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La Via Campesina participates and gives inputs to the first in-person meeting of the UN Working Group on Rights of Peasants in Geneva
14 November 2024
From 21 to 25 October 2024, the Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas held its second session in Geneva. On 23 October consultations were held with civil society organizations on the UNDROP implementation process. La Via Campesina is convinced that UNDROP is an important tool to foster peasant agroecology, climate and environmental justice, ensure the right to food for everyone, enhance the right to health, and generally protect human rights.
A note on harassment in the movements
In this short text Mayrá writes about harassment, especially in places of political activism. Mayrá highlights that data of the most varied kinds show that harassment, of whatever kind, is a phenomenon based on power relations and that it reaffirms gender inequalities in the most diverse social spheres. In a relationship where there is harassment, the background is the belief that the other person is in a hierarchical situation inferior to that of the aggressor.
Southeast and East Asia Peasant Youth Assembly Convenes for Agrarian Justice
11 November 2024
Youth representatives from Timor-Leste, the Philippines, Thailand, South Korea, Indonesia, Japan, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Australia participated in this three-day assembly, held from October 22 to 24, to promote regional cooperation, share knowledge, and campaign for agrarian justice and sustainable food systems.
#25Nov24 – Call to Action: Peasant women united for justice and Food Sovereignty! Stop violence, hunger, and wars!
8 November 2024
The current context of multiple crises, exacerbated by brutal occupations, wars, and conflicts that cause poverty, hunger, migration, death, and femicides in in the world, and specially, in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan, Yemen, Haiti, Niger, Peru, Ecuador and Mali, urgently requires us to place gender and social justice at the center of our political agenda. We need the deliberation and action at the global, regional, and local levels; within our movements, and in our communities, societies, and countries.
2024 | October Newswrap: Updates from Member Organizations Worldwide
On the 16th of October, the International Day of Action for People’s Food Sovereignty and Against Transnational Corporations, La Via Campesina mobilized its regional and local organizations, allies, social movements, and collectives in defense of life, healthy and sovereign food for the people, and the rights of millions of peasants.
EU-Mercosur deal: European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) to mobilize in November
6 November 2024
After widespread farmers protests at the beginning of the year and countless agricultural crises (prices, animal diseases, climate disasters, etc.), ECVC farmers and civil society organisations from across Europe will mobilise in Brussels in the week commencing 11 November against the European Commission’s desperate attempts to approve the EU-Mercosur agreement.
Continental Schools of Women: Strategy for Political Education and Feminist Struggle by La Via Campesina
Women who attend the continental schools are diverse and empower each other to replicate political education efforts and discussions locally, and also to promote deeper connections between local agendas and a global vision. The initiative also aims to boost the building of feminism within La Via Campesina.
Palestinian Farmers’ Struggle for Survival and the Fight for Food Sovereignty
1 November 2024
For over a year, since October 2023, Palestine has endured the relentless onslaught of Israeli genocidal warfare, coupled with 76 years of ongoing settler colonialism, systemic land theft, and deliberate attacks on indigenous food systems. In the face of Israel’s systematic destruction and violent targeting of Palestinian farmers, UAWC calls on the international community to fulfill its responsibilities and for the social movements and civil society to intensify their solidarity for Palestinians and to dismantle the mechanisms of occupation, colonization, and exploitation.
Neither Women nor Land are Territories to Conquer! – Joint Declaration of the Women’s Articulations of ARNA and ECVC
29 October 2024
Forcefully, we stand together against the neo-liberal and patriarchal system which is based on the exploitation of the work of women: Women carry out an important part of the agricultural work but often do not own the means of production and resources. They produce food intended for export which they cannot afford themselves.
Call for Artists for Food Sovereignty – Nyéléni Edition | Systemic Transformation is NOW or NEVER!
28 October 2024
The “Artists for Food Sovereignty – Nyéléni Edition” call invites a wide range of productions in various formats: songs, music videos, poems, paintings, photographs, illustrations, documentaries, podcasts, etc. After the submission deadline on January 31, 2025, the materials will be curated for a virtual exhibition in April 2025. These will also be showcased in a physical exhibition during the 3rd Global Nyéléni Forum.
La Via Campesina supports Colombian Government’s ICARRD+20 initiative for a Comprehensive and Popular Agrarian Reform
27 October 2024
La Via Campesina has backed the Colombian government’s initiative to host this significant international conference (ICARRD+20) originally proposed to the FAO 18 years ago.
African People’s Counter-COP denounces the COP system and demands climate justice for Global South be at the centre of the climate action
25 October 2024
The African People’s Counter COP (APCC) gathered in Saly, Senegal with over one hundred participants, from 21 countries, participating. Many African voices – excluded from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties – were captured and legitimized during the gathering. It denounced the COP system, highlighted the impacts of climate change on African communities and showcased viable alternatives that can lead to just climate solutions across Africa.