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Honduras: Peasant Leader Assassinated in Bajo Aguán
Publication date: 27-01-2012
Matías Valle Cárdenas, leader of the Aguán Unified Peasant Movement (Movimiento Unificado Campesino de Aguán - MUCA) was assassinated January 20th, between 7:10 and 7:30am. Valle Cárdenas was shot three times in the thorax by two hooded men
Solidarity with Human Rights Defenders!
Publication date: 16-01-2012
Celebrating the struggle of those women and men who daily remind us of our crude humanity! At the beginning of a new year, I would like to pay a sincere tribute to all human beings that with her/his struggle for his/her rights
Brazil: Guarani community gains a small victory at the end of a year full of violations
Publication date: 20-12-2011
As the year comes to a close, we get the impression that small steps forward can take on greater importance, especially when these advances occur in struggles that have gone on for countless years. Thus, FIAN Brazil would like to share an important,
Disappearance of Two Activists in Mexico
Publication date: 16-12-2011
FIAN, through its Mexican section, has received alarming news of the disappearance of Mr. Marcial Bautista Valle and Mrs. Eva Fe Alarcón, representatives of the peasants organization Organización de Campesinos Ecologistas de la Sierra de Petatlán
Declaration of human rights experts on the Optional Protocol
Publication date: 09-12-2011
Declaration of Jurists and other human rights experts on the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Nyéléni, Mali : A Global Alliance Against Land Grabbing
Publication date: 02-12-2011
From 17-19 November 2011 women and men peasants, pastoralists, indigenous peoples and their allies from across the world gathered together in Mali to participate in the first international peasants' conference to stop land grabbing. The
Brazil indigenous Guarani leader Nisio Gomes killed
Publication date: 24-11-2011
On Friday 18th of November masked gunmen executed the Brazilian Indian religious leader Nísio Gomes in front of his community. Witnesses say he was shot in the head, chest, arms and legs. The 59-year-old's body was then driven
Movements united in Mali, confronting powerful interests: "We are decolonizing Africa here"
Publication date: 23-11-2011
Nyéléni, Mali – 19 November 2011 —The National Confederation of Peasant Organization’s (CNOP) agroecological training center stands at the crossroads of the West African countryside. Surrounded with rich Malian farmland and dotted with white
Right to Food in Cameroon under revision at UN
Publication date: 23-11-2011
On November 21, RAPDA- Cominsud, FIAN, PWESCR and the Cameroon Platform on ESCR, among other human rights organizations, held a lunch briefing with the members of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the Situation of ESC-Rights, especially the
Policies Against Hunger Conference, Berlin, 21-23 Nov.
Publication date: 18-11-2011
On 21-23 November 2011 FIAN will take part in the German Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection- sponsored high-ranking conference series Policies against Hunger in Berlin. This year's focus will be on the problems of access to natural
