This report originally appeared in The Hindu on 15 June People visiting the Deputy Commissioner’s… Read more →
Peasants’ Rights
Harvest of Hope | The struggles of tenant farmers in Okara Military Farms, Pakistan
This article originally appeared on Newsline in its May Issue When the warm sun, that… Read more →
Oppression of Pakistan’s caricatured feudalism
May 14, 2018: Large swathes of Pakistan are in the stranglehold of caricatured feudalism. These… Read more →
Law on Land Procurement & Highway Construction is resulting in peasant houses and lands being forcefully grabbed: SPI, Indonesia
Jakarta: In Central Java, the Batang-Semarang highway construction has led to blatant and unjust grabbing… Read more →
Joint Statement by LVC and CSOs: 5th OEIWG session | UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas
La Via Campesina, The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied… Read more →
PETITION: EU, protect our peasants and food systems!
EU governments and leaders The 2 billion people working in rural areas are claiming their… Read more →
“Looking forward to the adoption of a strong UN declaration, capable of protecting the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas”
Side Event– On the occasion of the 37th session of the Human Rights Council, the… Read more →
India Enraged: Farmers warn of larger agitation if the government continues with its apathy
In two days, two major cities of India – Mumbai and Delhi – witnessed thousands… Read more →
All our rebelliousness when they kill a Landless
Márcio Matos, a leader of the MST and a political reference in the struggle for… Read more →
Action in front of EU Commission offices this 17/01 : Against new GMOs and for the Right to seeds – Peasants’ Rights
On January 18th, the General Prosecutor of the European Union Court of Justice will present… Read more →
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Our events
08 March: International Women’s Day 2019
On this day, we, the women of La Via Campesina – peasants, indigenous women, Afro-descendants,… Read more →