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Las mujeres rurales mueven el mundo ()
15 Octubre 2018
Artículo de la presidenta nacional de Afammer con motivo del Día Internacional de la Mujer Rural   Por Carmen Quintanilla Los días internacionales son una gran oportunidad para reflexionar y sensibilizar sobre temas que necesitan la atención de toda la sociedad, o recordar aspectos que la…
Hambre Cero: nuestras acciones de hoy son nuestro futuro ()
15 Octubre 2018
Este es un artículo de opinión de José Graziano da Silva, director general de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO). Por José Graziano da Silva   Hace solo tres años, en septiembre de 2015, todos los Estados miembros de las Naciones Unidas…
Reconocimiento y políticas piden mujeres rurales latinoamericanas ()
11 Octubre 2018
Este artículo forma parte de la cobertura de IPS sobre el Día Internacional de las Mujeres Rurales, el 15 de octubre. Por Mariela Jara   LIMA, 11 oct 2018 (IPS) - Las mujeres rurales de América Latina son determinantes en metas como un desarrollo sostenible en el campo, la seguridad…
For women in rural Uganda Newcastle Disease vaccine is more than just protecting chickens
Do we really want peasants? ()
10 Octubre 2018
Jur Schuurman
The debate on agriculture and development is heated and, apparently, never ending. This is especially true of the role and position of peasant (or smallholder) agriculture, with people either vigorously defending the sector or saying that in time it will (and should) disappear. Prof. Olivier de…
Women working in a field Women at work in Sri Lanka. Photo: Lakshman Nadaraja/World Bank
We want peasants ()
26 Septiembre 2018
Olivier De Schutter
This week in Geneva, the Human Rights Council is expected to take a position on the follow-up to a draft Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other Persons Working in Rural Areas. Five years after the start of the negotiations, we are at a turning point. On 3 July, by a large majority of 534…
Queremos campesinos ()
26 Septiembre 2018
Por: Olivier De Schutter   El próximo 28 de septiembre el Consejo de Derechos Humanos votará el proyecto de Declaración de los derechos de los campesinos   El pasado mes de mayo se presentó ante la ONU el Proyecto de Declaración sobre los derechos de los campesinos. Este documento sin precedentes…
Global Witness: Find the fact, change the story, expose the system.
Investigate, Expose and Advocate: Stopping illegal environmental destruction and violence against human rights defenders ()
26 Septiembre 2018
Gillian Caldwell
We are facing challenges in our collective efforts to ensure that land rights are respected around the world. We are fighting the odds with ever more powerful companies and governments surrounding us. And these forces are all too often working in collusion to drive business forward with a profit at…
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Non aux abus faits aux femmes dans les plantations industrielles de palmier à huile ()
24 Septiembre 2018
Date: 21 septembre 2018 Source: Grain.org, Mouvement mondial pour les forêts tropicales « Hier est passé, vivre aujourd’hui sagement et, puisque demain ne peut être assuré, la lutte commence maintenant… » Hajaratu Abdulahi de Nigeria Décidé à Mundemba, au Cameroun, réitéré à Port Loko, Sierra…
community-investor negotiation guide
Bad-faith Contracts & Unjust Investments – How Can Communities Protect Their Interests? ()
20 Septiembre 2018
Rachael Knight, Kaitlin Cordes
Deciding whether or not to allow an investor to use community lands and natural resources is one of the most important decisions a community can make. Namati and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) have published two new guides to help communities prepare for interactions with…
The Alliance of Indigenous Peoples of the Archipelago (AMAN)
What is happening now across the world is nothing less than a systematic attack on peasant communities and Indigenous Peoples ()
7 Septiembre 2018
Andrew Anderson
FRONT LINE DEFENDERS has documented 821 human rights defenders (HRDs) who have been killed in the four years since we started producing an annual global list in cooperation with national and international NGOs. Seventy-nine percent of this total came from six countries: Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala…
The Alliance of Indigenous Peoples of the Archipelago (AMAN)
What is happening now across the world is nothing less than a systematic attack on peasant communities and Indigenous Peoples ()
7 Septiembre 2018
Andrew Anderson
FRONT LINE DEFENDERS has documented 821 human rights defenders (HRDs) who have been killed in the four years since we started producing an annual global list in cooperation with national and international NGOs. Seventy-nine percent of this total came from six countries: Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala…
When Defending the Land Becomes a Crime
When Defending the Land Becomes a Crime ()
7 Septiembre 2018
Ms. Moira Birss
BERTA CÁCERES, ASSASSINATED in her home in March 2016, was just one of hundreds of Latin American environmental activists attacked in recent years. At least 577 environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) were killed in Latin America between 2010 and 2015 – more than in any other region. In…