Letter campaigns (called Urgent Actions) are one of FIAN's instruments to address violations of the human right to food. Members and supporters from all around the world, either by letter, fax or e-mail, request the responsible state authorities to meet their obligations to respect, protect and fulfil human rights.
Experience has shown that Urgent Actions can improve the situation of those people concerned of or threatened by a human rights violation. FIAN will only act if it is requested to do so by the victims and their support groups.
Thanks for your participation in the following Urgent Actions.
Philippines: rights to food and life of 300 petitioning landless tenants are threatened in San Vicente, Bondoc Peninsula
Beginning of Action:
01-07-2008
- End of Action
31-08-2008
Land is essential for peasants to feed themselves adequately. In San Vicente (municipality of San Narciso), the landholdings of the influential Uy family are yet to be covered under the national agrarian reform program and distributed to around 300...
Brazil: Increasing repression and criminalization against Landless People Movement (MST)
Beginning of Action:
30-06-2008
- End of Action
15-08-2008
Last June 17, about 300 landless (the vast majority of them women, children and elderly) were forcibly evicted from two camps of the "Movimento de Trabalhadores Sem Terra" (MST), located on leased and private land -therefore legally occupied- in...
Honduras: Murder of peasant leader related to agrarian reform implementation in Aguán
Beginning of Action:
30-06-2008
- End of Action
31-08-2008
On 11th June 2008, the peasant leader Irene Ramírez was murdered at 10:30 pm in the city of Trujillo, Colón, in front of the facilities of the Education Department of Colón, approximately 500 meters from the police offices and the Department of...
Philippines: Long-delayed Supreme Court decision deprives landless peasants' access to land
Beginning of Action:
16-06-2008
- End of Action
31-08-2008
In 1996, 200 landless peasants were identified as beneficiaries for 393 hectares of land owned by former Senator Rene Espina. Not only has the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) failed to install these peasants onto the said landholding till today,...
Haiti: Forcible eviction of peasant families, Artibonite
Beginning of Action:
18-05-2008
- End of Action
30-06-2008
In 2004, 1200 Haitian peasant families were violently evicted from their lands in the Artibonite department. The families received the lands from the State in 1997 in the framework of the agrarian reform, and have lived and worked there ever since....
India: 15,000 peasants face eviction from their lands in Singur, Hooghly District, West Bengal
Beginning of Action:
15-05-2008
- End of Action
20-07-2008
More than 15,000 peasants in Singur are facing eviction from their lands and livelihood resources as the Government of West Bengal has taken their land for the building of "Tata Motors", a car manufacturing unit of the Indian multinational Tata Corpora-tion....
Philippines: The right to food of poor fishers’ families is threatened in Navotas, Manila
Beginning of Action:
13-05-2008
- End of Action
13-07-2008
In the municipality of Navotas, Manila, several hundreds of poor fishers’ families are facing eviction. In May 2006, the...
Ghana: Iduapriem gold mine, financed by the World Bank, pollutes water and cuts off farmers from their lands
Beginning of Action:
15-04-2008
- End of Action
30-06-2008
Farmers living on the concession of the Iduapriem mine in the Wassa West District suffer because most of their lands have been taken over by the mine. In addition they experience a lack of access to safe water as streams have ceased to exist, remaining...
Mexico: The heavy pollution of the river Santiago affects the rights to food and health of riverside dwellers - Follow-up Action
Beginning of Action:
03-04-2008
- End of Action
31-05-2008
For the last three decades, the river Santiago has being receiving the effluents from the chemical-pharmaceutical, food and drink, textile, non-metallic mineral, metalworking, electric and electronic industries; as well as water and...
India: Many villagers died due to state led terror, Nandigram, West Bengal
Beginning of Action:
14-02-2008
- End of Action
14-04-2008
Many villagers in Nandigram, women and children died when the armed goons of CPIM (Communist Party of India (Marxist)) opened fire on a peaceful rally on 10.11.2007. Villagers have been opposing for 11 months a proposed Special Economic Zone (SEZ)...
