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