Social organisations and movements, communities affected by the operations of transnational corporations and others fighting for social and environmental justice around the world will march to Geneva in October 2017 (23rd to 26th) in what will be the third week of mobilization for the establishment of a treaty that imposes on states and corporations international... Read more →
Starting on 3 November, thousands of people from across the world will converge in Bonn, Germany for action on climate justice. The People’s Climate Summit 2017 ending on the 7th November is an important space for social movements to act and put forward alternatives and solutions to capitalism and its global climate crisis. Just in... Read more →
In response to the current attack against migrants and refugees from the northern states, the International Collective of Migration and Salaried Work, calls the International Meeting on Migration and Wage Work from November 2 to 5, 2017 at the border of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Currently, the border between Mexico and the United States is not... Read more →
La Via Campesina is calling upon social movements and civil society organisations of the world to mobilise and organise our resistances against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), build solidarity alliances and to participate in the Peoples' Summit “WTO Out! Building Sovereignty”, from the 11-13 December, coinciding with the XI WTO... Read more →
On International Women’s Day, we, the women of La Via Campesina - peasants, indigenous women, Afro-descendants, mestizas, fishers, pastoralists, women from urban and rural areas, belonging to different organisations with different forms of mobilisation and activism - want to salute the women workers of the world. A tribute to the women who gave their lives,... Read more →
Every year, on the 17th of April, the International Day of Peasant’s Struggle of La Via Campesina, we commemorate the massacre of the landless peasants in 1996 in Eldorado dos Carajás, Brazil while struggling for comprehensive agrarian reform. During the protest, the Brazilian military police in the Amazonian State of Pará attacked members of the... Read more →
On the 10th of September 2003, while protesting outside the WTO ministerial in Cancun, Mexico, farmer Lee Kyung Hae sacrificed his life by stabbing himself. That tragic incident exposed the destructive effects of WTO on the lives of millions of peasants globally. In memory of farmer Lee and the continuing struggles of peasants in resisting... Read more →
On this October 16, 2018, on the occasion of the World Day of Action for Food Sovereignty of Peoples and Against Multinationals, we are relaunching this campaign and the “Adopt a Seed” action. We call on every peasant, peasant family or community to engage in the adoption of a variety of plant or animal seeds, to... Read more →
#LaViaCampesina #25Nov #PopularPeasantFeminism Women play a crucial role for La Via Campesina, our movement defends their rights and gender equality. We fight together against all forms of violence against women, and every year we make a global call to articulate actions of debate and denunciation for the elimination of all forms of violence, organizing actions... Read more →
On this day, we, the women of La Via Campesina – peasants, indigenous women, Afro-descendants, mestizas, fishers, pastoralists, women from urban and rural areas, belonging to different organisations with different forms of mobilisation and activism – salute the women workers of the world. We pay tribute to those women who are engaged in a constant... Read more →
