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...
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...
This October 16, the International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty and against Transnational corporations, we call for action by organised social movements, unions, universities, the media and people’s governments that prioritise their peoples. We call for increased pressure to enforce farmers’ rights and for public policies based on food sovereignty and not on...
