the anti-GM bloc.
		Tewolde was there and the banner was a true statement.
	www.montrealmirror.com /2005/060905/news1.html (690 words)

	More on Canada Denying Visas to Biotech Critics to Attend Global Biosafety
		The outcome of whether or not Dr Tewolde, the chief negotiator for the Africa Group will be granted a visa to attend the Biosafety Protocol negotiations, is still uncertain at this point, in spite of global outrage at his treatment.
		Egziabher is still waiting to hear the final outcome of his visa application.
		Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, from Ethiopia, is Africa's chief negotiator for the Cartagena Protocol.
	www.organicconsumers.org /ge/canada052405.cfm (3998 words)

	New Scientist Critic of GM organisms barred from Canada - News
		Tewolde planned to attend a UN-sponsored meeting related to the biosafety protocol in Montreal that began on Wednesday, where he intended to press for compulsory labelling of GM foods - a measure Canada opposes.
		The Canadian government denied Tewolde's visa application late last week, but he was invited to reapply, he says - after answering a list of questions about his political affiliations.
		The Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs acknowledged in a written statement that as host to the CBD it is required to let delegates enter the country.
	www.newscientist.com /channel/opinion/mg18625013.600 (248 words)

	GRAIN \| Seedling \| 2002 \| From Rio to Johannesburg: what (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Since 1995 Tewolde Egziabher has been General Manager of the Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia, which is effectively Ethiopia’s Ministry of the Environment.
		During the 1990s Tewolde put much of his energy into the negotiations at the various international biodiversity-related fora, especially the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation.
		Despite strong US and EU opposition, Tewolde’s leadership of the Like-Minded Group in the Montreal negotiations played a key role in achieving an outcome that protects biosafety and biodiversity and respects traditional and community rights in developing countries.
	www.grain.org /seedling?id=205 (1506 words)

	syngenta cuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		According to an NGO that has been in contact with Tewolde, the Canadian Embassy refused his entry visa and asked him Thursday to answer questions about his political involvement over the past 35 years.
		Mooney said Tewolde is an outspoken critic of the "terminator seeds" that are engineered to be sterile, requiring farmers to buy new seeds each growing season.
		Mooney also said Tewolde was planning to call for the labelling of all genetically modified foods.
	www.checkbiotech.org /blocks/dsp_document.cfm?doc_id=10373 (423 words)

	PANNA: News Note: Right Livelihood Awards for Biosafety and New Agriculture
		Tewolde Berhan is General Manager of the Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia.
		Tewolde's leadership during the negotiations played a key role in achieving an outcome -- against strong U.S. and European Union opposition -- that aims to protect biosafety and biodiversity and respects traditional and community rights in developing countries.
		Jackson has emphasized that the implications of this work were not limited to the American prairies and that the 'natural systems' approach could be transferable worldwide.
	www.panna.org /resources/gpc/gpc_200012.10.3.26.dv.html (390 words)

	Friends of Ethiopia::
		Tewolde is also the chief negotiator for the African Union on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) under the auspices of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.
		Tewolde’s troubles began when he applied for a visa from the Canadian Embassy in Addis Ababa.
		It was only then that Tewolde wrote a public letter addressed to the delegates of both meetings (gmwatch.org), revealing the full sequence of events that resulted in his absences.
	friendsofethiopia.blogspot.com /2005/05/important-message-from-tewolde.html (1971 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Ethiopia's new-found plenty
		Now a unique scheme in the Axum area is working to conserve water in the years of plenty and improve soil fertility so that in years when the rains do not come, people are better suited to face the hardship.
		The guru of sustainable development in Ethiopia, Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, says that fertilising the land using compost was one of the main keys to their success.
		The scheme in the Adi Nifas village was so successful that a number of other villages followed the plan and now the nearby market in Axum is thriving where a generation ago people were starving to death.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/africa/2123354.stm (569 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Today the Tigray Project methodology is being implemented in all districts across the country and the government has now adopted their approach as its main strategy for combating land degradation, hunger and poverty throughout the country.
		We are delighted to have this opportunity to hear first hand from our long-time associate Dr. Tewolde Gebre Egziabher, who initiated the Tigray Project a decade ago, precisely with the idea of demonstrating to the government that food security could be attained without chemical inputs.
		Tewolde is also spokesperson of the Africa Group for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and Head of Ethiopia’s Environmental Protection Agency.
	www.gmfoodnews.com /ga210305.txt (444 words)

	foei campaigns: gmo
		Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, a highly respected Ethiopian negotiator, has been a key figure in African countries' efforts to protect biodiversity and human beings from genetically engineered organisms.
		He was expected to participate in discussions and insist on labelling for all genetically engineered commodities and for liability protection in cases of damage to the environment or human beings arising from products of genetic engineering.
		It was agreed in Montreal in January 2000 and has now been ratified by 119 countries.
	www.foei.org /gmo/tewolde.html (311 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		A respected scientist and champion of biodiversity, TEWOLDE BERHAN GEBRE EGZIABHER received the Right To Livelihood Award from the king of SWEDEN in 2000.
		He is considered by some to be the father of the U.N. Biosafety Protocol, adopted in 2000 to address the safe transfer, handling, and use of living genetically modified organisms that could adversely affect biodiversity.
		TEWOLDE says CANADA does not want to see any serious regulations regarding G.M.Os and they do not want him at the meeting because he has been the spokesperson for the AFRICAN group and other developing countries.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/Radio/print.asp?idnews=2929 (104 words)

	GE - Tewolde: Abdication of Responsibility for Biosafety in the Name of
		>> >> Dr Tewolde Egziabher is the General Manager of the Environmental >> Protection >> Authority in Ethiopia.
		He is the Chairperson of the African group of >> delegates and the spokesperson and chief negotiator for the Like-Minded >> Group of Developing Countries (which comprises almost all developing >> countries) at the Biosafety Protocol negotiations.
		The effort of the South and those in the North who >> cherish peace to enjoy their affluence and those who cherish justice and >> wish a better life for all should thus be to keep GMOs out of Seattle.
	www.gene.ch /info4action/1999/Nov/msg00054.html (3847 words)

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