Press Kit - 8th International Conference, La Via Campesina
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THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF LA VIA CAMPESINA IS SCHEDULED TO
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If you are a journalist covering food, agriculture, climate justice and
related issues, our conference offers an opportunity to understand the
latest developments, debates and practices in over 80 countries around
the world. Here, you will discover a diverse set of peasant-perspectives
and analyses of the global politics of food production and consumption.
You will also witness a wide range of initiatives in the field of
peasant agroecology and diverse models of food production.
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ACT NOW FOR PALESTINE! EVERY ACTION COUNTS! > International petition+webinar
by La Via Campesina
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ACT NOW FOR PALESTINE! EVERY ACTION COUNTS!
*Here below is the latest PETITION issued by La Via Campesina to Stop
the Genocide War Committed by Israeli occupation against Palestinians
and to safeguard civilians in the Gaza Strip. Every action counts in
this moment. We request all our members, allies and friends to read the
PETITION, SIGN and email it to the concerned departments in your
government, Members of Parliament as well as the UN Secretary-General
calling upon all of them to act in the interest of humanity.*
*Also, join the webinar to listen, learn and act from an informed
position !*
*“Live from Palestine: Testimonial Teach-In"* is a timely and
necessary webinar organized by La Via Campesina and allies to
provide organizations and individuals the opportunity to listen
to testimonials from Palestine to fill the information gaps and,
of course, to act urgently
*Guest Speakers in Palestine include: *
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Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC)
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Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network - Friends of Earth Palestine
(PENGON)
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Palestine Medical Relief Society (PMRS)
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Stop the Wall Coalition
*Who can attend:* Everyone interested to know better the Palestinian
situation
*Zoom:* https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85041173315
*Date:* Sunday, 29 October 2023
*Time: *5 PM Palestine time (Click here to find your local for webinar
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*_HERE IS THE INTERNATIONAL PETITION FROM LA VIA CAMPESINA_*:
*Given the principles of international human rights law, the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, and the Geneva Conventions, we, La Via
Campesina (LVC), a global peasant movement, voice our profound concern
regarding the genocide war committed by the Israeli occupation in Gaza.*
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Since October 7th, Israel has been waging a genocide war against the
Palestinian people. This relentless aggression has tragically claimed
the lives of nearly 4,000 Palestinian civilians and left over 13,000
injured, with a staggering 65% of the casualties being women and
children. This assault has caused extensive destruction, obliterating,
or damaging around 70,000 homes and numerous public and private structures.
As a result, close to a million Palestinians have been internally
displaced within the Gaza Strip. Simultaneously, the Israeli occupation
has imposed an unparalleled blockade on the Gaza Strip, inhabited by 2.5
million Palestinians. This embargo includes prohibiting the entry of
food, cutting off water and electricity supplies, and restricting
movement throughout the region.
*Considering the aforementioned, we, the undersigned, call for the
following immediate actions:*
* *Unconditional Cessation of Hostilities*: An immediate and
unconditional cessation of ongoing hostilities and acts of violence
against civilians.
* *Safe Passage and Border Openings*: The establishment of safe
corridors and the opening of all border crossings to facilitate the
swift entry of medical aid, and food, and to expediently transport
the injured for urgent medical care.
* *Accountability for War Crimes*: Prosecution of those responsible
for war crimes before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in line
with its mandate and international law.
* *Formation of International Investigative Committees*: Establishment
of international committees to investigate and report on the
unprecedented crimes committed during this conflict. In advocating
for these actions, we stand in solidarity with all civilians caught
in the crossfire and seek justice, peace, and the upholding of
fundamental human rights.
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*If you agree with these demands, we urge you to send an email to the UN
Secretary General António Guterres, reiterating these demands: CLICK TO
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LVC Newsletter| Peasant Struggles | September - October 2023
by La Via Campesina
Highlights from www.viacampesina.org [1]
EDITION: SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2023
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La Via Campesina's 'PEASANT STRUGGLES' brings to you a monthly synthesis
of articles and videos from our website and multimedia library.
Read, share and help us globalize the struggle!
