Such a treaty could enable Palestinians to hold transnational corporations accountable for their involvement in Israel’s apartheid regime Seven decades ago, on 10 December 1948, the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights –…
Today, 17 December 2018, the 73 Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 73) in New York adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas. Now that the declaration…
(via MST – Landless Workers Movement) Orlando and Rodrigo Celestiano were camp leaders, which suggests political motives for the crime. On the night of Saturday (12/8), two activists from the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) were assassinated…
On the night of December 8th we’re informed of the brutal killing of two comrades. Around seven o’clock at night four men invaded the encamped at the municipality of Alhandra in the state of Paraíba and killed two activists of…
A short documentary of the sad situation of the communities in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, affected by the gas exploration
We see it when the sun rises and sets; pink skies from toxic particles of pollution from burning coal. Everyday we have no choice but to breathe in polluted air which experts say is making us sick [1]. Private…
Next week, countries will gather in Katowice, Poland, for the latest round of UN climate negotiations – the so-called COP24. Their plan is to try to agree on how to implement the 2015 Paris Agreement. However, the Polish government…
It is with extreme sadness that we announce the passing away of our dear comrade Dr. Amit Sengupta, a beloved colleague, friend, mentor and activist. Amit passed away on 28 November 2018, in a swimming accident in Goa, India.…
Transnational corporations are running rampant across the world, and particularly in Africa, to extract natural resources through mining, intensive agriculture, large-scale fishing, or the expansion of oil and gas operations. All of this in the name of progress,…
Communique: Southern Africa Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power Johannesburg-November 23, 2018 Communities of Resistance! Sites of Hope and Peoples Sovereignty! Southern Africa Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power “Our first and most…
We, peasants’ movements and civil society organizations from Mozambique, Brazil and Japan, met in Tokyo, Japan, between the 20th and the 22nd of November 2018 for the 4th Triangular Peoples’ Conference against ProSAVANA. In the days leading up to the conference,…
PRESS RELEASE | LA VIA CAMPESINA 19 November. Monday, [NEW YORK] The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) of the UN General Assembly voted in favour of the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and…