As a human rights organisation, FIAN documents, analyses, and addresses violations of the human right to food. Since its foundation, FIAN has worked on more than 400 individual cases. All of them were addressed, according to victim's requests, by FIAN Urgent Actions and other types of interventions. Many of them are accompanied by a local FIAN group.
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India - Nandigram, West Bengal - Villagers die due to state led terror
Publication date: 26-02-2008
Many villagers in Nandigram, women and children died when the armed goons of the ruling party in West Bengal opened fire on a peaceful rally on 10.11.2007. Villagers have been opposing
India - Singur, West Bengal – Forced eviction of 15,000 people
Publication date: 26-02-2008
More than 15,000 people in Singur, district Hooghly, were evicted from their lands and livelihood resources as the Government of West Bengal has acquired their agricultural lands for the construction of "Tata Motors", a car manufacturing
The Philippines - San Vicente, Bondoc - Landless tenants suffer harassment and hunger
Publication date: 26-02-2008
San Vicente is a village located in San Narciso, one of the municipalities of Bondoc Peninsula. The vast portions of land in San Vicente are owned or tightly controlled by the Uy family, to which the late former mayor of San Narciso
Ghana: Gold mining company, financed by the World Bank, cuts off more than 700 people in Teberebie from their fields
Publication date: 31-01-2008
The village of Teberebie is located in the Wassa West District of the Western Region of Ghana. Mining in the Wassa West District, which is known to have one of the largest clusters of mines and mining companies on the African continent,
Brazil – Engenho Prado, Pernambuco, Peasants in Struggle for dignity
Publication date: 29-01-2008
The conflict over the land of the sugar plantation "Prado" took place in the region known as Zona da Mata, in the State of Pernambuco, northeast Brazil. For centuries, this region has been known for its sugar cane production, as well
Brazil – Guarani Kaiowa – Malnutrition is killing indigenous children
Publication date: 24-01-2008
In the State of Mato Grosso do Sul the Guarani Kaiowá population is of approximately 27.500 people. Traditionally the Guaranis were itinerant people whose territory included most of the southern part of Latin America. For this
Honduras - CURLA - Women's Struggle
Publication date: 22-01-2008
On 27 September, the Agrarian Institute of Honduras decided to expropriate land and to transfer it to landless women. In 2001, the women's movement "10th of June" had occupied a portion of land that was lying idle, but belonged to
Brazil - Lagoa Nova - Peasants struggle against Sugar Cane Mill to recover land
Publication date: 17-01-2008
Since 1991, the agricultural company SANAGRO, one of the biggest producers of sugar cane in the north-east of Brazil, has been trying to keep off 90 peasants' families of the Lagoa Nova community from the land which legally belongs to these families,
Uganda - Mubende: Forcible eviction
Publication date: 11-12-2007
Forcible eviction from their land of abode and labor exploitation due to a coffee plantation in Naluwondwa-Madudu, Mubende District, Uganda Background In August 2001, the government of Uganda brutally evicted
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