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From hunger to rape: UN body must probe women’s rights violations in Uganda
FIAN calls on CEDAW Committee to ask Ugandan gov’t to prosecute violators, provide speedy justice to women victimized through land-grabbing, fishing restrictions
Extreme state violence used to curb protests against India mega steel project
FIAN International is urging the Indian government to abide by its international obligations and commitments related to the right to adequate food and nutrition and the environment.
Open Letter to the Brazilian Authorities
Letter to demand assurance of land titling decree and end of criminalization of quilombola peoples in Brejo dos Crioulos by the Brazilian government.
FIAN asks Paraguayan Supreme Court to Intervene on Behalf of Indigenous Sawhoyamaxa
In 2006 the Inter American Human Rights Court (IAHRC) issued a decision condemning the Paraguayan State for the violation of a number of human rights of the indigenous Community of the Sawhoyamaxa.
Seminar report on Social Protection in Geneva, Switzerland
Summary report of Seminar on Social Protection as a Catalyst for Food Security and the Right to Adequate Food in March 2013
Mali: Grassroots groups confront climate crisis with strategies rooted in agrarian justice
After last month’s COP26 climate summit it is worth taking a critical look at the global climate agenda’s growing emphasis on climate security and other top-down approaches. Grassroots movements in Mali are building creative experiments in land rights, community participation and agroecology that confront the climate crisis and promote social and environmental justice.
Global social movements stand in solidarity with Indian farmers a year after protests began
FIAN International joins civil society organizations around the world today expressing solidarity and support for India's farmers a year after their historic protests began
Ghana gov’t told: Junk law that may lead to criminalizing farmers
Ghana must protect the seeds of its farmers from corporate capture to ensure the people’s right to food and nutrition
Time to hold corporations legally accountable for human rights and environmental crimes
Transnational corporations generally enjoy impunity from liability and prosecution for human rights abuses in developing countries, often linked to land grabbing and environmental pollution. States meeting in Geneva on Monday to discuss a binding UN treaty must seize the opportunity to hold them accountable.
Public development banks must stop funding corporate agribusiness
A global summit of public development banks meets tomorrow to discuss agriculture and agribusiness and “the transformation of food systems”. It comes hot on the heels of the UN Food Systems Summit, originally billed as a forum for addressing world hunger but hijacked by corporate interests to showcase fake corporate solutions driven solely by profit.
Human Rights are borderless!
The Maastricht Principles, ten years old this week, are a legal tool for advocates, CSOs and affected communities seeking to hold foreign human rights perpetrators to account.
Communicating for food sovereignty: people’s culture and popular education
The new edition of the Nyéléni Newsletter is now online!