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International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women

#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...

08 March: International Women’s Day 2019

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...

17 April, 2019: International Day of Peasant’s Struggle

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...

VII CLOC Congress – Via Campesina

25 -30 June 2019 The VII Continental Congress of CLOC - LVC will be held from 25 to 30 June 2019 in Havana, Cuba. This big peasant meeting will take place within the framework of 60 years of the signing of the first Agrarian Reform Law signed by Fidel Castro Ruz, which has allowed, in...