ICE agents chase farm workers in Ventura County, California. Photo: ABC7
The Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) denounces the Trump regime’s oppressive migrant deportation policy, which has subjected thousands of agricultural workers to increased vulnerability to abuse and rights violations.
On June 13, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided farms in Ventura County, […]
The Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) joins millions of working people worldwide in commemorating the May 1 International Labor Day. Despite intensifying political repression, we salute agricultural workers’ continuing struggle to assert our rights and welfare as productive forces that feed the world and create wealth.
We salute our continuing struggle against the callous exploitation […]
The Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) renewed its demand for substantial protection of the rights and welfare of agricultural workers amid worsening global food and climate crises. CAWI emphasized that, like the rest of working and rural peoples, agricultural workers are several times more vulnerable to hunger, poverty, and the impacts of a deteriorating […]
The Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) recently submitted a letter to the Philippine labor ministry to immediately allow the International Labor Organization (ILO) to conduct its High-Level Tripartite Mission (HLTM) to the Philippines to look into the serious violations of the ILO Convention 87.
It comes after newly appointed labor secretary Bienvenido Laguesma formally requested […]
NOTE: The Federation of Agricultural Workers (or UMA), a Philippine member of the Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) and its Steering Council, was maliciously tagged as a “terrorist group” by the Philippine National Security Council (NSC) due to its defense of agricultural workers’ rights to fair working conditions.
UMA’s social platforms, alongside other local organizations’ […]
The Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) welcomes the release of 83 farmers and land reform activists in the Philippines last June 12, after three days of detention based on clearly trumped-up charges.
On June 9, local police violently dispersed and arrested 91 people, including members of MAKISAMA-Tinang, a peasant group, and their supporters for participating […]
Joint statement
PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI)
We strongly condemn the recent killing of another farm worker leader in the Philippines. On June 27, Julius Broce Barellano died of gunshot wounds. Mr. Barellano was the chairperson of Hacienda Medina Farm Workers Association in Negros island in central Philippines. He was also […]
MANILA, Philippines- Malacañang’s announcement that Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes continues to enjoy President Aquino’s confidence does not bode well for the farm worker beneficiaries (FWB’s) in Hacienda Luisita (HL). It only reinforces the perception of the FWB’s and their advocates that both are united in ensuring the non-distribution of HL lands.
Sec. de […]