Faced with global crises, we demand concrete actions from governments to
ensure Food Sovereignty for our Peoples and our Peasant Rights
This 16th of October, the International Day of Struggle for People's
Food Sovereignty, La Via Campesina, once again takes to the streets,
flood social media platforms, and occupy public squares and spaces. Our
aim is to hold those responsible for the severe food crisis humanity is
facing accountable. Our struggle for peoples' sovereignty over their
food and our efforts to confront those who deprive them of it remains a
top priority for La Via Campesina. READ MORE [3]
Gaza - Defending the Rights and Dignity Amidst Escalating Military
Aggression and Conflict
We are deeply shocked and outraged by the escalation of crimes against
humanity committed by the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip and the
West Bank. As a global peasant movement, we firmly reject violence
against civilians and military conflict to resolve disputes. Read more
[4]
Victory! UN Human Rights Council Adopts Resolution to Advance Peasants'
Rights Worldwide
In its 54th session, an overwhelming majority of member states of the
United Nations Human Rights Council took a historic step by voting in
favor of a resolution aimed at further implementing the UN Declaration
on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas
(UNDROP). Read more [5]
Urgent Israel deprives Gaza of water, manufactures catastrophe
The deprivation of water is not just a violation of basic human rights
but also a testament to the ongoing oppression faced by the Palestinian
people. Gaza main freshwater source cannot meet daily demands because of
high salinity and pollution most of water is undrinkable. Read more [6]
UAWC condemns Israel's use of starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza
OCHA reports that the assaults have disrupted the UNRWA food operation,
impacting at least 112,759 families. The poultry and livestock sectors
are on the brink of collapse due to the severe shortage of fodder,
endangering the livelihoods of more than 1,000 herders and affecting
over 10,000 producers. Read more [7]
Declaration of Solidarity: Stop Neocolonialism! No to Foreign
Interventions in Haiti
On October 2, 2023, during the United Nations Security Council meeting
in New York, the United States and Ecuador succeeded in passing a
resolution authorizing the deployment of a multinational force in Haiti.
Read more [8]
CETIM and LVC Express Concern Over Foreign Intervention in Haiti and
Demand Human Rights Protection
On the 2nd of October 2023, the UN Security Council, approved the
deployment of an international security force to supposedly fight gang
violence and restore security. Read more [9]
Karnataka, India: Farmers hold a forum on trade, climate and seed
issues
The participants were of the opinion that a fair remunerative price is
central to finding a solution to the ongoing farm crisis in the country.
Read more [10]
6th International Women's Assembly of La Via Campesina: Official Poster
is now available!
The International Women's Assemblies have been a very important
collective and strategic construction in these 30 years of La Via
Campesina. The 6th International Women's Assembly will be held on the
2nd of December, ... Read more [11]
An opportunity for rural struggles: UNDROP follow-up mechanism before
the Human Rights Council
Time has come for the implementation of UNDROP to be tackled at the
international level. It is in this context that La Via Campesina (LVC)
and its allies, advocate for the creation of an international follow-up
mechanisms on peasants' rights, in the form of a UN Special procedure.
Read more [12]
Press Release: La Via Campesina is determined to build an alternative
framework for global trade in agriculture - written by the peasants, for
the people
La Via Campesina commemorates the International Day of Action Against
the WTO and Free Trade agreements and announces that the endeavor to
construct an alternative trade framework ... Read more [13]
Spain: We mobilize to reject industrial agriculture and agribusiness
promoted by the Meeting of EU Ministers of Agriculture
From 31 August to 3 September 2023, 150 activists from various
organisations from different parts of Spain gathered in Hornachuelos
(Córdoba) in a camp dedicated to agroecology and food sovereignty, to
ratify the need to break with the agro-industrial food model and system.
Read more [14]
South Korea : 1,000+ Peasant Women Demand Yoon Seok-yeol's Resignation
at First Post-COVID Conference
Over 1,000 peasant women gathered for the '2023 National Peasant Women's
Conference' organized by the Korean Women Peasants Association, wearing
white attire, urging the resignation of the Yoon Seok-yeol government,
which implements policies harmful to agriculture and farmers. Read more
[15]
France: Victory in Court! 15 Mega-Basin Projects Cancelled!
