On the 18th of September an international delegation of 15 La Via Campesina leaders from India, Bangladesh, Korea, European Union, United States, Brazil, Nicaragua, Mexico, Mozambique, Dominican Republic, Cuba, accompanied by 50 members of FSPI as well as representatives from several international NGOs intended to visit the West Nusa Tenggara Province.
The delegation was to complete a mission to verify violations of peasant rights occurring while defending their livelihoods, which were committed by the local government, police, private sector and paramilitary actors.
The delegation had received an official licence from Jakarta Central Government to visit the area. This license was unexpectedly and without explanation unilaterally withdrawn on the eve of the visit.
PRESS RELEASE 22 September 2005 At 6pm today, an informal meeting on “complementary approaches†will take place in the WTO. Civil society organisations are astonished and appalled by the underhand co-ordinated attempt from the EC, Japan, Australia, Switzerland, Korea and Taiwan to change, mid-way in the negotiations, the negotiating format all WTO members had agreed […]
Executive summary The World Trade Organisation (WTO) traditionally suspends most of its activities during August with negotiators taking a month-long summer break. As the Doha Round negotiations are enmeshed in gridlock, the recess this year will hopefully also be a time of reflection. The WTO General Council (GC) meeting of 27 and 29 July 2005, […]
8-10 September 2005 We, the representatives of farming communities, social movements and the civil society organizations in Pakistan, are gathered here in Bhurban to demonstrate our solidarity with the G-20 and express our concerns and demands about WTO Agreement on Agriculture. We welcome the honorable delegates of the G-20 Ministerial Meeting being held at Bhurban […]
Declaration of the members of the South Asian Parliaments assembled in Islamabad, Pakistan, 29-30 August 2005, for the South Asian Parliamentarians Forum on WTO Hong Kong Ministerial Aware that the sixth ministerial meeting of the WTO, which is scheduled from December 13-18,2005 in Hong Kong will have massive consequences for the developing countries as well […]
WTO in Crisis; Groups Offer Alternative Plan to Protect People’s Food Sovereignty Halt Agriculture Negotiations in the WTO! Protect People’s Food Sovereignty! Creating Crisis The governments of both developed and developing countries face the choice of sacrificing the rights of the majority of their populations to food sovereignty and decent employment in return for increased […]
Final statement read in the G-33 meeting. It was read by FSPI as representative of Indonesia farmers, “hoping that the statement will push stronger for G-33 not to accommodate another weak position” AGRICULTURE IS OUR WAY OF LIFE Appeal of Farmers Organisation and Non-Government Organization To All Delegation of G-33 Ministerial Meeting Jakarta, Indonesia 11-12 […]
AFA Execom Execom Meeting and Commemoration of Death Anniversary of Patriot Lee Kyung Hae Sept. 9-15, 2005, Seoul Korea Philippines August 12 – Deepening of Understanding of WTO Issues with Pakisama National Council August 22 – Civil society consultation on WTO, PhilDHRRA Partnership Center Sept 16 – Dialogue with Philippine government agricultural trade negotiators Thailand […]
