(Caracas, Friday 31 January 2020) The delegation of La Via Campesina composed of representatives from Europe, North America, South America and Central America together with popular journalists from Africa and South America, announce to the national and international community that we have concluded the First International Solidarity Mission in Venezuela, carried out from 20 to…
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La Via Campesina in Venezuela: A Mission for the Brotherhood, Solidarity and Truth of the People
La Via Campesina Overthrowing the Bolivarian Revolution is one of the US government’s plans to regain its control, dominance and oppression of Latin America. Today, Venezuela is the target of a hybrid and multidimensional (economic, financial, diplomatic, media and military) aggression, which is seriously impacting the life of the country and its people. This offensive…
Brazil: MST in Paraná Mobilizes for Land, Life and Dignity
Peoples Dispatch Ratinho Junior, No more violence! Photo: MST Hundreds of landless rural workers are participating in the “Peasant Resistance Vigil: for land, life and dignity” in Cascavel in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná. The vigil, which began on December 28, 2019, is in defense of the land where over 200 landless families live…
Peoples Mobilization: Crucial Negotiations in Geneva for a Globally Binding Treaty on TNCs
Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity Historic process continues at the UN: This week states enter substantive negotiations of the text of a binding treaty on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights. PRESS RELEASE: 14 October 2019, Geneva: The United Nations (UN) Inter-governmental Working…
João Pedro Stedile: With No Bedrock Support or Project, Bolsonaro Becomes More Isolated
Emilly Dulce Brazilian landless workers’ leader argues that the Brazilian government’s contradictions are becoming increasingly clear Jair Bolsonaro’s approval ratings, recent polls show, have been on the slide since he took office, in January, and should continue to drop and make him increasingly isolated, as the president of Brazil has not clearly presented a project…
La Via Campesina in New York: “it is Now Urgent to Put Human Rights and Nature Above Profit”
During the UN – United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York, La Via Campesina made a presentation today to declare peasant agriculture as a real solution to the food and climate crisis facing the planet. Paula Gioia, on behalf of La Via Campesina, said, “It is now urgent to put humanity and nature before…
2019 Will Be a Decisive Year for the Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights
Neoliberal globalization has opened the doors for the savage exploitation of the world by the big economic powers. Megaprojects, agribusiness and militarization, among other processes, express a patriarchal, neoliberal and racist system that amounts to an assault on life as such. As a result, peoples’ rights have been systematically violated, the Earth and its resources…
USMCA Pits Rural People in Each Country Against One Another
Numerous sections of the [US-Mexico-Canada] agreement propose trade policy changes that will worsen the social, economic, and environmental crises facing rural communities across North America. Many of problem areas in the agreement include: the privileging of corporate interests over those of laborers and family farmers; the focused attempt to attack Mexico’s ability to protect its…
Criminalization and Judicialization of the Peasant People
Ketsy Medina Sifontes On August 22 of this year, around eight in the morning, Paula Guillermina Lovera, 42 years old, and her grandson, 8 years old, were in their house located in Las Ventanas, in the municipality of San Gerónimo de Guayabal, Guárico state, when people dressed in civilian clothes, verbally identifying themselves as police…
Peasant Organisations from 18 African Countries Take Part in An Agroecology Encounter in Harare
The Encounter of Agroecology Schools of La Via Campesina Africa took place from 20-23 August in Harare, with the participation of 16 peasant organisations, from 18 countries across the Africa- continent. The exchange was meant to strengthen the common vision on the training of peasants in Peasant Agroecology as part of the defence of Food…
Via Campesina: Burning the Amazon is a Crime Against Humanity
La Via Campesina Wildfires become more common as the dry season approaches in the Amazon; ranchers and farmers use them to clear land for crops and pasture – Créditos: Reproduction Greenpeace – Daniel Beltra ” />Wildfires become more common as the dry season approaches in the Amazon; ranchers and farmers use them to clear land…
The Barinas Massacre: La Via Campesina Stands in Solidarity with Our CRBZ
La Via Campesina, the international peasant movement that brings together 200 million members in hundreds of social movements throughout Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas denounces to the entire world the BARINAS MASSACRE which took place 27 July 2019. In it, six militants of our movement in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, including a pregnant…
