«Il n‘y a pas un monde développé et un monde sous-développé, mais un seul monde mal développé»
PRESS RELEASE – La Via Campesina, CETIM, FIAN International Bagnolet, Geneva. In October 2023, during its 54th session, the UN Human Rights Council adopted resolution 54/11, establishing a new Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas, comprising five experts from the five UN regions.
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 55th session The country is faced with a social structure based on the power of criminal “gangs”. Since the 1980s, these armed groups have been instrumentalised by the political powers. Read the statement
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On Thursday March 14, 2024, a conference “Anticolonial struggles in the Global South: A Peasant Perspective” organized by CETIM, La Via Campesina (LVC), Uniterre, Le Silure, FIAN International/FIAN Switzerland and the Movement for Peasant and Citizen Agriculture (MAPC), was held in Geneva. This conference was organised on the occasion of the visit of an LVC […]
Continue readingOnline – Wednesdey April 24th 12-2pm UTC Join us to discuss how to use this new lever in the struggle for Peasants’ Rights with elected experts from the Working Group and representatives from rural movements. Practical information The webinar is Wednesday April 24th, 12-2pm UTC, to see at what time the webinar will be on […]
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Online – Wednesdey April 24th 12-2pm UTC For International Peasants’Day (April 17th), Defending Peasants’ Rights and La Via Campesina invite you to their webinar dedicated to the new UN Human Rights Council Working Group on the UNDROP. The Human Rights Council created the Working Group in October of last year, and its members will soon […]
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CETIM supports La Via Campesina’s call to action “On April 17, we mark the International Day of Peasant Struggles, our annual action day that brings us together to commemorate the Eldorado do Carajás* massacre in 1996 and to honor the resistance of peasants worldwide who persist in their struggle for social justice and dignity.
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Quito, Geneva, 25 March 2024 – CETIM1 and UDAPT (Unión de Afectados y Afectadas por las Operaciones Petroleras de Texaco) submitted a written statement to the 55th session of the UN Human Rights Council on the alarming deterioration of human rights in Ecuador. One of the safest countries in Latin America until 2017, by 2024 […]
Continue readingThis year in Palestine, Land Day falls on the 175th day of Israel’s genocidal campaign against Gaza. For 48 years, Palestinians around the world have commemorated Land Day in remembrance of 30 March 1976. The day when the Palestinian community in Israel revolted against the Israeli government, following the publication of a plan to expropriate […]
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The Union of Agricultural Work Committees (a Palestinian peasant organisation and member of La Via Campesina), CETIM and FIAN International conducted a week of advocacy in support of the Palestinian people’s struggle against Israeli colonialist and genocidal oppression. This campaign took place from 5 to 11 March 2024, on the occasion of the 55th session […]
Continue readingHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL 55th session (26 February – 5 April 2024) Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Yasmeen El-Hasan, from the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC Palestine), makes a horrifying assessment of the situation in Gaza, stating that the Palestinians who have not died because of the bombs will […]
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