Wire| Farmers, not corporations, will transform the food system
The UN Food Systems Summit is tainted by corporate interests — the people are building an alternative.
Wire| Farmers, not corporations, will transform the food system
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International community joins ‘Global Day of Action to End the US-Duterte Regime’
International community joins ‘Global Day of Action to End the US-Duterte Regime’
Several organizations in other countries have been preparing for their simultaneous, coordinated protests in front of Philippine embassies and consulates to demand the prosecution of Duterte’s crimes against humanity, and call for an end to U.S. military aid to the Philippines, among others.
Lawyers, academe oppose presidential spox’s bid to UN body
Lawyers, academe oppose presidential spox’s bid to UN body
Harry Roque is a “political partisan who has actively demonstrated contempt for the rule of law and, with specific relevance to the Commission, has undermined the supremacy of human rights and international law.”
Afghanistan in focus: New challenges and opportunities
Afghanistan in focus: New challenges and opportunities
It seems that from being a direct colony of the world’s top superpower, Afghanistan will now be subject to competition for influence by other global powers.
Statement | We unite in the struggle for life
Statement | We unite in the struggle for life
The death of the Amazon and other Brazilian unique biomes, such as Cerrando and Pantanal, will not only impact its frontline communities; in the accelerating collapse of our climate, the extinction of the rainforest will endanger ecosystems everywhere. In this way, the fate of Brazil's Indigenous peoples is entwined with the fate of our world
African young women resisting beyond borders
African young women resisting beyond borders
In some cases, issues that have been historically treated as simply "women’s issues" are slowly making it to the center of political contestation. Younger people on the continent are pushing for changes which even their elders, including those who reject the status quo, aren't providing. Feminist voices are gaining prominence as a crucial part of this resistance.
Under Bolsonaro, attacks on Amazonians have skyrocketed
Under Bolsonaro, attacks on Amazonians have skyrocketed
A new report finds that violence against Indigenous people, quilombolas and peasants is on the rise as Bolsonaro-enabled capitalists continue to eat away at the Amazon.
There is no Palestine-Israel conflict, only illegal occupation of Palestinian lands
There is no Palestine-Israel conflict, only illegal occupation of Palestinian lands
It is dangerous to view the ongoing attacks as a mere “conflict". History would teach us that the ongoing brutal crimes against the Palestinian people are because of the illegal occupation of their lands, ethnic cleansing of their people, and annexation of their territories by Israel state forces.
End the Nakba now
End the Nakba now
Since 1948, the people of Palestine have lost more than 85% of their land to Israel. The militarisation of the Israeli state has now confined them to a series of open-air prisons, in which the Israeli state routinely rehearses its cruel technologies of war — poisoning the soil, contaminating the water, and terrorising the people.
William Ramsey Clark: The U.S. attorney general who fought against U.S. war crimes
William Ramsey Clark: The U.S. attorney general who fought against U.S. war crimes
"As we painstakingly arouse, organize and mobilize against US Imperialism, we will continue to cherish Ramsey Clark’s spirit of internationalism that waged a remarkable and principled struggle for the peoples of the Global South from the belly of the beast."
Why is the Food Systems Summit silent on corporate land grabs?
Why is the Food Systems Summit silent on corporate land grabs?
Indeed, there is a need, as the Asia Peasant Coalition puts it, for the farmers “to organize and mobilize for our own people’s summit together with other marginalized and oppressed sectors that suffer the gravest hunger and poverty because of imperialist control and domination over the world’s food and agriculture.”
Paris Commune at 150: Reliving lessons of the revolution
Paris Commune at 150: Reliving lessons of the revolution
“Our task now is to learn from the Paris Commune and think what needs to be done in the coming decades so that many of the debacles that the workers had the courage to face before will be turned into a situation wherein there is nothing else to do but turn down the existing state power.”
Mass killing of civilians in the Philippines appalls United Nations
Mass killing of civilians in the Philippines appalls United Nations
“We are deeply worried that these latest killings indicate an escalation in violence, intimidation and harassment and red tagging of human rights defenders.” -- UN
G20 is gathering – debt justice is our demand
G20 is gathering – debt justice is our demand
As the G20 meet to discuss the global economic recovery, the Debt Justice group calls for a radical break with extraction and austerity and proposes a new system in its place.
Groups push anew for an end to US military aid amid recent attacks on Lumad schools
Groups push anew for an end to US military aid amid recent attacks on Lumad schools
The recent attacks on Lumad bakwit school prompted the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) to call for support for the Philippine Human Rights Act (PHRA), a proposed measure to stop military aid to the Philippines.
Maduro’s bus and Venezuela’s El Caracazo
Maduro’s bus and Venezuela’s El Caracazo
El Caracazo in 1989 and the current Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela show that resistance to imperialist plunder and mass immiseration and murder of the people through the IMF-WB and the whole neoliberal project is possible and the absolute right and duty of the people.
Filipinos bike for Myanmar’s democracy
Filipinos bike for Myanmar’s democracy
Bayan-NCR denounced the Philippine Government’s "shameful withdrawal from the UNHRC resolution yet we find this unsurprising given the Duterte Administration’s consistent refusal for an investigation on human rights abuses in our own country.”
US firms behind Agent Orange stand trial in France
US firms behind Agent Orange stand trial in France
Trân Tô Nga, a 78-year-old woman who fell victim to the herbicidal chemical cocktail known as Agent Orange, is taking the firms responsible for its production to court.
The Indian peoples’ historic uprising needs global support
The Indian peoples’ historic uprising needs global support
“The economic model of India is characterized by a huge marginalization of the agricultural sector, and this is because of the deliberate undervaluing of the primary produce of farmers. The people who are dependent on primary production have incomes that keep on shrinking. They cannot produce much, not because they are inefficient but because what they are producing are actually of low value to the nation. The agricultural sector has collapsed really hard especially this pandemic.”
Global group of lawyers to hold accountable red-taggers of Filipino colleagues
Global group of lawyers to hold accountable red-taggers of Filipino colleagues
IADL President Jeanne Mirer said the attacks on Filipino lawyers are in violation of international law including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders, the UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers, the Convention against Torture and even of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, among others.
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