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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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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📍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
⚠️ 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.
📢 Across Africa, Asia & Latin America, extractive projects dispossess communities, damage ecosystems & livelihoods.
🌐 UN #BindingTreaty must introduce clear, enforceable global standards that prioritize #HumanRights & #Evironment over corporate profit.
📄 shorturl.at/9zYa0
#StopCorporateImpunity
📢 View oral statement by Ngäbe Buglé fisher leader Alfonso Simon Raylan to #HumanRightsCouncil here.
Following their intervention at the UN #HumanRightsCouncil #Panama indigenous fishers met UN Special Rapporteur Albert K Barume and advocate for an end to government repression at an UNDROP discussion hosted by FIAN International.
Read more here: shorturl.at/DEzi1
Tres important!
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Michael Fakhri. Source: https://unwatch.org/legal-analysis-of-un-food-rapporteur-michael-fakhris-2024-report-to-un-general-assembly/
Must-read: UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food @michaelfakhri.bsky.social calls out key companies driving corporate concentration in the food system and demands accountability for rights violations. digitallibrary.un.org/record/40872... @fian-international.bsky.social @etcgroup.bsky.social
The push for supermarkets across the world is causing a rise in highly processed foods. In the latest 'Supermarket bulletin', we highlight how local food distribution could be entry point to address nutrition issues grain.org/en/article/7...
@fian-international.bsky.social @margteixeira.bsky.social
Urgent call from our allies La Via Campesina to strengthen solidarity with #Palestine and pressure for #sanctions against #Israel.
#Gaza #Genocide shorturl.at/gu0z6 @viacampesinabe.bsky.social @eurovia.org
FIAN supports this call for global actions to support Palestine alongside the Palestinian NGO Network and the Friends of The Hague Group: shorturl.at/eo2r7
The power of a plate of food: how #Brazil National School Feeding Program supports local markets. Read more in the latest edition of Supermarket Watch @grain.org #FIANBrazil #StreetNetInternational shorturl.at/Euclb
📖 Full analysis in GNRTFN's #WATCH2025
#FoodSecurity #SocialSpending
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At the Policies against Hunger conference in Berlin this week FIAN Secretary General Ana Suarez-Franco called on the German government to stop violating international humanitarian law by sending weapons to Israel and standing by as people in Gaza are intentionally starved.
🌍 REDISTRIBUTING LAND, RESTORING RIGHTS 🌍 Tackling #LandInequality to Overcome #GlobalCrises
FIAN Side event at the 59th session of the #HumanRights Council
📅 June 30 | 4-5 PM📍UN Geneva-Room XXV
🔗 CONNECTING GLOBAL STRUGGLES: #ICARRD20 #COP30 #TaxJustice
⏰Don't miss this crucial conversation!
💸 #TAXJUSTICE = #FOODJUSTICE
Time for progressive, just, inclusive tax systems! ⚖️
💡 The truth: ¡Resources to ensure the right to food exist—they just need to be mobilized through smart tax measures!
Time to stop Israel's blockade of #Gaza and deliberate starvation of Palestinians
Read more here: www.fian.org/en/press-rel...
@michaelfakhri.bsky.social @viacampesinabe.bsky.social
As Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people rages on, the internationalist struggle for Palestinian liberation remains strong even in the face of suppression 🇵🇸
We stand in solidarity with @urgencepalestine.bsky.social against attempts by the French government to silence them
#FreePalestine
⁃ In mid September the chair will circulate his suggestions on articles Art 4-11, potentially to be negotiated during the session of 20-24 October 2025. Some suggestions will try to harmonize and in others they will show the divergences.
We will keep you updated!
• At the end of the session the chair announced next steps, notably:
⁃ The intersessionals planned for the end of August will be canceled due to UN financial constrains.
⁃ States unable to participate this week can send their contributions until the end of the month.
June 5th, Day 3 of the Intersessional Consultations for BindingTreaty to #StopCorporateImpunity:
- The #TreatyAlliance, #FeministsFor the Binding Treaty, and the #GlobalCampaign continued their active participation in the intersessional consultations to #StopCorporateImpunity.
🌐New FIAN & @focussouth.bsky.social report puts spotlight on top 10 global landowners controlling area as big as Japan.
📢Threatening food security/ livelihoods of 2.5 billion smallholder farmers & 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest.
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#LandGrabbing #FoodSovereignty #ICARRD+20
US Pension Fund TIAA Linked to Brutal Land Grabs and Evictions of Farmers in Brazil www.commondreams.org/opinion/tiaa... #LandGrabbing #FoodSovereignty @focussouth.bsky.social @fiandeutschland.bsky.social @fianbelgium.bsky.social @fiancolombia.bsky.social
🌍 Small group of global corporate landowners accumulate vast tracts of #land, fuel growing inequality, climate crisis.
📰 See The Ecologist: shorturl.at/jxY7H
📢 Join online discussion tomorrow, 15-17h CEST.
Register: shorturl.at/HBg7x
#LandGrabbing @theecologist.org @focussouth.bsky.social
🌎 Un petit groupe de propriétaires fonciers transnationaux accumule d'énormes quantités de terres et alimente l'inégalité croissante et la crise climatique.
📢 En savoir plus et comment assurer une distribution plus équitable des terres et des richesses le 3 juin.
S'inscrire : shorturl.at/HBg7x
✍️We sign this urgent appeal of La Via Campesina for global action against the use of famine as a weapon of genocide in Palestine.
Emmanuel Macron must take his responsibilities and pronounce sanctions against Netanyahu's government.
viacampesina.org/en/2025/05/u...
My newest piece on how to end starvation and famine in Gaza. The UN General Assembly must authorize peacekeepers to accompany humanitarian convoys.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🔴Merci au Rapporteur spécial de l'ONU @michelforst.bsky.social pour cette alerte sur l'inaction de @totalenergie.bsky.social face aux attaques répétées aux défenseurs de l'environnement mobilisés contre les projets Tilenga, #EACOP et Kingfisher en Ouganda
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