Kathmandu. KMP demands justice for veteran peace advocate, peasant rights defender Randall 'Randy' Echanis, a media statement by KMP mentioned. Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) denounces in the strongest terms the brutal and heinous killing of its national deputy secretary general, Randall "Ka Randy" Echanis, today August 10....more

Kathmandu. International League of Peoples' Struggle Philippines (ILPS Philippines) strongly denounced the assassination of the veteran peasant leader this morning and demanded justice for Randall "Randy" Echanis. ILPS Philippines released a media statement today to condemn the brutal assassination of the veteran peasant leader Randall Echanis, who was...more

Kathmandu. The exiled founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) comrade Jose Maria Sison strongly condemned the murder of comrade Randall (Randy) Echanis, a veteran peasant leader of the Philippines. In a statement released today, veteran communist leader Comrade Jose Mario Sison, who is also the...more

Kathmandu. The People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS), an international network of peasants and civil society organizations condemns the killing of the popular Philippino peasant leader and peace advocate Randall "Randy" Echanis. The septuagenarian peasant leader Echanis was stabbed to death this morning by the state agents in...more

Kathmandu. La Via Campesina South Asia strongly opposes the Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC) which is currently underway on two South Asian Countries: Nepal and Sri Lanka. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a bilateral United States’ foreign assistance agency’ established by the US Congress in 2004. The South...more

The demise of the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung on July 8, 1994 was a great loss and gave indelible pain to the whole of Korean nation and the progressive people of the world. President Kim Il Sung made immortal achievements for the country, nation and people...more

Kathmandu. The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) expressed its solidarity with the Filipino people – the LGBTQ+ community, jeepney drivers, Indigenous Peoples, farmers, and all the other marginalized sectors – for their rights and welfare, especially amid the country’s unabated COVID-19 pandemic. In a media statement released on...more

Kathmandu. World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) expressed its solidarity with the US working-class movement. WFTU Coordinating Committee organized a press meet at Kathmandu on June 19, 2020 followed by a solidarity programme. The leaders of the WFTU Affiliate Unions CONEP, NEFON, NTUF, ANTUC, REFONT, DEFONT, DECONT, ANTRUF...more

The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) slams the blatant railroading of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. Its passage would further endanger the lives of rural peoples and food sovereignty advocates in the Philippines. Prior pandemic, state-perpetrated peasant killings are already taking place, and they never stopped amid...more

We, civil society organizations, grassroots groups and advocates for the welfare of marginalized sectors, call for the revocation of the 2019 Strategic Partnership between the United Nations (UN) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its implications for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We express our grave...more

We mark the Day of the Landless today with utmost concern as the landless rural people have been among the most vulnerable to the impacts of the COVID-19 global pandemic. With them are the small farmers with precarious land ownership or control, and those from landless peasant families...more

Kathmandu. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic around the globe and governments rush to contain its spread, often with restrictive lockdown, 119 peasants organizations from 30 countries and 5 regions called for the assertion of the rights and welfare of the rural and all toiling peoples. The organizations made a...more

We, 350 representatives of peasants, landless peasants and agricultural workers, small producers of food and different agricultural commodities & agro-forestry, youth and women peasants, fisher folks, livestock holders and pastoralists, agricultural co-operatives, organic producers, Dalits and Adivasis, agricultural experts, peasants' organizations and coalitions, community-based organizations, civil society organizations,...more

Kathmandu. Bishnu Prasad Chaudhary has been appointed the first Chairman of the Tharu Commission of Nepal. Tharu Commission was established to defend the rights of the indigenous people of Tharu Communities as provisioned by the new Constitution of Nepal. On Thursday, HE President Bidya Devi Bhandari appointed him and...more

The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS) condemns the attempted murder of Agnes Kharshiing and her two companions last Thursday, 8 November 2018 in East Jaintia Hills district, Meghalaya state, northeast of India. Kharshiing, president of the Civil Society Women’s Organization, is a prominent women’s and land rights...more