Press releases

UN Summit on Food Systems: Statement of the social movements

PRESS RELEASE The UN Summit on Food Systems will be held this Thursday 23 September 2021 in New York. CETIM has repeatedly expressed its deep concerns about this Summit, which has been characterised by its opacity and by the capture of transnational agribusiness companies. Many rural social movements and other civil society organisations oppose this […]

Corporate capture of the UN Summit on Food Systems denounced at the UN

PRESS RELEASE Geneva, March 3, 2021: La Via Campesina and CETIM express their concerns about the corporate capture of agribusiness lobbies of the preparations for the UN Summit on Food Systems.

Systematic violence against peasant organizations in Colombia denounced at the UN

PRESS RELEASE Geneva, March 3rd, 2021 – “In Colombia, one social leader is killed every 41 hours”, denounce FENSUAGRO and the CETIM before the UN Human Rights Council.

Chevron’s Impunity in Ecuador: urgent Call from International Civil Society

In solidarity with tens of thousands of people affected by the biggest environmental disaster that has hit the Ecuadorian Amazon, more than 240 organizations, networks, movements, and unions –representing more than 285 million people internationally – are asking the government of Ecuador to appeal the arbitration award issued by the Dutch justice system in favor […]

India: unprecedented mobilization of workers and peasants

Press release Geneva, 15th December 2020 – Over the last two weeks, India has been the scene of an unprecedented general strike. According to some media reports, it is believed to be the largest mobilization in the history of mankind: a human river of 250 million people, workers and peasants, hand in hand, marching […]

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