Non-governmental advocacy and activist sites
(Note that the following list is alphabetized by organization name.)

Biodiversity Forum: links to various on-line resources

Biosis [1]: an electronic public debate about biotechnology (Science Museums, London, U.K.)

Community Nutrition Institute (USA): on-line documents on biotechnology, food and health

Consumer Project on Technology: intellectual property rights, pharmaceutical development, anti-trust issues, etc.

Eubios Ethics Institute (Japan): news on regulation and field trials of genetically modified organisms

Geneletter: social issues of genetics and relevant links

Rio+5: Report on Biodiversity by Akiko Domoto, Global Legislators for a Balanced Environment (including section on international bio-sa fety negotiations)

Greenpeace Biodiversity Campaign

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (USA): biotechnology library (gopher service)

International Institute for Sustainable Development (Canada): up-dates on the continuing meetings of the biodiversity treaty's Open-Ended Ad Hoc Working Group on Biosafety (BSWG) under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Rural Advancement Foundation International (Canada): food security, farmers' rights, patents on plants, etc.

Sierra Club (USA): statement of policy on biotechnologies

State of the World Forum Statement on Life and Evolution, maintained by Physicians Against Genetically Engineered Food

Third World Network: papers on biotechnology, trade and environment

Union of Concerned Scientists (USA): agriculture and biotechnology program

Washington Biotechnology Action Council (WashBAC, Seattle, USA)