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La Via Campesina | newsletter| We will be stronger in 2019!
by La Via Campesina 24 Dec '18

24 Dec '18

*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | Sept - Dec 2018 "Special Edition" Donate [1] This edition of the newsletter is the result of a collective effort of organisations, which are part of_ La Via Campesina_ movement worldwide. This is also a SPECIAL EDITION that celebrates the adoption of the _UN Declaration on Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas_. We are ending 2018 on a high note, with renewed energies and a high momentum that will make us stronger in 2019! To subscribe to our monthly newsletter click here [2] FINALLY, THE UNITED NATIONS ADOPTS PEASANTS RIGHTS DECLARATION! _On 17 December 2018, the 73 Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 73) in New York adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas. Now that the declaration is an international legal instrument, La Via Campesina (LVC) and its allies will mobilise to support regional and national implementation processes. With 121 votes in favour, 8 votes against and 54 abstentions, the forum of UNGA representing 193 Member States, ushered in a new promising chapter in the struggle for the rights of peasants and other rural communities throughout the world._ Read our press release [3] RECOMMENDED READING; * Communique [4] from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Plurinational State of Bolivia * FAO hails landmark UN resolution [5] that enshrines rights of peasants and rural workers * UN Human Rights Chief welcomes adoption [6] of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants * Declaration Represents Huge Advance for Human Rights, reports Common Dreams [7] [8] For more videos and reactions, visit our Facebook page [9] This UN Declaration can provide a global framework for national legislation and policies to: * better protect the rights of peasants - women and men - and improve livelihoods in rural areas * reinforce food sovereignty, the fight against climate change and the conservation of biodiversity * take actions to implement comprehensive agrarian reform and a better protection against land-grabbing * realise the right of peasants to conserve, use, exchange and sell their seeds * ensure remunerative prices for peasant production and rights for agricultural workers * recognise the rights of peasant women and bring about social justice for people of all origin, nationality, race, colour, descent. Sex, language, culture, marital status, property, disability, age, political or other opinion, religion, birth or economic, social or other status without discrimination RELATED ARTICLES FROM 2018 THIRD COMMITTEE APPROVED THE UN DECLARATION IN NOVEMBER _The resolution was approved by 119 votes in favour, 7 votes against and 49 abstentions. It is a significant leap forward in a campaign led by La Via Campesina, the world's largest peasant movement supported by many organizations across the world, including FIAN and CETIM._. Read more [10] INFORMATION NOTE ON THE UN DECLARATION The UN Declaration was originally initiated by the international peasant movement La Vía Campesina (LVC) over 17 years ago, with other social movements, mainly supported by - FIAN International and CETIM (Centre Europe-Tiers Monde) within the UN. Read more ... [11] UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL PASSED A RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE DECLARATION IN SEPTEMBER _Declaration on the Rights of Peasants awaiting final voting and adoption_ The resolution was passed with 33 votes in favour, 11 abstentions and 3 against. Read more ... [12] A LIFE OF PEASANT DELEGATES IN GENEVA: UNDERSTANDING THE STRUGGLE Union of Agricultural Work Committees and Palestinian Peasants Movement denounced the continuous attacks of Israeli Occupation Naval forces against the Palestinian fishermen while fishing within the allowed fishing zone. Read more ... [13] PEASANT VOICES Peasant leaders and farmers' representatives from across the continents react to the news of adoption and explains why the struggle in their territories will gather more strength now. [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] YOU ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE AUTONOMY OF OUR MOVEMENT ------------------------- As a supporter who has contributed financial resources to La Via Campesina, and as an activist who joins us on the streets and in the fields, your support is always welcome and put to good use. You can renew your contribution to La Via Campesina by clicking here [1]. 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Global Compact for Migration is more of the same: migrants as cheap labour, criminalised for simply being migrants
by La Via Campesina 15 Dec '18

