New recommendations by the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) call on the government of Nepal to ensure that women, especially those belonging to disadvantaged groups, have access to adequate social and economic benefits, economic empowerment and social protection schemes.
For over two decades, community members from land occupied by Kaweri coffee plantation in Uganda have fought for compensation for a brutal eviction. Through years of legal battles, they have persevered in their struggle for justice. The Ugandan state has made the first payments of promised compensation but many are protesting that it is far less than they are owed.
In conflicts around the world, millions are facing starvation and famine conditions but the international community’s response remains disjointed and ineffective. In a new briefing paper, FIAN International examines the reasons for this and explores ways to strengthen timely and effective assistance to communities impacted by long term human rights abuses – including deliberate starvation and famine.
As the new year begins FIAN International bids farewell to Sofia Monsalve Suárez. As FIAN's first female Secretary General from the Global South, Sofía brought unprecedented depth and breadth to the organization.
The Sowers of Life and Resistance booklet published today captures the transformative journey of women and young women defenders of food sovereignty in Latin America and the Caribbean. As participants in the feminist school of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty, they envision and practice a collective future rooted in care, gender justice, agroecology and food sovereignty.
Negotiations towards a strong treaty on transnational corporations (TNCs) and other businesses to effectively protect people and mother earth have been underway for a decade. On Human Rights Day and ahead of the tenth round of talks in Geneva next week FIAN International calls on states to make progress on holding powerful interests to account on human rights and the environment.
The industrial food system harms people and the planet and undermines people’s ability to feed their families and communities in a healthy, sustainable and dignified way. Corporate interests shape and benefit from this system. Ahead of a new round of UN Binding Treaty negotiations on transnational corporations, it is time to put the spotlight on this abuse and accelerate efforts to end it.
FIAN’s International Council has adopted a new Strategic Plan for the period until 2030, approved a new International Board and welcomed a newly appointed Secretary General who will take over the role in January.
On the occasion of World Fisheries Day, FIAN International reaffirms its unwavering solidarity with the world’s largest fisher peoples’ movement, the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP), as they demand systemic reform in global food systems. Fisher peoples are stewards of water bodies and frontline defenders of food sovereignty, biodiversity, and environmental sustainability. Their contribution to feeding the planet should be recognized by governments worldwide, yet their livelihoods are under constant threat.
Floods and drought in Zambia are destroying crops, livestock, houses and infrastructure and forcing people to resettle. Nearly half of the country’s land for cultivating maize has been affected. States with historic responsibility for the climate crisis must meet their human rights obligations to provide adequate remediation and full reparation for loss and damage as well as rapidly phase-out of fossil fuels.
People-led solutions should be prioritized in climate change talks and those historically responsible should be held accountable. The people most affected must have access to effective remedies for loss and damage, in line with international law. COP29 should advance the implementation of a true and radical transformation of food systems including a just transition to agroecology.
Mineral extraction in Western Senegal by French and Spanish companies is destroying the health and livelihoods of local farming communities. Senegalese authorities must protect their right to land and adequately compensate victims of unfair eviction. France and Spain must take responsibility for environmental and human rights abuses by companies based on their territory.