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 accountability mechanism of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) decided to close a formal complaint against the Tata Mundra coal-fired power plant in India, financed by the IFC, despite confirming the continuing serious impacts of the plant over the last 12 years. The Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) of the IFC (body of the World Bank for the private sector) confirmed…
More than 1,000 people from all continents came together in Kandy, Sri Lanka, with a specific goal: to plan joint actions to overcome the multiple global crises we are currently experiencing. These crises are the result of a system that organises life and distributes resources unfairly, placing capital above life, profits above nature, and business before care. The 3rd Nyéléni…
On this episode of Voices are Action, we discuss three central issues: 1) From 12 to 16 November, the Peoples' Summit will be held in the Brazilian city of Belém, in the state of Pará, in the Amazon. This summit is the response of social movements around the world to a new edition of the UN Climate Change Conference -COP30-,…
These are the headlines of our fourth episode of Voices are Action, our new podcast series. 1. Argentina – Mendoza: The Assembly for Water of Uspallata, a town in Argentina located at the head of the Mendoza River basin, is currently threatened by the actions of the San Jorge open pit mining project, in a context of public power grabbing…
On June 16, a judge of the Municipal Court of Jericó, a municipality in the department of Antioquia, released eleven peasants who are facing legal proceedings for opposing a mining project of transnational corporation AngloGold Ashanti in the area. The decision allows the peasants to continue the process while remaining free, contrary to the request of the Prosecutor's Office that…
Humanity is facing devastating times. Although Israel is relentless with its genocide in Gaza, it also decided to bomb Iran and brought the world to its knees, unleashing a conflict that could have catastrophic consequences for the Middle East and the world. Ethnic cleansing in Palestine was not enough for Israel this time. In this context of terror, our new…
“In the early hours of today, the Israeli occupation launched large-scale airstrikes on Iran — a dangerous development that transforms what was already a genocidal campaign in Palestine into a regional war with unforeseeable consequences”, warned this Friday La Via Campesina. “This marks a new phase in a long-standing colonial project, now fueled by imperialist impunity, aimed not only at…
In this new podcast series, Voices are Action, we will explore different regions of the world with news from social movements with an environmental, social and gender justice perspective. In this first episode you will hear about: -Where is Julia Chuñil? Report from Chile by Catalina Huerta from MODATIMA -A peaceful demonstration for Palestine repressed in Croatia -A new report…
The upcoming 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum to take place in September 2025, is set to be one of those milestones that shape the history of peoples’ struggles, in this case, the struggles of peasant movements and organisations that promote food sovereignty, alongside all the organisations that carry that banner in every corner of the planet. Following the 2007 and 2015…
