Actually, there is another side to this.
IIRC, the patent on DDT had run out, so it was banned in order to make a market for an inferior albeit patented product (organo-phosphate) held by Zeneca. Since then, the obvious liabilities of organo-phosphates have surfaced and the patent has been transferred to a shell corporation in Arizona.
The pattern fits any number of crooked misanthropic UN stunts on behalf of the world's super rich, the most memorable being the Montreal Protocol, now extending into "cap and trade" to combat fraudulent Glow-bill Warming.
So, the better subtitle would be (The U.N. bows to the corporate "anti-insecticide" lobby and people die), seeing as most of the NGOs (non-governmental organizations) that constitute UN pressure groups are financed by the tax-exempt "charitable" foundations of major corporate stockholders. The left really has been fascist all along.
And Dupont set the example with R-12 and the phony CFC scare. Worked for them.