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Human Rights must prevail over corporate interests: La Via Campesina in Geneva
From 23 to 27 October, a delegation from La Via Campesina, comprising peasants from Asia, Africa, Americas and Europe, participated in the week-long mobilization of peoples, who were demanding a legally binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights. Read More |
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Let's not sweep Rights to Seeds of peasants under the carpet
La Via Campesina urges the ITPGRFA governing body to prohibit the patenting of genetic information – and of any other measure limiting the access and use of all plant genetic resources of the Multilateral System – as well as to fully implement peasants rights to save, use, exchange and sell seeds, as specified in the preamble and Article 9 of the Treaty. Read More |
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Fifth International Encounter of Migrations and Wage Work, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Coming in from across Mexico, the United States, Canada, Nicaragua, Colombia, Haiti, Italy, and Spain, participants discussed everything from rural-urban to international migration, repression against those who resist capitalist exclusion by moving from one place to another, and the role of social movements such as La Vía Campesina in building a larger movement for migrants' rights. Read More |
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In solidarity with all climate change affected communities of the world: La Via Campesina
We urgently call upon our allies, friends and social movements to galvanise their struggles towards a system change. We urgently need to mobilize together with the civil society to push for our true solutions based on food sovereignty and peasant agroecology. Read More |
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Affected from the world, unite!
MAB, a member of Via Campesina in Brazil and the Movimiento de Afectados por Represa in Latin America (MAR) had organised an International Seminar on Energy Transition for a Popular Energy Project, from October 6 to 8. Inspired from it, this article captures the constant violations of human rights and the exploitation of the affected populations. Read More |
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Indian farmers denounce UN Seed Treaty's attempts to hand over people's seed heritage to private companies
The Indian Coordination Committee of Farmers Movements (ICCFM) expressed concern over the proceedings of ITPGRFA in a letter submitted to the treaty's national focal point in India. Read More |
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La Via Campesina's African Continental Encounter of Agroecology schools
At Selingue, the site of the historic International Forum for Food Sovereignty (2007) and following up on the Forum for Agroecology (2015), La Via Campesina's International Center for Training in Peasant Agroecology and Nyéléni recently hosted the 2017 African Continental Encounter of Agroecology Schools and Training Processes aimed at strengthening our organizational capacity to advance peasant agroecology across the continent through popular education and training processes. Read More |
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Press Release: La Via Campesina responds to COP23 calling for Peasant Agroecology
La Via Campesina and their allies' proposals for addressing the climate crisis get to the root cause of the problem — corporate control over decision-making and the resulting processes of land and water grabbing, peasant criminalization and human rights abuses in the transnational supply chains used to produce food. Read More |
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"WTO, Out! Building Alternatives"
