Re: Publication of the “Revised Draft” for the negotiation of the “Legally Binding Instrument to Regulate, within the framework of International Human Rights, the activities of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and other Business Enterprises”. The member organisations of the Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity(Global Campaign), welcome the “Revised Draft”, published…
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The Political Declaration of the VII Congress of the CLOC LVC
Havana, 30 June 2019 Revolution is a sense of the historical moment, it is to change everything that must be changed, it is full equality and freedom, it is to be treated and to treat others as human beings, it is to emancipate ourselves and with our own efforts, it is to challenge powerful dominant…
CLOC-LVC: “With Feminism We Build Socialism”
In the framework of the VII Congress of the Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Organizaciones Campo (CLOC-LVC), the VI Assembly of Rural Women was inaugurated today. With a mysticism that remembered fighters committed to social transformation, such as Berta Cáceres from Honduras, Vilma Espín from Cuba, Francisca Carrasco from Costa Rica, Loiva Rubenich from Brazil, Mamá Tingó…
ECVC Jointly with 340+ Organisations Call on the EU to Immediately Halt Trade Negotiations with Brazil
June 18, 2019: In an open letter published today, ECVC jointly with 340 civil society organisations are demanding that the European Union immediately halt free trade agreement negotiations with the Mercosur bloc (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) on the grounds of deteriorating human rights and environmental conditions in Brazil. The letter is addressed to presidents…
Communiqué of La Via Campesina Expresses Solidarity with the Sudanese People
The undersigned, La Via Campesina – ARNA, follow with much concern and unease the events that occurred in Sudan, after the bloody repression in the peaceful popular sit-in in front of the headquarters of the Transitional Military Council on June 3, 2019, which left more than 100 victims, hundreds injured and a large number of…
The Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations (CLOC) at 25 Years
Osvaldo León In February 1994, in Lima (Perú), under the slogan “United in Defense of Life, Land, Work and Production” the Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations (CLOC) was officially established. Eighty-four (84) organizations from 18 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean came together for this historic moment. This became possible as a result…
Integral and Popular Agrarian Reform Will Be the Central Axis of the VII Cloc Congress
From June 25 to 30 of this year, the Latin American Coordination of Rural Organizations (CLOC – La Via Campesina), in its 25 years of history as a movement of continental articulation of rural organizations, peasants, indigenous peoples, artisanal fishermen, afrodescendant populations, rural workers, women and youth, will hold its VII Continental Congress at the…
The Present-Day Situation in Venezuela Through the Voice of the Peasants
WhyHunger and Kevin Rangel Last month, WhyHunger interviewed Kevin Rangel from the National Peasant Front Ezequiel Zamora, member of our ally global movement La Via Campesina International. The National Peasant Front is a social movement dedicated to advancing the rights of peasant communities through food sovereignty. With the legislative approval of a seed sovereignty law,…
“The Declaration on Peasants’ Rights Should Become a Political Tool for Agrarian Reform and Social Justice”
La Vía Campesina Today, April 17th, 2019, the International Day of Peasants’ Struggle, the member organisations of La Via Campesina are reaffirming the Declaration on Peasants’ Rights as a political tool to strengthen the global struggle for decent living and working conditions in rural areas. The Declaration should also be a tool for the worldwide…
“Declaration of Peasants’ Rights is a Substantive Part of Mobilizations Around the World.”
The challenge is to unite and build the global struggle Interview with Diego Montón, who is part of the National Indigenous Movement of Argentina, Cloc – Via Campesina and the International Collective of Peasant Rights of La Via Campesina. He talks about the scope of the Declaration of the Rights of Peasants in Peasants’ Struggles,…
“Democracy Has Been Hijacked in Guatemala”
Mundubat Daniel Pascual, Coordinator of the CUC. Photo: CLOC Vía Campesina In Guatemala, the Committee for Peasant Unity (CUC), an indigenous labor organization, has been working to create knowledge and understanding among social movements in order to free “democracy” hijacked by corruption and oligarchy. The response of neoliberalism has been savage repression, according to Daniel…
Brazil: Peasants Organize Protests to Demand Land Reform, Social Justice
Rute Pina Landless workers march in protest for land reform in 2015 / MST People’s movements, unions, and federations of rural workers are organizing a number of protests this month to demand public policies for rural areas. The demonstrations are dubbed “Red April” and take place every year, especially during the week of April 17th,…