The Confédération Paysanne welcomes the decision of the Administrative
Court of Poitiers, which ruled on two appeals and canceled the project
to create 15 mega-basins: nine planned in the Aume-Couture basin and six
in the Pallu sub-basin. Read more [16]
Brazil: The failure of Parliamentary Inquiry Commission against the
Landless Workers Movement
In Brazil, the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission against the Landless
Rural Workers Movement (MST) has concluded its work and did not bring
forward any real problems. Read more [17]
La Via Campesina and CETIM denounce the sanctions against Niger at the
UN Human Rights Council
During the 54th session of the HRC, a biennial "Panel discussion on
unilateral coercive measures and human rights" was held in Geneva. LVC
member denounced the sanctions against Niger and its people ... Read
more [18]
Mayotte water crisis: MODEF calls on France to take action
Mayotte is experiencing a severe water crisis as water sources run dry
and the distribution network in a poor state requiring urgent attention.
Rains to replenish the sources not expected until November. Water cuts
are common. In the face of this crisis MODEF has sent an urgent appeal
to the French government to take immediate action to address this
looming humanitarian, health, economic and food crisis. Read more [19]
La Via Campesina Stands with Morocco in the Wake of Catastrophic
Earthquake
The numbers speak of the tragedy - over 2497 of our comrades have passed
on, and 3,000 more are injured, many critically. La Via Campesina
extends its heartfelt solidarity to our brothers and sisters in Morocco
during these testing times. Read more [20]
Solidarity with the Libyan People and their Peasants in the aftermath
of Storm Daniel
On September 10, 2023, the city of Derna in Libya, along with
neighboring villages and towns, witnessed the devastating impact of
Storm Daniel. This unprecedented natural disaster inflicted profound
destruction on Libya, leaving a trail of unprecedented devastation in
its wake. Read more [21]
FOR MORE ARTICLES FROM SEPTEMBER 2023 CLICK HERE [22]
FOR MORE ARTICLES FROM OCTOBER 2023 CLICK HERE [23]
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8th International Conference: Official Song is out! "Back to the
Countryside" [25]
We're thrilled to unveil our official song for the 8th International
Conference, igniting passion and unity in our incredible peasant
movement. The global peasant movement La Vía Campesina convenes this
conference in Bogotá, Colombia, from 1 to 8 December 2023, under the
slogan "Faced with global crises, we build food sovereignty to ensure a
future for humanity".
Lyrics of the song available in English, French Spanish, and Arabic
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Press Release for the International Day of Action for Peoples’ Food Sovereignty against Transnational Corporations – October 16, 2023
by La Via Campesina
FACED WITH GLOBAL CRISES, WE DEMAND CONCRETE ACTIONS FROM GOVERNMENTS TO
ENSURE FOOD SOVEREIGNTY FOR OUR PEOPLES AND OUR PEASANT RIGHTS
_Press Release for the International Day of Action for Peoples' Food
Sovereignty against Transnational Corporations - October 16, 2023_
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On the 16th of October, as we commemorate the International Day of
Struggle for People's Food Sovereignty, we, La Via Campesina, the global
movement of peasants and rural communities, once again take to the
streets, flood social media platforms, and occupy public squares and
spaces [1]. Our aim is to hold those responsible for the severe food
crisis humanity is facing accountable. In today's world, wars continue
to rage destructively. A clear example is Israel's recent genocidal
strategy, which for 10 days has completely denied 2.5 million
Palestinians access to essential resources such as food, water and
electricity, [2] actions that undeniably constitute war crimes. Our
struggle for peoples' sovereignty over their food and our efforts to
confront those who deprive them of it remains a top priority for La Via
Campesina.
We denounce the World Food Forum organized by the Food and Agriculture
Organisation of the UN (FAO) this week in Rome and the ongoing
transnational corporations takeover of FAO.
