January 2019
Wage Crisis of the Plantation Workers in Sri Lanka: Fair & Living Wage for the Plantation Workers
Background Information:
The Plantation People (Indian Origin Tamils) form a Minority community that consists of about 4.4% (2012) of the population in Sri Lanka and at present it is estimated as approximately 1.5 million. When in […]
September 2017
16 Days Of Global Action: Advance Food Sovereignty And Agroecology! Promote Youth’s Participation In Agriculture!
Advancing food sovereignty and agroecology
Studies and experiences1 of small food producers worldwide have demonstrated that agroecology (including all forms of biodiverse, integrated and diversified farming approaches combined with local knowledge systems) have sustained and fed […]
October 2016
April 2015
Commute the Death Penalty on Mary Jane Veloso and Other Victims of Human Trafficking!
Her father used to be a seasonal sugar agricultural worker (sacada) in Hacienda Luisita and even in Batangas up to the 1980’s. Her mother like him is a landless peasant. The back breaking work and […]
June 2012
Please sign the online petition to support the farmers and indigenous peoples in Southern Philippines in reclaiming their land
Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) has just concluded an international fact-finding mission in Mindanao, Philippines where PAN AP and its partners intervened in land conflict case that involved a palm oil […]
November 2011
Permanent People’s Tribunal Session on Agrochemical Transnational Corporations
On December 3 to 6, 2011, a Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) will convene to indict Agrochemical Transnationals for gross violations of human rights. An international opinion tribunal, the PPT will gather farmers, agricultural workers, Indigenous […]