Resist here, return here: Free Palestine!
The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty – Global is one with the Palestinian people in rejecting the normalization of Zionist Israel’s occupation and in condemning its escalating violence against them. On this year’s #PalestineLandDay, March 30, we highlight the fascist attacks that continue to displace Palestinians and facilitate the takeover of their land. We slam the violative expansion […]
Peasants, Rise Up against Land Grabs and Fascism! | Day of the Landless 2022 unity statement
A total of 110 global and regional networks, alliances, and institutions endorse this unity statement to mark the Day of the Landless 2022.
Day of the Landless 2022: Fight ‘New Wave’ Landgrabs! Not in our Name, Not in our Lands!
Rural peoples are under attack by an onslaught of ‘new wave’ policies and mechanisms of land and resource grabbing, colonial plunder, and human rights violations. The last decade has been marked by a continuous rise in foreign and domestic large-scale land acquisitions led by the world’s biggest TNCs and imperialist governments. In fact, a 2020 […]
Int’l rural movement urges UNHRC, UN experts to act on escalating attacks, killings against PH farmers amid elections
PCFS is calling the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and its independent experts over the spike of state-perpetrated human rights violations targeting peasant leaders and advocates of the rural sector in the Philippines amid the country’s national elections.
PCFS commends European Parliament resolution on human rights violations in the Philippines
PCFS specifically welcomes the fact that the EP reiterated its call for the European Commission to take steps to temporarily withdraw trade preferences that benefit the Philippines, should the government fail to show substantial improvement in complying with its human rights obligations.
Stand with the Filipino Farmers in the fight for Food, Land, and Justice
PCFS statement on the 35th Anniversary of Mendiola Massacre On 22 January 2022, we are one with the Filipino peasantry in pursuing justice for the victims of the Mendiola Massacre and call to end the continuing attacks against farmers and rural peoples in the country. State forces under the then-president Corazon Cojuangco Aquino opened fire at thousands of […]
PCFS joins global call to sever FAO-CropLife Alliance
On World No Pesticides Use Day, the Peoples Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) joins the call to sever the FAO Croplife #Toxic Alliance and demand a renewed commitment for rural peoples’ rights and welfare from the agency.
PCFS: WTO remains a bane to addressing both the COVID-19 and hunger pandemic
The Peoples Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) reiterates that to radically transform health and food systems, a future without WTO is the only way forward.
Beyond equality: Assert people’s right to food, struggle for food sovereignty! | Int’l Human Rights Day 2021
On International Human Rights Day, PCFS highlights the assertion of rural people’s movements for people’s rights, especially people’s food sovereignty as the realization of people’s right to food. Akin to this is demanding the accountability of governments and corporations that perpetuate human rights violations, which are often disregarded as a legitimate demand because of their influence over policy spaces.