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Vacancy Trainee Communications
Publication date: 08-07-2008
FIAN, the international human rights organisation for the right to food, is looking for a trainee in the area of Communications. The Traineeship will start August or September 2008, for the duration of 1 year, at the International
Honduras: Murder of peasant leader
Publication date: 08-07-2008
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: rights to food and life of 300 petitioning landless tenants are threatened, Bondoc Peninsula
Publication date: 07-07-2008
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)
Publication date: 01-07-2008
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
Peasants demand own Human Rights Convention
Publication date: 30-06-2008
From June 20 to 24, 2008, an International Conference on Peasants' Rights took place in Jakarta, Indonesia. The delegates, mainly small farmers of the International movement La Via Campesina, demand a UN convention on peasant
World food crisis requires comprehensive reorientation of European agriculture policies
Publication date: 30-06-2008
On June 23 and 24, FIAN participated in the Civil Society Consultation to the FAO Regional Conference for Europe and Central Asia. The session was held in Innsbruck,Austria, and concentrated on the issue of agricultural policy
Philippines: Long-delayed Court decision deprives landless peasants' access to land
Publication date: 23-06-2008
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,
New publication on agrofuels in Latin America released
Publication date: 16-06-2008
An increasingly important share of so-called bioenergy today is produced from agricultural crops, which are traditionally used for food and feed. The cultivation of non-food energy crops also requires land and water. This ceates
Right to Food Quarterly's new issue released
Publication date: 21-05-2008
The Human Right to Food perspective is crucial to address the immediate and root causes of the current World Food Crisis. The fourth edition of the Right to Food Quarterly takes up one of the burning issues of current debates,
Forcible eviction of peasant families in Haiti
Publication date: 20-05-2008
In 2004, 1200 Haitian peasant families were violently evicted from their lands in the Artibonite department. 588 families lost the lands that they were given by the Government in 2004 in the municipality of L’Estère. Today evicted
