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South Korea: La Via Campesina is in solidarity with peasant movements in their struggle to build a new society
26 March 2025
At the recently concluded meeting of the International Coordination Committee of La Via Campesina in Nairobi, Kenya, the global movement issued a statement of solidarity with the Korean Peasant Movements in their fight to remove President Yoon Seok-yeol and build a new society.
17 April 2025: International Day of Peasant Struggles | Call to Action
24 March 2025
Since the 1996 massacre of Eldorado dos Carajás in Brazil, where 21 peasants were murdered for fighting for agrarian reform—a crime that remains unpunished—we have organized globally every April 17. Forgetting only serves those who continue to oppress us, so we unite to honor this struggle, demand justice, and strengthen our resistance.
Notes from the daily journal of two peasant women from Europe who visited Palestine in December 2024
22 March 2025
From December 8 to 18, 2024, a delegation of nine peasant-farmers traveled to Palestine, in the West Bank. All their organizations are part of the international peasant movement La Via Campesina, which also includes the Palestinian organization UAWC (Union of Agricultural Work Committees) as a member.
La Vía Campesina stands in solidarity with Via Campagnola and the Confédération Paysanne after the assassination of peasant Pierre Alessandri
21 March 2025
La Via Campesina expresses its solidarity and condolences to Via Campagnola and the Condéfération Paysanne for the murder of the Corsican peasant activist Pierre Alessandri.
Catch up on all the #8M25 mobilizations worldwide
A collection of articles covering the #8M25 mobilizations worldwide.
Guatemala: Indigenous women mobilized for their right to a full life and for their right to land and territory
20 March 2025
Q’eqchí women, members of the Peasant Unity Committee (CUC), commemorate their struggle for land and territory in an act of resistance and unity where they reaffirmed their role as guardians of their ancestral territory.
Brazil: Peasant Women Highlight Health Impacts of Pesticides and Demand Public Policies for Diversified, Local Production
19 March 2025
For example, in the state of Mato Grosso, research conducted by the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT) identified a high incidence of cancer in municipalities that produce agricultural raw materials, associating it with the intensive use of pesticides.
Colombia: Only 26% of rural women own the land they work
The women of Fensuagro have denounced the lack of access to land, which remains one of the greatest barriers to their autonomy. Although they represent 40% of the agricultural workforce, only 26% of rural women in Colombia own the land they work.
Peru: Indigenous organizations demand the government to reject the “Gag Law” (APCI) for violating Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
18 March 2025
We strongly condemn the approval of the amendment to Law 27692, the Law on the Creation of the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI), passed by Congress on March 12. We categorically reject this so-called “Gag Law,” a sinister maneuver aimed at stripping us of our rights and subjecting Indigenous peoples to even greater oppressive control.
La Via Campesina Statement: Day 527 of Genocide, Israeli Occupation Continues Massacres in Gaza
At dawn today, the Israeli occupation resumed its genocidal war on Gaza, launching a brutal wave of airstrikes that have now massacred over 412 Palestinians and injured at least 562 in just a few hours. This is genocide. It is an organized, systematic attempt to erase the Palestinian people, and the world is allowing it to happen.
Dominican Republic: “Persist, resist, transform for Women’s Rights”
17 March 2025
In commemoration of March 8, International Working Women’s Day, the organizations that are part of CLOC-Vía Campesina in the Dominican Republic, along with other social movement organizations in the country, gathered for a march through the streets of Santo Domingo.
Paraguay: Working women together and organized, we defend our rights – ñadefende ñande derecho !
The proposal to eliminate the Ministry of Women, the Ministry of Children and Adolescents, and Law 5777 on Comprehensive Protection of Women, launched by the government and spokespeople for Cartismo, clearly show how institutionalized machismo and misogyny are.