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...
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...
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,...
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...
