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📌This week, FIAN International & Christian Aid supported land defenders from Sierra Leone at the UPR pre-session in Geneva 💪They called on states to issue strong, concrete recommendations to the government of Sierra Leon to strengthen corporate accountability, fully implement the Customary Land Act

🌱PLAYLIST ✨ Seeds of Resistance in West Africa Check out our new playlist: bit.ly/4txyD2m

The German supermarket chain EDEKA misleads consumers by marketing palm oil products that are supposedly produced in a "sustainable" manner. This was the court ruling, which upheld a lawsuit brought by @foodwatchde.bsky.social, supported by ECCHR. www.ecchr.eu/en/press-rel...

🌍 On the occasion of the UPR Pre-session, we invite you to an exchange with human rights defenders working on environmental & climate justice and ⚖️ natural resource governance. 📍 Voices from Solomon Islands, Mozambique, Namibia & Sierra Leone will share. 🤝 Join the conversation.

⚠️ FIAN International and allied organisations are raising our voices before the Constitutional Court to stop the eviction of 31 peasant families in Durán. ✊ Justice must be on the side of those who feed us, not those who seek to expel them from their land.

UN experts* today expressed deep concern regarding the escalating use of police custody and criminal proceedings against farmers and agricultural trade union leaders in France, following the arrest of 52 people during peaceful protests in Paris this month. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

🌍Global Movements Unite: ICARRD+20 and the Fight for Land, Territory, and the Commons Social movements and Indigenous Peoples are rallying behind the Second International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development. 🔥 📅 February 24-28, 2026 📍 Cartagena, 🇨🇴 Hosted by Government of Colombia

FIAN International condemns the military actions of the USA against Venezuela in clear breach of the UN Charter (Art.2.4) & urges the states of the UN to adopt effective action to protect state`s sovereignty, the rule of law and the right to self-determination and human rights of Venezuelan People

FIAN Internacional se une a las casi 1000 organizaciones que han rechazando la violación del derecho internacional, en la Carta de Naciones Unidas (art.2.4) y el derecho interamericano por gobierno de los Estados Unidos mediante acciones militares en Venezuela.

📢 3rd Nyéléni forum: Building global solidarity for systemic transformation ⚠️ The new edition of the Nyéléni newsletter is online! 🌈 From 6 to 13 September 2025, the city of Kandy in Sri Lanka hosted the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum. www.fian.org/en/3rd-nyele...

🌾 Seeds Carry More Than DNA—They Carry Memory, Resistance, and Identity. Peasant and native seeds are more than what we plant in the soil. They are living archives of culture, knowledge, and belonging. When traditional seeds are lost, we lose entire worlds. 🌍💔

🚨The Struggle for Freedom: Seed laws designed for industrial agriculture are pushing peasant seed practices to the margins & criminalizing them Commercial standards demand❌Uniformity❌Stability❌Homogeneity But peasant & native seeds are✅Heterogeneous✅In constant evolution✅Adapted to local conditions

🌱 Living Seeds, Living Knowledge: How Peasant Communities Are Safeguarding Our Future Dynamic seed management by peasant communities isn't just farming—it's a pillar of the right to food, self-determination, and biodiversity conservation.

🌐 Digital Rights Meet Food Rights at WSIS+20. Join our virtual side-event: "Protecting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Digital Age - Spotlight on the Right to Food" 📅 December 15 | 8:00-9:15 AM ET @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social @itforchange.bsky.social

📊 Data is Power: The Hidden Violence Against Women Street Vendors This year, the Supermarket Watch, by FIAN, Grain & StreetNet International, is shining a light on the women who feed our communities—but whose safety and dignity are under constant threat.

👀 Lima Just Changed the Game for Global Seed Control Something major just went down at the ITPGRFA session. The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources collapsed into chaos. Consensus broke. And behind it all? A power play most people never saw coming.

🌱Seeds of Resistance: Historic Peasant Exchange Launches in West Africa 🌾A 2-week peasant-to-peasant exchange has just kicked off, bringing together movements from Colombia, Mali, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger, Guinea, Ghana, Senegal, Sudan &Tunisia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cat5...

