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Digital agriculture: A new frontier for data rights
Human rights–based governance frameworks are urgently needed to prevent data-driven exploitation, which will worsen inequalities in food and agriculture, writes FIAN International’s Philip Seufert in OpenGlobalRights.
Emerging diseases and factory farming. What makes food safe?
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Guarani and Kaiowá leaders call on EU and UN to support their struggle
Leaders from the Guarani and Kaiowá Indigenous Peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil begin a trip across Europe this week to draw attention to the structural human rights violations faced by their Peoples. They will call on European policy makers and UN human rights bodies to adopt measures in support of their struggle. They are accompanied by FIAN Brazil, FIAN International and the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI).
Governments must halt coal power ecocide and make amends in Western Balkans
Coal power in the Western Balkans is damaging homes, devastating health and livelihoods and ruining small scale agriculture. The governments of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina must move away from coal power, restore the region‘s biodiversity and compensate affected people.
Communities affected by mining in Koudiadiène, Pambal and Diogo in Senegal demand protection
Mineral extraction by Senegalese-Spanish company SEPHOS and Grande Côte Opérations (GCO) from France has had serious human rights impacts on local communities. Senegal must comply with its international human rights obligations and establish legal frameworks to ensure that the human rights and land rights of affected communities are respected and protected.
Towards People’s Food Power
There is growing resistance to the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit and a clash between consolidating corporate-driven industrial food systems and human rights-based, agroecological food system transformation.
Nyéléni process: Recognizing the power of people’s movements
Edition No 52 of the Nyéléni newsletter is online
Rural communities in Piauí, Brazil, request urgent action against ongoing violence, land grabbing and deforestation
Rural communities from the Brazilian state of Piauí denounce increasing violence against their leaders and deforestation by land grabbers in the Cerrado, the world's largest tropical savanna. State and federal authorities must guarantee communities' lives and rights by issuing collective land titles.
Documentaries in two regions of Brazil portray challenges to strengthening indigenous school feeding
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Coal ecocide destroys Serbian farmers‘ livelihoods
A giant mine in Eastern Serbia feeds one of Europe’s most polluting coal-fired power plants. It is undermining the geology of villages and farms, causing houses to crack, triggering floods and destroying crops, livelihoods and local people‘s health.
EU must act to stop Balkan coal power ecocide
Coal power in the Western Balkans is threatening farmers' livelihoods, damaging homes and devastating livelihoods. The European Union must make funding to the region conditional on protection of the environment and human rights.