IFFM team exposes decades of legalized landgrabbing in Bulukumba
PRESS RELEASE March 26, 2013 IFFM team exposes decades of legalized landgrabbing in Bulukumba Calls to give back the lands to the Indigenous Peoples Makassar, INDONESIA - An International Fact Finding Mission (IFFM) composed of 32 international, national and local participants from Cambodia, India, Philippines and Indonesia exposes decades of legalized land...
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IPA officially launch International Campaign
Advancing Peoples Movement For Sovereignty and Trade To Serve The Peoples! Junk WTO! Denpasar (22/3) Bali- Broad alliance of progressive mass organizations and civil society organizations in Indonesia called Indonesian Peoples Alliance (IPA) is calling mass organizations and international network of social movement in the world to campaign for peoples sovereignty...
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CPG STATEMENT ON GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS
CPG STATEMENT ON GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS (http://peoplesgoals.org/?p=433) Bali, Indonesia 22 March 2013 We, members of the Campaign for People’s Goals for Sustainable Development, coming fromgrassroots organizations, labour unions, social movements and non-governmental organizations, make the following statement on the occasion of the fourth and final meeting of the High-Level Panel on...
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Peasant groups hit World Bank for grabbing ancestral land in Panama
PRESS RELEASE March 8, 2013 Peasant groups hit World Bank for grabbing ancestral land in Panama Calls on the Sri Lankan government to immediately implement the court order allowing the Panama people to cultivate their land once again The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) and Movement for National Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR)...
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IFFM discovers impacts on land, livelihood and environment, calls for the tourism project in Panama to stop
Press Release 28th February 2013 IFFM discovers impacts on land, livelihood and ...
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Military questions International Fact Finding Mission, participants harassed and stopped from talking to locals
PRESS RELEASE 23 February 2013 Military questions International Fact Finding Mission, participants harassed and stopped from talking to locals Police questions participants of the IFFM in Panama, Sri Lanka and were stopped from interviewing locals. “We are not doing anything wrong, we are here in solidarity with the people of Panama...
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IFFM in defense of land and livelihood in Sri Lanka starts
PRESS RELEASE 23 February 2013 IFFM in defense of land and livelihood in Sri Lanka starts Thirty local and international participants heads to Panama village in Ampara District of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka in February 22 for the “International Fact Finding Mission (IFFM) in Defense of Land and Livelihood.“ The event is...
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Agartala Indigenous People's Consultation on Dams and Resources Protection in India
The indigenous peoples of Agartala in the North East region of India, met last February 10-11, 2013 to condemn the introduction of more than 200 mega dams and other unsustainable development policies and projects in the region without their free prior and informed consent. The consultation was organized by the...
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APC Calls for the Prosecution of Henry Sy for Landgrabbing
Press Release 8 February 2013 In ...
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Khangbor meet opposes oil exploration
IMPHAL, February 03, 2013 - A community level meeting held at Khangbor village under Tipaimukh sub-division has resolved that the joint efforts of the Government of India and Jubilant Oil and Gas Private Limited (JOGPL) to drill and explore petroleum from Manipur should be aborted immediately. The meeting held on January...
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OGONI PEOPLE SAY WE NEED OUR LAND AND WATER RESOURCES BACK, NOT CRUDE OIL!
Written by Shanthi Monday, 12 November 2012 17:30
As the International Community gathered to mark the World Food Day last October 16, 2012, the future and destiny of the over 1.2 million Ogoni people hangs in the balance as food crops and fishes do not grow and breed in the air but on land and water which they don’t have any more.
To the Ogoni, a distinct ethnic nationality in the oil rich but impoverished and heavily polluted Niger Delta region of Nigeria, the day was a celebration of what they prefer to call “World Foodless Day” and a day of hunger. Farmers, civil society actors, community leaders, women and youth groups across the six the Kingdoms of Ogoni met at Bori, the traditional Headquarters of the Ogoni people to deliberate on viable options to food sovereignty in a devastated and polluted environment like theirs.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 November 2012 09:51INTERNATIONAL PROBE ON MINING BARES FINDINGS
Written by Shanthi Monday, 12 November 2012 10:41
Negros, Philippines - The lead investigators of an 85-member strong International Fact-Finding and Environmental Mission (IFFEM) unveiled its research on the impacts of mining in Negros on local communities and the environment today - Monday, November 12.
Last Updated on Monday, 12 November 2012 17:30LATIN AMERICAN CONSULTATION ON AID AND DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS IN AGRICULTURE
Written by Shanthi Thursday, 08 November 2012 12:47
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La Paz, Bolivia - Last October 31 and November 1, a total of 34 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) representing indigenous peoples, peasants, afro organisation, rural women, support NGOs and research centers in the rural sector, international NGOs, experts, rural cooperatives, solidarity agriculture organizations and networks from 11 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean held a successful consultation-workshop on aid and development effectiveness on agriculture and rural development.
Last Updated on Monday, 12 November 2012 11:38CFS Side event: Food systems facing climate change: Agro-ecology provides the answers!
Written by Administrator Monday, 05 November 2012 16:36
Hosted by the Civil Society Mechanism for the Committee on World Food Security Climate Change Working Group
Agroecology and Climate Change
17 October 2012
39th Session of the Committee on World Food Security
FAO, Rome, Italy
Sarojeni V. Rengam,
Pesticide Action Network – Asia Pacific (PAN AP)
Asian Rural Women’s Coalition (ARWC)
Last Updated on Thursday, 08 November 2012 11:28
Chilean Organizations warn of project to expand GM crops
Written by Administrator Monday, 05 November 2012 15:04
PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK CHILE (RAP-CHILE)
CHILE
PRESS STATEMENT
16 October 2012
On "International Food Day", civil society groups and adherents to the "I do not want GMOs in Chile", gathered in Plaza de Armas to raise awareness about the harmful consequences of GMOs on health as well as to report on the bill that the government intends to promote Sebastián Piñera, to extend the cultivation of GMOs for domestic consumption after the municipal elections of October 28.
Last Updated on Monday, 05 November 2012 15:09
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