Via Campesina E-newsletter, April 2019
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#17April: Around the world
This April, scores of mobilisations and demonstrations around the world called for an urgent implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants by ushering in agrarian reform.

This article looks at the highlights of these direct actions and demonstrations that took place during the month. Read More
 

OTHER NEWS FROM APRIL 2019
We, the youth of La Via Campesina, gathered in Thiès, Senegal, from 25-28 April, express our solidarity with the peasant youth of all those peoples who are being attacked by capitalism, imperial power, agribusiness and transnationals, and particularly with the youth of Palestine, Morocco, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Venezuela and Mozambique.

Read the Thiès Declaration
La Vía Campesina stood in support of the organized sectors of Colombian society that mobilised on the 25th of April, during a National Peasant, Indigenous, Afro-descendent, Worker and Popular Strike. 

Read our press release

Also Read: 
"The only struggle that is lost is that which is abandoned",
  Final Declaration from the III Solidarity Mission to Colombia
Global Network against Corporate Impunity condemns the arrest of Julian Assange. The Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity expresses its deepest concern at the arrest of Julian Assange on April 11, 2019, at the Embassy of Ecuador in London and calls on the UK government to demand his freedom and non-extradition to the United States. 

Read the statement
Decade of Family Farming: 'Peasant agriculture must be the focus', says Via Campesina in Derio

Read the full text of the intervention made by Joan Brady, the International Coordination Committee member of La Via Campesina, during the closing session of the VI Global Conference on Family Farming, March 2019, Derio.
 

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