🌱🌀 WHERE SEEDS ARE BORN, RESISTANCE TAKES ROOT 🌾💚From Latin America —where some of the most diverse seeds are produced, preserved, & resisted — we reaffirm: The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources #ITPGRFA must protect what has been collectively created & cared for across generations.

🌱 LIMA: THE BATTLE FOR SEEDS Who controls the future ? The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources (ITPGRFA) is at a crossroads. 🌾 Peasant and Indigenous communities who have cared for them for generations VS 🏢 Corporations seeking to expand their control.

Marks the 16 Days of Activism against gender based violence, new edition of 'Supermarket watch' highlight the vulnerability that women street & market traders endure while making a living and contribute to local economy. grain.org/e/7333 @fian-international.bsky.social @margteixeira.bsky.social

✊BUILDING POWER FOR FOOD JUSTICE IN #CHAD✊ In N'Djamena, 35 civil society actors gather at CEFOD for intensive training on the #RtFN rooted in #genderjustice & decolonial framework. Organized by FIAN International & CSAPR (Comité de Suivi de l'Appel à la Paix et à la Réconciliation au Tchad)

Today we celebrate #WorldFisheriesDay and recognize the importance of sustainable fisheries in maintaining the livelihoods of communities and in ensuring healthy ocean ecosystems. 🐟 Find out more with this IPBES#WorldFisheriesDayinfographic.

🌐 Multilateralism from below: building people power. 📢Learn how social movements, Indigenous Peoples & civil society groups challenge structural power imbalances from the local to international level in the latest FIAN International newsletter. 📄 shorturl.at/D5q8j #agroecology #foodsovereignty

🌐COP 30 Side Event tomorrow: Prospects & challenges for real people-led climate solutions. 🚨Frontline communities forging people-led climate solutions grounded in their lived realities & struggles for justice. 📢Join FIAN Colombia & allies to hear more. #COP30 #PeoplesSummit #IndigenousPeoples

🚨 As the world approaches climate collapse, corporations can still act with impunity – prioritizing profits over planet. ⚖️ Corporate accountability must be central in government climate agendas. 📢 Binding obligations. Not greenwashing. 📄https://shorturl.at/BFJoB #COP30 #BindingTreaty

🌐 Global land grab threatens climate & food security. 📢 Time for international cooperation on land redistribution to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss & enable just transitions. 📄 lnkd.in/dxcev3s2 #COP30 #PeoplesSummit #ICARRD+20

🚨 Natural resource grabbing & concentration of land in fewer hands exacerbates climate change. 📢 The solutions lie with small-scale food providers & #IndigenousPeoples. Redistributive tenure policies are key to tackling #ClimateCrisis 📄 shorturl.at/GfMC6 #COP30 #PeoplesSummit #ICARRD+20

🌍Genuine climate solutions must recognize fisher peoples as: ✔️ Rights holders ✔️ Knowledge holders ✔️ Key actors 📢 They are an essential part of the struggle for #ClimateJustice, #FoodSovereignty & protection of aquatic ecosystems. 📄https://shorturl.at/Fkf6x #COP30 #ClimateCrisis #PeoplesSummit

🚨States exclude fisher peoples from climate policy & decision-making. 🚨Instead of supporting community strategies grounded in human rights & local knowledge, they promote top-down interventions exacerbating inequality & marginalization. 📄https://shorturl.at/Fkf6x #COP30 #PeoplesSummit

📢 At #PeoplesSummit Towards #COP30, fisher peoples from around the world are raising their voices against false climate solutions that displace communities, destroy ecosystems, and violate human rights. 📄https://shorturl.at/Fkf6x #ClimateCrisis

🌍 NEW NYÉLÉNI NEWSLETTER: Rooted in Resistance, Territories for Climate Justice 🌍 The latest edition is live! 📰 🏞️ Territories = More Than Land Climate justice cannot exist without territorial justice. www.fian.org/en/newslette...

📚 NEW RESOURCE: Rural Peoples' Right to Participation Handbook 📚 The UN Working Group on UNDROP just released a comprehensive report on rural peoples' right to participation. 🔗 Access the Handbook: defendingpeasantsrights.org/.../handbook...

#BindingTreaty negotiations close PRESS RELEASE ⚡️Leadership from the Global South drives UN negotiations to end corporate impunity www.stopcorporateimpunity.org/press-releas...

