The GEN is at the #HRC61 side event, "Food, Land, and Agrarian Reform" situating the ICARRD+20 Outcomes within the #GENeva context and providing the case for redistribution.
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🌾 ICARRD+20 | Here´s why should we be deepening the discution on the Agrarian Reform. Voices from the global south, coparts of @fastenaktion.bsky.social
✊ Agrarian reform must center the rights, knowledge, and leadership of rural women.
✊🌎Don’t miss! Ana María Hernández @FIAN Ecuador will share insights from her work defending the right to food & accompanying peasant communities facing deepening rights violations. She’ll unpack how current geopolitical shifts & weakened multilateralism are shaping daily realities for rural Ecuador.
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✊🌎Today in Geneva, Ana María Hernández and Raquel Silva delivered the report on the situation of human rights defenders in Ecuador to Special Rapporteur @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social. Grateful that hteir report is cited in the official report that she will present tomorrow to the Human Rights Council
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders Mary Lawlor stands among a diverse group of human rights defenders and participants at a roundtable organised by the ISHR in Geneva. The group poses together in front of a large mural depicting scenes of labour and rural life.
Very pleased to have been able to meet so many human rights defenders at a roundtable event this morning in Geneva. Thanks to the @ishr.ch for organising and hosting. #HRC61
⚠️ Hunger as a weapon.
UN Special Rapporteur Michael Fakhri warned that hunger is being used in conflicts — from Sudan to Palestine — violating human dignity and the right to food.
🌊 Solidarity in times of crisis.
Support was expressed for communities on Colombia’s Caribbean coast facing worsening living conditions and food insecurity amid climate vulnerability.
🤝 ICARRD+20 Collective responsibility.
Social movements, Indigenous Peoples, academia, philanthropy, and public institutions reaffirmed that defending the right to food requires joint action.
🌾 Plenary: Land, Food, Work and Life
🌱 Land, production & life are inseparable.
Addressing land concentration and soil degradation is essential. If we fail to protect the land where food is grown, the consequences will only worsen.
🌎 The panel also highlighted FIAN Brazil’s experience in right-to-food litigation, alongside reflections on strategic litigation addressing corporate accountability in global production chains.
Land, food, climate & justice are interconnected.
📢 “Defending the Right to Land through the Right to Food: Biodiversity and Global Supply Chains”
🌱 Yesterday this event explored how the right to food can be a powerful tool to defend land rights, protect biodiversity, and hold global supply chains accountable.
📍HRC61 Side Event
Food, Land & Agrarian Reform: ICARRD+20 & the Case for Redistribution
🗓6 March | 13:00–14:00
📌Room IX, Palais des Nations, Geneva
🌍 Rising land inequality is fueling hunger & injustice.
🌱 Redistributive agrarian reform is essential for food systems transformation & climate justice
The International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty releases its position paper ahead of the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development – ICARRD+20, calling for transformative agrarian reform grounded in food sovereignty.
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Also, to guarantee women’s equal access to and control over land, and ensure the meaningful participation of communities in environmental and climate policies.
📌This week, FIAN International & Christian Aid supported land defenders from Sierra Leone at the UPR pre-session in Geneva
💪They called on states to issue strong, concrete recommendations to the government of Sierra Leon to strengthen corporate accountability, fully implement the Customary Land Act
🌱PLAYLIST ✨ Seeds of Resistance in West Africa
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The German supermarket chain EDEKA misleads consumers by marketing palm oil products that are supposedly produced in a "sustainable" manner. This was the court ruling, which upheld a lawsuit brought by @foodwatchde.bsky.social, supported by ECCHR. www.ecchr.eu/en/press-rel...
🌍 On the occasion of the UPR Pre-session, we invite you to an exchange with human rights defenders working on environmental & climate justice and ⚖️ natural resource governance.
📍 Voices from Solomon Islands, Mozambique, Namibia & Sierra Leone will share.
🤝 Join the conversation.
Desafortunadamente el juez en primera instancia constitucional no ha protegido los derechos humanos constitucionales de la comunidad de “Los Angeles” pero seguiremos apoyando la defensa del caso hasta lograr justicia.
Unfortunately, the judge in the first constitutional instance has not protected the constitutional human rights of the community of "Los Angeles", but we will continue to support the defence of the case until justice is achieved. //
⚠️ FIAN International and allied organisations are raising our voices before the Constitutional Court to stop the eviction of 31 peasant families in Durán.
✊ Justice must be on the side of those who feed us, not those who seek to expel them from their land.
UN experts* today expressed deep concern regarding the escalating use of police custody and criminal proceedings against farmers and agricultural trade union leaders in France, following the arrest of 52 people during peaceful protests in Paris this month.
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🌍Global Movements Unite: ICARRD+20 and the Fight for Land, Territory, and the Commons
Social movements and Indigenous Peoples are rallying behind the Second International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development. 🔥
📅 February 24-28, 2026 📍 Cartagena, 🇨🇴 Hosted by Government of Colombia
FIAN International condemns the military actions of the USA against Venezuela in clear breach of the UN Charter (Art.2.4) & urges the states of the UN to adopt effective action to protect state`s sovereignty, the rule of law and the right to self-determination and human rights of Venezuelan People
y urgiendo a los estados miembro de la ONU a adoptar medidas concretas para la protección de la vida, la soberanía y el Derecho Internacional Humanitario
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FIAN Internacional se une a las casi 1000 organizaciones que han rechazando la violación del derecho internacional, en la Carta de Naciones Unidas (art.2.4) y el derecho interamericano por gobierno de los Estados Unidos mediante acciones militares en Venezuela.
📢 3rd Nyéléni forum: Building global solidarity for systemic transformation
⚠️ The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online!
🌈 From 6 to 13 September 2025, the city of Kandy in Sri Lanka hosted the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum.
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Seeds are resistance. Seeds are memory. Seeds are future🌱
Don't let industrial agriculture erase them.
