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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HONOURING 100 WOMEN TO MARK 100 YEARS OF WOMEN'S RESISTANCE RIGHTS, EMPOWERMENT AND LIBERATION!
Written by Administrator Monday, 05 November 2012 13:38
ASIAN RURAL WOMEN'S COALITION (ARWC)
ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
Malaysia – Asian Rural Women’s Coalition (ARWC) honoured 100 exceptional rural women and advocates on International Day of Rural Women, 15 October 2012. They marked the day as an opportunity to remember the contributions of these women who fight for survival, justice and freedom.
Last Updated on Monday, 05 November 2012 17:25
DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES AND FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN MANIPUR
Written by Administrator Monday, 05 November 2012 13:22
CITIZENS CONCERN FOR DAMS AND DEVELOPMENT (CCDD)
COMMITTEE ON THE PROTECTION OF NATURAL RESOURCES IN MANIPUR
CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY - Manipur
ALL LOKTAK LAKE FISHERMEN’S UNION
JAC AGAINST THE LAMPHEL YAIPHA LEIKAI EVICTION
JAC AGAINST LEI INGKHOL EVICTION
ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT – Manipur
INDIA
India – In commemoration for World Food(less) Day, organizations in Manipur, India held a one day discussion on Development Challenges and Food Sovereignty in Manipur. The participants discussed the increasing land grabbing of arable land, construction of mega-dams, displacement of local peoples, increasing militarization, and lack of food sovereignty driving hunger and poverty in the region. They raised the concerns of the people and considered their calls for action.
Last Updated on Monday, 05 November 2012 13:37
ESAFF-UGANDA TV CAMPAIGN RAISES AWARENESS ON FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
Written by Administrator Monday, 05 November 2012 12:42
UGANDA
Kampala, Uganda – ESAFF Uganda hosted a television show to raise awareness among the people of the problems in rural areas and agricultural production in the country. They highlighted the failures of the Ugandan Government to support small-scale farmers and called for food sovereignty as the only sustainable solution to poverty and hunger. ESAFF Uganda also participated in the annual World Food Day Events to demonstrate the benefits of indigenous produce.
Last Updated on Monday, 05 November 2012 13:03STOP AGRICULTURE LAND GRABBING IN THE NAME OF DEVELOPMENT OF REAL ESTATE
Written by Administrator Monday, 05 November 2012 12:28
COAST TRUST,
BANGLADESH
Right Groups Observed 16th October as World Food Less Day
16th October 2012
Dhaka, Bangladesh - Sseventeen rights based civil society organizations led by Equity BD along with SAAPE (South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication) organized a human chain / rally in front of National Press Club Dhaka for observance of 16th October as World Food Less Day while different organization and United Nation observing the day as world food day. In line several other international alliance like the People’s Coalition for Food Sovereignty (PCFS), Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PANAP), La Via Campesina, Jubilee South - world anti debt coalition and their alliance members also observing the World Foodless Day across the world to raise the voices of the hungry.
Last Updated on Monday, 05 November 2012 17:23Policy Round Table on Food Security and Climate Change
Written by Administrator Wednesday, 31 October 2012 16:27
CIVIL SOCIETY MECHANISM FOR COMMITTEE ON WORLD FOOD SECURITY CLIMATE CHANGE WORKING GROUP
On Tuesday, 15 October 2012, the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) held a Policy Round Table on Food Security and Climate Change. PCFS representative, Amy Padilla, made an intervention on climate change adaptation on behalf of the Civil Society Mechanism Working Group on Climate Change.
Full Text of Intervention on Climate Adaptation*
15 October 2012
39th Session of the Committee on World Food Security
FAO, Rome, Italy
Amy Padilla
People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS)
Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Amy Padilla from the Civil Society Mechanism (CSM) and I represent in the CSM the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty, a global coalition of grassroots groups of small food producers, peasants, women, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, pastoralists, consumer groups and NGOs advocating food sovereignty.
Last Updated on Monday, 05 November 2012 12:17
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