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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.
Honduras: Extreme violence against peasant communities in Bajo Aguán
Beginning of Action:
07-10-2011
- End of Action
31-12-2011
The Bajo Aguán valley is witnessing an alarming situation of violence and repression against peasant communities: between January 2010 and early October 2011, 40 people involved in peasant organizations in the region were murdered. For several years,...
Open-cast Coal Mining Threatens Indigenous Villagers of Kusum Tola, Karanpura Valley, Jharkhand
Beginning of Action:
09-06-2011
- End of Action
31-12-2011
The expanding operations of mining company Central Coalfields Limited (CCL) are posing an immediate threat to the survival of 1,000 indigenous people facing eviction from the village of Kusum Tola located in the North Karanpura region in the Indian...
Colombia: 123 families returns to the Las Pavas land
Beginning of Action:
24-02-2011
- End of Action
24-05-2011
Demand that their right to adequate food and related rights be guaranteed during and after their return! July 14, 2009, 123 families living in the rural area known as Las Pavas, in township of Buenos Aires in the El Peñón municipal jurisdiction...
Ecuador - Formal distribution of land used for financial speculation to land possessing families
Beginning of Action:
02-11-2010
- End of Action
31-12-2010
An effective allocation of the lands utilized in financial speculation during the bank crisis to peasant families by means of the Lands Plan has not been possible due to the private nature of these lands. Despite its importance, this plan has generated...
Brazil - Disrespect for human rights continues generating violence against Guarani Kaiowa
Beginning of Action:
12-10-2010
- End of Action
10-12-2010
The Guarani-Kaiowá are indigenous people from the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. In the past they were expelled from their ancestral lands to make way for large-scale agricultural plantations and cattle breeding. This year on August...
BAN LAND GRABBING!
Beginning of Action:
23-08-2010
- End of Action
16-10-2010
The new land grabbing is the latest element in a transnational business strategy of trying to get the hands on people's lands and water resources. Land grabbing violates international human rights law - not so much because in the course of people's...
Guatemala: Community leader shot - Marlin mine activities must be suspended
Beginning of Action:
15-07-2010
- End of Action
31-08-2010
Guatemala, July 15, 2010. On July 7th, two unknown men shot Ms. Diodora Antonia Hernández Cinto in her home. She is a community leader of the movement against the Marlin Mine. On May 20th, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) ordered...
India: right to food of children still not implemented in Uttar Pradesh
Beginning of Action:
13-07-2010
- End of Action
12-09-2010
Despite recommendations from local authorities Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is still not implemented in village Jalapur of Uttar Pradesh thereby threatening the right to food of children and women in the village. ICDS programmes address...
Stop Land Grabbing Immediately!
Beginning of Action:
07-04-2010
- End of Action
19-05-2010
Do not support the principles of "responsible" agribusiness investment promoted by the World Bank
Land grabbing denies land for local communities, destroys livelihoods, reduces the political space for peasant oriented agricultural policies...
Mali: the right to food of 30 peasant families jeopardized in N'Tabacoro
Beginning of Action:
22-02-2010
- End of Action
15-04-2010
Dozens of families on the outskirts of Bamako, the capital of Mali, are under threat of being evicted from their lands by the Government in favour of a housing project. The cultivation ban, ordered in July 2009, jeopardizes their right to adequate...
