Every year on the 17th April we commemorate International Day of Peasant’s Struggle to remember the 19 peasants of the Landless Workers’ Movement in Brazil who were murdered in 1996 in the “Massacre of Eldorado dos Carajas”.
This year will see thousands of mobilizations all over the world because defending peasant rights is to fight for social and environmental justice.
Friends of the Earth International joins the actions of solidarity with La Via Campesina on International Day of Peasant’s Struggle. RWR is showcasing interviews and special reports that delve deeper into this issue.
(Harare, April 17th, 2019) Today, April 17th, 2019, the International Day of Peasants’ Struggle, the member organisations of La Via Campesina are reaffirming the Declaration on Peasants’ Rights as a political tool to strengthen the global struggle for decent living and working conditions in rural areas. The Declaration should also be a tool for the worldwide promotion of urgently-needed agrarian…
April 17 marks the International Day of Peasant Struggle to remember the 19 peasants of the Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil who were murdered in 1996 in the “Massacre of Eldorado dos Carajas”. That day, tens of police officers attacked 1500 landless peasants in Eldorado dos Carajás. Since then, every April 17, there are thousands of demonstrations around the…
"A great step forward for all humanity" Meaning and projection of the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants, by Diego Montón The adoption by a very large majority of the United Nations General Assembly of the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other people working in rural areas represents “a great step forward for all humanity” that “ratifies and…
