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 […]
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The Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) condemns the massacre of nine agricultural workers, including four women and two minors, allegedly by 40 armed goons on October 20 in Hacienda Nene, Sagay City, Negros Occidental, and calls on the Duterte government to immediately bring to justice the perpetrators of such heinous and inhumane […]
“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 the Philippines. “Landgrabbing deprives women and their families of their right to livelihood, food and the safety and welfare of […]
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 isa man pong paksang paboritong ikabit sa pangalan ko, ito ay ang Hacienda Luisita,” Aquino said, while claiming that land […]
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 stop the clearing operations of the Tarlac Development Corp. (TADECO), arguing that the area is already covered by government’s land […]
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 by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) for stressing the need to achieve food sovereignty and empowering […]
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 representing farmers and workers, whom the local police have arrested last 17 September 2013.
Those detained are from different peasant organizations […]
(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, and North America.
Health and environmental problems caused by pesticide exposure and the more vulnerable sectors like women and migrant workers, […]
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 Tarlac City on July 16, 2013.
According to AMBALA acting chairperson Florida “Pong” Sibayan, “it was obvious that DAR was railroading […]