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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 […]
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 […]
As the world marks World Food Day today, we join the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) in exposing the real situation facing farmers and other small food producers, especially in the poor countries, one that is characterized by worsening hunger and poverty and greater political repression that are figuratively and literally killing rural communities.
Indeed, it is […]
Joint statement issued by the Asian Peasant Coalition (APC); Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI); Asian Rural Women’s Coalition (ARWC); People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS); PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP); Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP); Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria (AGRA) of Indonesia; Sarawak Dayak Iban Association (SADIA) of Malaysia; Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT); Roots […]
Statement to mark the International Human Rights Day collectively issued by the PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP); Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria (AGRA) of Indonesia, National Fisheries Solidarity Movement (NAFSO) of Sri Lanka; Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) of the Philippines; Human Development Organization (HDO) of Sri Lanka; Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA) of the […]
Statement by the Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) on the 10th anniversary of the Hacienda Luisita massacre (For additional information on the infamous massacre that killed seven farmworkers on November 16, 2004, please visit http://luisitawatch.wordpress.com/)
The Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) joins the farmworkers of Hacienda Luisita in the Philippines and their supporters in […]
Honourable Chair, Distinguished Delegates, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am P.P Sivapragasam, a member of the Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI) and representing the Civil Society Organizations.
First of all, I would like to table here our deepest sadness that one of our CSO colleague and an international activist Ms Chandrika Sharma from India was on […]