15 Dec '18

GLOBAL COMPACT FOR MIGRATION (GCM) DOES NOT REPRESENT A CHANGE IN THE CURRENT OFFENSIVE AGAINST MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES : LA VIA CAMPESINA At the PEOPLE'S SUMMIT FOR A GLOBAL PACT OF SOLIDARITY WITH MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES, held in Marrakech December 8th and 9th of 2018, hosted by La Via Campesina and its member organisations of the Middle East and North Africa (MeNa) Process, the global peasant movement and its allies have issued a scathing critique of the Global Compact on Migration and rejected it. The Agreement on an International Pact of Solidarity and Unity Of Action [1] For The Full Rights Of All Migrants And Refugees, that was issued at the People's Summit reads; "In this summit, we have concluded that the Global Compact for Migration (GCM) does not represent a change in the anti-migrant policies and current offensive against migrants and refugees being waged by many States, especially of the North. The GCM is more of the same: migrants as cheap labour, criminalised for simply being migrants. Analysing it further, we consider the GCM a step backwards with respect to human rights and the protection of migrants and our families as established in past International Conventions approved by the United Nations and other institutions such as the International Labour Organisation (ILO). While it is true that some countries have decided not to sign the GCM, this is not the result of their is agreement with the agreement which represent a step backward regarding migrant rights. Their disagreement is motivated by a refusal of any multi-lateral engagement on migration. Those state have clearly stated their anti-migrant position. The GCM proposes to discipline and organise migration to serve the interests of States and their true owners, transnational corporations and financial capital. Other than a few apparent mentions of migrants, human rights are left beneath security concerns of states and economies. For the above reasons, we express our public rejection of the Global Compact for Migration and place in the hands of social movements, collectives for the protection of migrants' human rights, progressive States and civil society, our alternative that brings together the spirit, conclusions and recommendations of our Summit." Download the Complete Agreement [2] Links: ------ [1] https://viacampesina.org/en/global-compact-for-migration-gcm-does-not-repre… [2] https://viacampesina.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/12/EN-AGREEMENT…

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Nyéléni Newsletter | Food Sovereignty at the rural-urban interface
by La Via Campesina 11 Dec '18

11 Dec '18

NYÉLÉNI NEWSLETTER: FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AT THE RURAL – URBAN INTERFACE The rural-urban interface is a complex social space where politics and culture are in constant flux. It can also be a physical place, where the wealth and resources of villages, towns, peri-urban suburbs, and suburbanized rural areas are in dispute. Taken globally, it is a vast territory with potential to grow food sovereignty. This issue of the Nyéléni Newsletter addresses the challenges and opportunities of building food sovereignty in peri-urban areas, and the ways that the producers and consumers of urban and rural communities form alliances to transform the food system. Click here to download the English edition [1] Links: ------ [1] http://www.nyeleni.org/ccount/click.php?id=130

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New “genome-editing” techniques generate even more risks to biodiversity
by La Via Campesina 05 Dec '18

05 Dec '18

THE BIOTECH INDUSTRY IS TRYING TO BLOCK THE UN CONFERENCE ON BIODIVERSITY, BUT IT WON'T BLOCK FARMERS Despite lengthy negotiations, the 14th Conference of Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) ended on 29 November in Sharm El Sheickh (Egypt), leaving the door open to contamination and appropriation of all natural biodiversity and the food chain through patents from the biotech industry. The "exterminating" GMOs developed using "gene drive" techniques aim at the permanent eradication of entire species: animals, plants or microbial. Once dispersed, no border can stop them until they have completed their deadly mission. The promises to eliminate in this way any vector of diseases such as malaria mosquitoes are lies: nature abhors the void and may even reveal new and even more aggressive vectors. Progressive governments have not been able to obtain the long-awaited moratorium to prohibit the spread of these chimeras. The Convention only recommends precautions: risk assessment, consultation with indigenous or local populations, but above all not with all interested citizens who could support them against the promoters of the "gene drives". By reducing the genetic modifications thus obtained to a simple dematerialized "information" to fit into computer algorithms, the industry extends the scope of its patents to all plants, animals or microorganisms that naturally contain the same "information". The patent on the genetic information associated with genes that accelerate the growth of chickens thus allows the appropriation of all naturally fast growing chickens! We had hoped that this genetic information would be verified so that we could ban these patents on "native genes". By multiplying uncontrollable artificial genetic modifications, the new "genome-editing" techniques generate even more risks to biodiversity, health and the environment than transgenic GMOs, while violating the very principles of the CBD. They were expected to be regulated in the same way as recently decided by the Supreme Court of the European Union. The Convention confined itself to referring these two issues to new expert committees. In the meantime, industry can continue to release its new patented GMOs, even in countries that reject them, but will not be informed in the absence of binding international standards. Delegates of the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) and La Via Campesina, who participated in Sharm El Sheikh, strongly denounce the arrogance of a handful of rich countries that block all reasonable decisions and the hidden tricks of industry that has corrupted some representatives of developing countries to create the illusion of meaningful support for their new patented chimeras. Until stronger international decisions are taken, it is up to each country now to oppose all patented GMOs, whatever they may be. The millions of farmers in La Via Campesina, as well as all IPC organizations, will work with their many civil society allies to do so. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Antonio Gonzalez (ES) - atunkuljay(a)gmail.com Guy Kastler (FR) - guy.kastler(a)wanadoo.fr Marciano da Silva (ES) - marcianotol71(a)yahoo.com.br Genevieve Lalumiére (FR-EN) - genevieve.lalumiere(a)gmail.com https://viacampesina.org/en/the-biotech-industry-is-trying-to-block-the-un-…

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