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Global Compact for Migration does not represent a change in the offensive against migrants and refugees

Via Campesina — 2018-12-18T07:42:10Z

At the People's Summit for a Global Pact of Solidarity with Migrants and Refugees, held in Marrakech December 8th and 9th of 2018, hosted by La Via Campesina and its member organisations of the Middle East and North Africa (MeNa) Process, the global peasant movement and its allies have issued a scathing critique of the Global Compact on Migration and rejected it.

- News from around the world / Migration

The people of the world confront the advance of capitalism: Rio +20 and beyond

Via Campesina — 2012-06-10T08:44:16Z

Governments from all over the world will meet in RÃo de Janeiro, Brasil from June 20-22 2012, to supposedly commemorate 20 years since the “Earth Summit”, the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development, that established for the first time a global agenda for “sustainable development”. During this summit, in 1992, three international conventions were adopted: the Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, and the Convention to Fight Desertification. Each of these promised to initiate a series of actions destined to protect the planet and all of the life on it, and to allow all human beings to enjoy a life of dignity.

- IV449 - June 2012 / Ecology and the Environment

International campaign of struggles: Peoples of the World against the Commodification of Nature

Via Campesina — 2012-05-17T09:00:19Z

La Via Campesina calls on all the peasant organizations of the world and their allies to organize actions in the month of June

- News from around the world / Brazil, Ecology and the Environment, Global Justice

Land grabbing shows the urgent need to protect peasants' rights

Via Campesina — 2012-03-21T08:23:12Z

It's a red alert now.The government of Saudi Arabia currently owns 1.6 million hectares (ha) of land in Sudan and Indonesia. In Madagascar around 1.3 million ha were leased, bought or transferred to private corporations of South Korea.

- IV446 - March 2012 / Ecology and the Environment

Call to action – Reclaiming our future: Rio +20 and Beyond

Via Campesina — 2012-02-27T09:17:30Z

On 20-22 June 2012, governments from around the world will gather in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to commemorate 20 years of the “Earth Summit”, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) that first established a global agenda for “sustainable development”. During the 1992 summit, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CDB), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and the Convention to Combat Desertification, were all adopted. The Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) was also established to ensure effective follow-up of the UNCED “Earth Summit.”

- IV445 - February 2012 / Ecology and the Environment

The fight against climate change is a fight against neoliberal capitalism, landlessness, dispossession, hunger, poverty and the re-colonization of the territories of the people's of Africa and the global South”

Via Campesina — 2011-12-27T18:41:32Z

As the Assembly of the Oppressed we are gathered here to demand the transformation of the entire neo liberal capitalist system. The fight against climate change is a fight against neoliberal capitalism, landlessness, dispossession, hunger, poverty and the re-colonization of the territories of the people's of Africa and the global South. We are here to declare that direct action is the only weapon of the oppressed people of the world to end all forms of oppression in the world.

- IV443 - December 2011 / Ecology and the Environment, South Africa, Climate

Support the Arab peoples in struggle – No to the bombardment of Libya!

Via Campesina — 2011-03-30T14:45:21Z

From Tunisia and Egypt, to the Yemen and Syria, passing through Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, the people are rising up en masse to bring down authoritarian dictatorial regimes. For more than a month now, hundreds of thousands of Libyans peacefully have been taking to the streets calling for the end of the Gaddafi regime.

- Problems of the Arab and Middle East regions / Libya, Arab Revolutions, Libya NFZ

Bali Seed Declaration

Via Campesina — 2011-03-20T05:39:25Z

Farmers throughout the world are the victims of a war for control over seeds. Our agricultural systems are threatened by industries that seek to control our seeds by all available means. The outcome of this war will determine the future of humanity, as all of us depend on seeds for our daily food.

- IV434 - March 2011 / Ecology and the Environment, Global Justice

Launch of Via Campesina campaign against violence against women in Africa

Via Campesina — 2011-03-07T21:35:02Z

At the 2011 World Social Forum held in Dakar, we, the African peasant organisations members of la VÃa Campesina, have decided to launch and communicate on behalf of our continent the campaign of our movement condemning violence against women, a campaign which was officially launched on an international scale at our fifth international conference in Maputo, in 2008.

- IV434 - March 2011 / Women, Africa, Global Justice

Thousands of Cancuns for climate justice!

Via Campesina — 2010-09-06T09:38:42Z

An appeal from La Via Campesina, the international movement of peasants, small- and medium-sized producers, landless, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural workers:

- IV428 - September 2010 / Ecology and the Environment, Mexico, Social Forum, Climate