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(Harare, December 3, 2019) During the VI International Conference of “La Vía Campesina” held in Indonesia 6 years ago, the peasant movement took up the Campaign in defense of life and against Agrotoxics, which seeks to denounce the close connection between the use of agrotoxics, the intervention (…)
(Harare, November 19, 2019) From 25 to 30 November 2019, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, La Via Campesina is calling upon its members and allies to carry out mobilizations and actions to strengthen our collective struggle for a conscious and free society, (…)
(Harare, April 17th, 2019) 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 (…)
(Harare, 10th April 2018) : This 17th April, on the International Day of Peasants’ Struggles, La Via Campesina recalls the massacre of the 19 landless peasants, murdered by agribusiness (#AgroMata).
United in courage and rebellion, we call on our member organisations, allies, friends and (…)
In preparation for the fifth session of the Open Ended Intergovernmental Working Group (OEIGWG) which will be held from 9-13 April in Geneva, indigenous peoples and support groups came together in Jakarta from 27-29 March 2018 for a three-day Regional Consultation, Training, and Meeting of La Via Campesina Collective on Human Rights.
Jakarta, Indonesia—Peasants, family farmers, indigenous peoples and support groups came together in Jakarta from 27-29 March 2018 for a three-day Regional (...)
Forest peoples affected by plantations urge EU to enact ban despite diplomatic opposition
If European nations are to fulfil forest protection goals, they must ban the use of palm oil for biofuel and tighten oversight of supply chains, a delegation of forest peoples told parliamentarians this (…)
“We feed our peoples and build the movement to change the world” Euskal Herria – Basque Country, 16 to 24 July, 2017
Delegates of La Via Campesina, representing our organizations and movements, are gathered in the Basque Country to celebrate our 7th International Conference from the 16th to (…)
“A really important part of being women in La Vía Campesina is to identify ourselves and our various struggles” emphasized speakers at the start of the V Women’s Assembly taking place in Basque Country on 17 and 18 July 2017. The peasant women highlighted various aspects of this identity, (…)
DECLARATION
We, the women of more than 70 countries, representatives of our movements, meeting for our V Women’s Assembly, in the framework of the VII International Conference of La Via Campesina, address all women, peasant movements and popular movements in general, the following declaration: (…)
We the men, women, and youth of La Vía Campesina, salute the people of Cuba during their time of national mourning over the death of Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz, historic leader of the Cuban Revolution and an inspiration for struggles of emancipation of poor people of the world, from imperialism (…)
On September the 10th, the International Day of Action Against WTO, La Via Campesina, the International Peasant Movement that brings together over 200 million peasants from 164 member organisations in 73 countries, commemorates the death of Lee Kyung Hae and continues to struggle to END WTO. (…)
Between 18th and 20th August, La Via Campesina held a Conference on Human Rights at the Florestan Fernandes National School (Guararema, São Paulo) in which people’s lawyers, rural movements and organisations discussed the criminalisation of the worldwide struggle borne by social movements. They (…)
17 April : Day of Peasant’s Struggle
International Conference of Agrarian Reform: Marabá Declaration
Who are we? People who struggle for territory
(Marabá, April 17 2016) We are more than 130 representatives of La Via Campesina member organizations and allies from four continents, 10 (…)
(Harare, 15 April 2016): On April 17, The International Day of Peasant’s Struggle - millions of peasants and their allies – women and men – around the world are uniting in action to commemorate the massacre of 19 landless farmers in 1996 in Brazil and to continue the struggle for land and (…)
Declaration against the criminalisation, persecution and judicialization of the struggle for the defence of life, rights, land, water, seeds and mother earth
Marabá, 15 April 2016
From 13 to 17 April 2016, in Marabá, Pará, Brazil, more than 130 delegates from 28 countries around the world (…)
(Harare, March 8th, 2016) Today, International Women’s Day, La Via Campesina is calling for action against capitalist violence all over the world. Capitalist violence is not only the violence that is directly inflicted upon women; it is also an integral part of a social context of exploitation (…)
Trade ministers from around the world are concluding a contentious week of negotiations in Nairobi, Kenya under the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Doha Development Round.
Trade ministers from around the world are concluding a contentious week of negotiations in Nairobi, Kenya under the (…)
Nairobi - Less than a kilometer away from the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) in Nairobi where the 10th Ministerial Conference started on Tuesday, 15th December, Via Campesina farmers from Asia, Africa, Europe, and Americas also began their two-day (15th and 16th December) (…)
(Vienna, Austria, November 19, 2015) Violence is not always obvious. The traditional structures of power and possession on farms in Austria tend to harm womens’ personal, economic and political rights. Many women suffering from economic dependency and oppression are not aware that they are (…)
La Via Campesina Press Release
(Harare, October 15, 2015) After a week of arduous debates at the FAO headquarters in Rome, on the 9th of October, The Governing Body of the International Seed Treaty in its sixth session had to choose between plague and cholera: to accept as fait accompli its (…)
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