La Via Campesina |e-newsletter| June-July 2019
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La Via Campesina | e-newsletter | June-July 2019
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UN DECADE OF FAMILY FARMING; PEASANTS VOICE THEIR HOPES AND CONCERNS
The Decade was officially launched at FAO headquarters in Rome on 29th
May 2019 and was preceded by sessions to exchange and discuss the
priorities to implement the global action plan, with the participation
of key stakeholders, including the International Planning Committee for
Food Sovereignty and La Via Campesina.
La Via Campesina, with a strong delegation of representatives from
several regions around the world, different agricultural activities and
battlefields for agroecology and food sovereignty, had an active
participation in the dialogues and shared its expectations, hopes and
concerns with regards to the Decade. Will this Decade simply be another
declaration of intent, adding to other ineffective instruments? How is
family farming defined? What is the role to be played by governments?
And where is the place for peasant agroecology?
The answers to these questions will be determining for the success of
the Decade.
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FEATURED ARTICLES
PEASANT'S RIGHTS DECLARATION ENRICHES THE HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM
On 28 September 2018, the Human Rights Council adopted the declaration,
which was voted in by a comfortable margin, and which represented,
without a doubt, an important step forward on the part of the human
rights system from a pluricultural and humanist perspective. Read more →
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SOUTH ASIAN PEASANT MOVEMENTS MEET IN KATHMANDU, NEPAL
Members of La Via Campesina from Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan,
and India took part in the 3-day long meeting making a collective
commitment to unify the struggles in the region to realize food
sovereignty and to also strengthen the solidarity across the region.
Read more → [5]
DECLARATIONS FROM THE VII CONGRESS OF THE CLOC LVC
In Havana, Cuba, 300 men and women delegates of peasant, indigenous,
afro-descendant, landless, artisan fishers, native peoples and rural men
and women workers, the youth and women from 30 countries in
representation of all of the regions of America, as well as delegates
from Via Campesina International, Africa, Asia, Europe and North
America, and over 50 international guests all met to hold the VII
Continental Congress of the CLOC Via Campesina.
Political Declaration of the VII Congress [6]
V Youth Assembly of the CLOC-LVC: Declaration [7]
VI Women Assembly of the CLOC-LVC: Declaration [8]
FORCEFUL MASS DISPLACEMENT AS A RESULT OF HOUSE DEMOLITIONS IN OCCUPIED
EAST JERUSALEM
The Israeli occupying authorities are accelerating illegal policies and
practices to forcibly transfer Palestinians out of Jerusalem.
Read more → [9]
PROTESTS IN EL PASO AGAINST BORDER PATROL FACILITIES, TREATMENT OF
MIGRANTS
"It's critical now," she said. "Children are being held in cages now.
Mothers are without their babies. Families are without their children.",
says Rosemary Rojas, president of the board of directors for the Border
Agricultural Workers Project (BAWP)
Read more → [10]
THE AGRARIAN ISSUE AND CURRENT CHALLENGES
Throughout history, the progressive transformation of agricultural
production has at its basis the struggle for land. This struggle aims to
introduce a radical change in the productive structure; as a
consequence, the agrarian issue is significant for the coexistence of
humanity and it was dealt with by the leaders of social struggle.
Read more → [11]
KOREAN FORUM OF RIGHTS OF PEASANTS
On May 24, KPL News and Nyeoreum Research Institute of Agriculture &
Peasant Policy, with the support of peasants movement in Korea including
Korean Peasant League (KPL), Korean Women Peasants Association (KWPA),
launched Forum of Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural
Areas in Korea.
Read more → [12]
La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa Youth Articulation
Statement
We, La Via Campesina Southern and Eastern Africa youth articulation
delegates from eight organizations (ESAFF Uganda, ZIMSOFF, Kenyan
Peasant League, COPACO, Landless People Movement, Agrarian Campaign for
Food Sovereignty, União Nacional de Camponeses [UNAC], MVIWATA) gathered
at Mutuko, Zimbabwe for the Youth training, are concerned about the
current precarious state of the youth in our region and the African
continent.
Read more → [13]
2019 WILL BE A DECISIVE YEAR FOR THE BINDING TREATY ON TRANSNATIONAL
CORPORATIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS, SAY CAMPAIGNERS
The Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate
Power and Stop Impunity (Global Campaign) has issued a call to mobilise
in protest against corporate power on October 12 across the planet and
to pressure governments to advance the Binding Treaty.
Read more → [14]
Mercosur: hypocrisy of the European Union
In the midst of a climate crisis, how can EU sign an agreement that
promotes a model of industrialization of agriculture instead of the
localised agricultural systems which completely flies in the face of the
objectives of the Paris agreement on climate change?, ECVC asks.
Read more → [15]
FEATURED PUBLICATION
LA VIA CAMPESINA: 2018 ANNUAL REPORT
The 2018 Annual Report highlights the selected activities and the
advances made during the year towards strengthening the international
movement.
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DECLARATIONS from VII Congress of CLOC LVC, Women's Assembly & Youth Assembly
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Political Declaration of the VII Congress of the CLOC LVC
In Havana, Cuba, on the 60th anniversary of signing of the Agrarian
Reform Law, 27 years after the foundation of the CLOC and 25 years after
its first Continental congress, 300 men and women delegates of peasant,
indigenous, afrodescendant, landless, artisan fishers, native peoples
and rural men and women workers, the youth and women from 30 countries
in representation of all of the regions of America, as well as delegates
from Via Campesina International, Africa, Asia, Europe and North
America, and over 50 international guests all met to hold the VII
Continental Congress of the CLOC Via Campesina.
Read the full text of the Declaration [1]
VI Women Assembly of the CLOC-LVC: Declaration
Ten years after the historical day when, in the Niceto Perez School of
the ANAP, CLOC-Vía Campesina declared that peasant men and women in
Latin America pave the way for socialism, women stood up and shouted
with all our strength that WITHOUT FEMINISM THERE IS NO SOCIALISM.
The VI Peasant Women Assembly was part of the VII Congress of the Latin
America Coordination of Peasant Organizations, CLOC-Via Campesina, which
took place in the municipality of Güira de Melena, province of Artemisa,
Cuba. It gathered together women delegates of our organizations in 21
countries, inspired by the historical breakthroughs of Cuban women and
the revolutionary spirit of Vilma Espin, Celia Sanchez and their people.
We met to continue walking down our historical path, the one that has
kept alive the resistance of women from the countryside in the face of
the patriarchal and capitalist system.
Read the full text of the Declaration [2]
V Youth Assembly of the CLOC-LVC: Declaration
On June 25th 2019 more than 100 men and women youth delegates from 19
countries in Latin America and the Caribbean met in Cuba for the V Youth
Assembly of the CLOC-LVC, under the motto "youth of the countryside,
youth of the city, let's struggle together for our ideals".
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