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STOP GOLDEN RICE! FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS!
International Day of Action | August 8
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From Manila to Dhaka, the resounding call of farmers, consumers and development networks to stop Golden Rice field trials and commercialization were issued through various forms and activities, commemorating the
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historic Golden Rice uprooting in Pili, Camarines Sur six years ago.
On August 8, various activities were simultaneously held in the Philippines, Indonesia and Bangladesh.
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Global Witness released its annual report on the killings of land and environmental defenders, revealing a trend on the criminalization of dissent.
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The mission validated numerous rights violations experienced by indigenous and farmer communities currently enforcing a provincial government restraining order by barricading against the Australian-Canadian mining giant. Support the people's barricade by signing the petition here.
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Around 16 student activists from the Indonesian People's Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) and the Papuan Student Community (KMP) of Ternate City, who were arrested and harrassed by the Ternate City Police, have now been released. Whereabouts of two Papuan youth protesters remain unknown.
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Defend Negros:
Day of Mourning and Solidarity
AUG 20
Know more about the state of terror in Negros, Philippines here.
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This research featured in Volume 2 Issue 8, August 2019 of Nature Sustainability used spatial data to investigate the drivers of the killings of environmental defenders and why are they at risk. Download here.
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PCFS member Roots for Equity is featured in PERSPECTIVES, one of UN Environment's publication series. The contribution focuses on possible systems for preserving biodiversity and sustainable methods of land use, as embraced by a farmers’ rights movement in Pakistan. Download here
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After studies have confirmed that vitamin A, converted from beta carotene, is very low in genetically modified golden rice, new evidence shows that the rice is also unable to hold the biochemical for long after harvest.
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The pressure to increase agricultural production has helped push about a quarter of the Earth’s ice-free land area into various states of degradation via loss of soil, nutrients and vegetation. Simultaneously, biodiversity has declined globally, largely because of deforestation, cropland expansion and unsustainable land-use intensification.
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In various parts of the Amazon, parish teams and the Brazilian bishops’ Pastoral Land Commission help communities defend their land against loggers, ranchers and industrial-scale farms. The work can be dangerous, because land conflicts are often violent, especially in the state of Para, where the Notre Dame de Namur Sisters work.
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Last month, volunteers and staff of the PCFS global secretariat visited the picket line of the striking workers of Peerless Producers Manufacturing Corp. (PEPMACO) at Canlubang, Laguna.
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PCFS facilitated the team building training with the staff of its member organization Ponlok Khmer in Preah Vihear, Cambodia from August 1 to 4.
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El Instituto Politécnico Tomás Katari , asociado al capítulo boliviano de Derechos Humanos democracia y desarrollo, conjuntamente con otras instituciones realizaron la actividad de un Foro Departamental de Defensoras y Defensores de Derechos Humanos por la democracia y el desarrollo.
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