We are highly concerned about the World Food Forum, which is especially
encouraging the action of global youth, linking them to new technologies
and innovation in the food systems promoted by agribusiness. We do not
need a reinvention of corporate power to solve world's hunger, we need
instead our governments to have autonomy to decide about their food. We
need our peasant rights to be respected and promoted.
It is we, the peasants, who are guaranteeing food for our peoples on a
daily basis, and yet we are also among the populations most affected by
these crises. Our lands, our water and our seeds continue to be grabbed
and owned by agribusiness transnationals. The climate crisis,
exacerbated by extractivism, is displacing millions of us and our
families, and hunger and malnutrition continue to increase globally. Our
peasant rights to a dignified life and social justice continue to be
violated. Our lives are at constant risk.
The call of the global peasant movement remains to return to the land,
to continue our ancestral legacy of healthy peasant production with
agroecological proposals and equitable participation. We aim to
integrate new generations, diversities, and alliances in our
territories.
This call for action, also want to highlight the process that social
movements have initiated towards building a Nyeleni Global Forum for
Food Sovereignty in 2025 [3]. At this point, we are engaged in a
collective effort to broaden and strengthen the struggle for food
sovereignty, by forming alliances with climate justice movements, labor
unions, feminist groups, and environmental organizations to foster
shared proposals for systemic change. Our upcoming 8th International
Conference [4] to be held in Colombia from December 1st to 8th will also
be a decisive space for convergence and mobilization.
This October, we will continue to negotiate for a binding treaty to
effectively challenge transnational corporate power and impunity.
Together with civil society, we are in a campaign to end the
human-rights violations that transnational corporations continue to do
with impunity on our lands and territories. From 23 to 27 of 2023, a
peasant delegation will participate in the 9th Session of the Open-Ended
Intergovernmental Working Group (OEIGWG), charged with elaborating a UN
Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations and Other Business
Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights (OEIGWG). Legal progress at the
international level would allow us to take transnational agribusiness
corporations to court whenever they violate our rights, just as they do
with our States when they fail to comply with their imposed norms.
A new achievement: UNDROP now has a Special Procedure at the United
Nations
Our current struggle for Food Sovereignty is making great progress in
the international legal framework. Since the adoption of the United
Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working
in Rural Areas - UNDROP, we have not stopped mobilizing for its
implementation at global, national, regional and local levels. When
COVID restrictions were lifted worldwide allowing a return to normal
life, LVC and our allies seized the moment to increase pressure for the
creation of a Special Procedure (specifically a UN Working Group) on
UNDROP at the UN Human Rights Council before the end of 2023.
And we have succeeded. The UN Working Group on UNDROP, adopted in a UN
Human Rights Council resolution this October 11, will be responsible for
monitoring and reporting on the implementation of the UNDROP, and for
providing support and technical assistance to countries to help them
better implement the Declaration. This UN Working Group will be very
useful to strengthen the promotion and protection of the rights of food
producers around the globe. There is no doubt that humanity can use this
mechanism to tackle the global crises we face, especially in rural
areas. This is a huge victory in our fight for Food Sovereignty.
Urgent actions to safeguarding Food Sovereignty and Human Rights:
* Immediate restoration of essential resources: We demand that Israel
immediately restore access to essential resources, including food,
water, and electricity, to the 2.5 million Palestinians in Gaza. The
denial of these basic necessities constitutes a violation of
international law and human rights. This request is also extended to all
peoples whose Food Sovereignty is being violated by the actions of other
States as a result of wars and conflicts like Haiti, Cuba, Niger, among
others.
* Binding Treaty Against Corporate Impunity: We call for the swift
finalization and adoption of a legally-binding treaty that holds
transnational corporations accountable for human rights violations.
Transnational agribusiness corporations must be held legally responsible
whenever they infringe upon our rights.
* Full Implementation and Monitoring of UNDROP: We urge the
international community to actively support and monitor the
implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of
Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP). The newly
established UN Working Group on UNDROP should be empowered to ensure
that the rights of food producers globally are promoted, protected, and
upheld.
Faced with global crises, we build food sovereignty to ensure a future
for humanity
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