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...
#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...
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...
Every year, during the week of 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...
