#NoLandNoLife | Filipino farm workers hit deception, human rights atrocities and land grabbing
MANILA, Philippines – As the country awaits the last State of the Nation Address (SONA) by President Benigno S. Aquino III set next week, the Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (Union of Agricultural Workers or […]
Agricultural workers get slave-like wages, federation says
The national federation of agricultural workers fears that sugar workers would be paid even less this crop year as the tariff for imported sugar would go down to just five percent because of the ASEAN […]
Peasant Women International Mission Confirms Landgrabbing of Highest PH Gov’t Officials
“Land is at the very heart of human rights, of women’s rights.” The Peasant Women Fact-Finding Mission (IFFM) in Hacienda Luisita and in Mascap, Rodriguez, Rizal confirmed cases of landgrabbing involving high government officials in […]
SONA 2014 & Hacienda Luisita: What happened to BS Aquino’s promises?
In the President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) last year, President BS Aquino made special mention of his family’s controversial sugar estate, Hacienda Luisita with promises of land distribution and social justice. “Kung may […]
Lupa at Hustisya (Land and Justice): Hacienda Luisita
A new video (in Filipino) by the Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA), Tudla and the Luisita Watch network narrates the saga of farmworkers and reports on the current state of land reform and […]
Int’l agri workers group appeals to PH Pres. Aquino to order release of Luisita farm workers
The Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) today condemned the latest incident of atrocities in the Hacienda Luisita sugarcane plantation in the Philippines. On Sunday, 22 December, police arrested eight farm workers who tried to […]
UNCTAD report citing need for food sovereignty, welcome, but best hope lies in peasant struggles
International groups Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP), the Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) and the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) welcomed the release of the Trade and Environment Review 2013 published […]
PAN AP calls for immediate release of Filipino agrarian reform advocates
PENANG, Malaysia – International advocacy group Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) today asked Philippine authorities to immediately and unconditionally release 11 Filipino agrarian reform advocates, including a member of Philippine Congress […]
Agricultural Workers Call on Governments to Respect Workers’ Rights
(Penang, Malaysia) – The Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) concludes a two-day Congress in Penang today, (5-6 September 2013), where matters relevant to agricultural workers were discussed. Participants came from the Asia Pacific, Africa, […]
Farmers in Hacienda Luisita Walk-out of DAR Meeting
Farm workers of Hacienda Luisita belonging to Alyansa ng mga Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (AMBALA) and United Luisita Workers Union (ULWU) walked-out of a meeting organized by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in […]
India is not for sale: Foreign investments can’t be the bedrock of Indian economy
In his budget speech, lasting for 2 hours, Mr. Chidambaram, the finance minister, with undoubted eloquence talked much about the poverty to equity, churned out thoughts and principles of taxing the rich, empowering women and […]
Proceed with the HLI audit groups told DAR
Farmers belonging to the Alyansa ng mga Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita and its mother federation the Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura today told the Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio Delos Reyes to proceed with […]