A few weeks ago in Brazil, IARAA—an Artificial Intelligence tool for Agrarian Reform and Agroecology—was launched. The tool was developed by the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) and the World March of Women (WMW) and supported by the Baobab International Association for People’s Cooperation in China. To discuss this, I’m joined by Natalia Lobo, an activist with the World March…
Activists and socio-environmental organisations from around the world demonstrated against the impunity of transnational oil corporation Chevron (formerly Texaco) and in solidarity with the affected Amazonian peoples and communities. It is estimated that more than 450,000 hectares of the Ecuadorian Amazon have been contaminated by crude oil and toxic waste dumped by the corporation from 1954 to 1990. In 1993,…
On 24-28 February, the Second International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD+20) will be held in Cartagena, Colombia, marking 20 years since the first edition. Ahead of the conference, hundreds of delegates that make up the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC), including Indigenous Peoples, peasant movements, fisherfolk, rural workers and more will gather in Cartagena for…
The first Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change, signed in 1992 in Rio, Brazil, was held in 1995. Its 30th edition, better known as the COP30, will be held in November this year. It will be a special edition because it will take place in Latin America, the Amazon specifically, and also because social movements…
The debates presented below were part of a training cycle on feminist economy and environmental justice. Organized by the World March of Women (WMW) in Brazil, in collaboration with Friends of the Earth International’s (FOEI) gender justice and dismantling patriarchy working group, the training was aimed at members of the federation from all regions of the world. Capire and Real World…
17 April marks the International Day of Peasant Struggles. It commemorates the massacre of 19 landless workers in Eldorado Dos Carajás, Brazil, in 1996. Like every year, La Via Campesina calls to action, this time under the slogan “Land, water and territories for life”, and calls to mobilise for “a comprehensive land reform and ambitious public policies to stop land…
Javier Milei took office as President of Argentina on 10 December 2023. During this time, the far-right leader, an uncompromising defender of the free market and inciter of hate, imposed social cuts, persecuted demonstrators and used violence in different ways, showed himself subservient to Israel and the US, and began to build a new internal enemy: all people fighting for…
An encounter of social movements and organisations calling for a new multilateralism at the service of the peoples and the planet began on Thursday in New York, United States, ahead of the United Nations (UN) Summit of the Future to be held in that same city on 22 and 23 September. The encounter*, which will be held until Saturday at…
Amid bombings, war crimes, mass killings of civilians, most of whom are women and children, missing persons, famine and the devastation of entire cities, environmental justice seems like a minor issue. But it is not. The link between the environmental destruction of a territory and that of its original people is inseparable. Chemical residues in the soil, water and air,…
On November 3rd 1993, a group of Indigenous People and peasants from the northern Ecuadorian Amazon filed a lawsuit against one of the world's most powerful transnational oil companies, Texaco (now Chevron), for environmental crimes. At that moment, the Union of People Affected by Texaco (UDAPT) was officially created. The lawsuit is the founding milestone of an organisation that has…