✊ 11TH SESSION #BINDINGTREATY NEGOTIATIONS WRAP The last day of the 11th session of the Binding Treaty negotiations just concluded and it's been a powerful week. Dipti Bhatnagar from @JusticiaAmbiental reports: @stoptncimpunity.bsky.social @foeint.bsky.social @tninstitute.bsky.social

📍DAY 4 #BingingTreaty: Progress With Loopholes & Bold Action Against Corporate Capture Joseph Purugganan, from @focussouth.bsky.social reports: Provisions discussions brought both advances and persistent problems. @stoptncimpunity.bsky.social @foeint.bsky.social t.bsky.social

⚖️ JOINT & LIABILITY IN #BINDINGTREATY NEGOTIATIONS We welcome the inclusion of joint & several liability in the treaty but the current wording has some loopholes that let corporations off the hook.

⚖️#BINDINGTREATY, CURRENT LEGAL SYSTEM FAILS COMMUNITIES ⚖️ "While they count profits, we count the dead." Indigenous groups and organizations in the Amazon, affected by the operations of oil companies in Ecuador, denounce repression by the government of Daniel Noboa. elpais.com/planeta-futu...

⚖️#BINDINGTREATY, CURRENT LEGAL SYSTEM FAILS COMMUNITIES ⚖️ Adrian Zulu, form FIAN International Zambia exposed how Zambia's legal system fails rural communities seeking remedy from corporate abuses. @stoptncimpunity.bsky.social

⚖️ #BINDINGTREATY ON PREVENTION, REDRAFTING ON DEBATE Chair's redraft of Articles 4-11 — shared only days before ⏰FIRST: States and CSOs need written input time until at least February 2026. You can't drop major redrafts at the last minute and expect thorough analysis @stoptncimpunity.bsky.social

📍DAY 3 REPORT: Important Developments on the 11th TNC #BindingTreaty negociations 📍 Alberto Villareal from @atalc_org reports: Yesterday's session was mainly on implementation mechanisms brought both progress and troubling resistance. @stoptncimpunity.bsky.social @atalc.bsky.social

💧WHEN COMMUNITIES WAKE UP TO FIND THEIR WATER GONE💦 A powerful testimony from FIAN Zambia exposed the brutal reality of voluntary corporate frameworks, on the African side event on the 11th session on TNC #BindingTreaty negotiations.

⚡"GREEN" EXTRACTIVISM IS STILL EXTRACTIVISM 📅SIDE EVENT on the 11th Session on TNC #BindingTreaty negotiations, "The Need for a Legally Binding Treaty in the Context of the Global Rush for Critical Minerals" @stoptncimpunity.bsky.social @cetim-cetim.bsky.social @escrnet.bsky.social

"The #CorporateLobby present here as 'business associations' are a threat to the treaty and to human rights. For the #BindingTreaty to become an instrument of justice, the process must be free from corporate influence, as this room should be." -Pierre Maison @viacampesina.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

"As a community affected by corporate crimes, we don't have access to justice, let alone reparations. With voluntary frameworks, corporate crimes continue. We need a strong #BindingTreaty with obligations now. Peoples' lives are not optional." - Maritza Criollo @udapt.bsky.social / FoE Ecuador

"Like the Chevron case in Ecuador shows, favourable judgments for communities don't guarantee remedy, since transnational corporations can leave the country to dodge responsibility. We need joint and several liability and a #BindingTreaty to close legal loopholes." Antonio Salvador Asian Task Force

📍DAY 2. 11th Session TNCs #BindingTreaty Negotiations Marta Ribera (Observatori DESC) reports: discussions centered on a crucial principle, Human rights MUST come before trade and investment treaties. @stoptncimpunity.bsky.social @cetim-cetim.bsky.social @foeint.bsky.social @escrnet.bsky.social

Corporate climate criminals like Chevron, Total and Shell and their financiers, continue to build their empire on Palestinian lives. In solidarity with the Palestinian people, we call on movements and people everywhere to pressure those who fuel and profit from the genocide to end their complicity.

⚡PRESS RELEASE Human rights violations by corporations and their complicity in genocide take centre stage at the United Nations #BindingTreaty negotiations on transnational corporations and human rights open following mass demo in support of Palestine www.stopcorporateimpunity.org/press-releas...