Media Advisory (Cape Town, April 14, 2017) Next week starting on the 18th to the… Read more →
Key Documents (Peasants’ Rights)

Without peasants, there is no food. Let’s grow their rights!
A large coalition for Peasants’ Rights (leaded by HOTL partners and Nyéléni Europe) has launched… Read more →

Peasants’ houses in Mekar Jaya – the ‘‘hometown of agrarian reform’’ in Indonesia – razed down by a plantation firm
It is cruelly ironical. Less than 72 hours after President Joko Widodo’s orders to implement… Read more →

Manifest: Rights of peasants – a step ahead for the future of humanity
Schwäbisch Hall, 13 March 2017 The International Congress on Peasants’ Rights, which took place from 7… Read more →
“The need for a UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants is more urgent than ever”
Report from the Global Peasants’ Rights Congress from 7-10 March 2017 in Schäbisch Hall, Germany… Read more →

Moving towards a UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas
Opening speech by Elizabeth Mpofu (General Secretary of La Via Campesina) of the Peasants’ Rights… Read more →

Bharatiya Kisan Union demand compensation for land acquired for Kanpur thermal power plant
They also demanded that farmers arrested from the protest site be immediately released. Kanpur, India:… Read more →

Peasants of the world unite in Schwaebisch Hall for a declaration on Peasants’ Rights
February 23, 2017 Peasants* feed the majority of the world‘s population. Still, they are increasingly… Read more →

LVC SEAf condemns recent criminalisation of traditional seed exchange in Tanzania
LVC SEAf Press Release, Harare January 16, 2017 The recent reports that Tanzanian farmers would… Read more →

“There can be no Declaration on the Rights of Peasants without the right to land”
Brussels, December 6, 2016 La Via Campesina speaks for the Right to Land and other… Read more →