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Victory Against GM Golden Rice And Bt Eggplant In The Philippines Court, A Crucial Win In The Global Fight Against GMOs
Thursday, 25 April 2024, 5:14 am | PAN Asia Pacific
The resilience of farmers, consumers in the Philippines against GMO crops in their countries which have been vindicated by the Supreme Court have become a testament that people’s persistence prevails in the face of corporate capture of our agriculture ... More >>
Court Victory Vs. Golden Rice And Bt Eggplant In The Philippines ‘inspiring’
Sunday, 21 April 2024, 5:08 am | PAN Asia Pacific
The dedication of the Filipino people in the battle against Golden Rice and Bt eggplant inspires civil society and farmers’ movements elsewhere in Asia to thwart all efforts of agrochemical transnational corporations to push their hazardous technologies. More >>
End Forced Evictions In Perak, Ensure Farmers’ Rights And Food Security –PANAP
Friday, 27 October 2023, 8:47 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) condemns the eviction of farmers from their farmland in Kanthan, Tambun, Perak by Malaysian authorities last October 24 that resulted in the arrest of three activists and one local farmer, physical assault of one female ... More >>
Farmers Resist Corporate Control And Greenwashing In Asian Rice-based Food Systems
Wednesday, 18 October 2023, 7:55 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
Corporate efforts to control rice-based food systems are intensifying to the detriment of small farmers’ livelihoods and the food security of those who depend on the staple crop. Environmental and climate catastrophes are also bound to worsen with ... More >>
Zero Hope For Zero Hunger: Break The Chains Of Imperialism
Tuesday, 17 October 2023, 5:36 am | PAN Asia Pacific
Forward The Future Free Of Hunger, Dispossession, And Destruction! Unparalleled urgency marks our annual commemoration of World Hunger Day amid imperialist machinations to advance a sinister agenda to monopolize further and exploit global food systems ... More >>
Commitments In New Chemicals Framework Should Catalyze Strong Global Action On Pesticides
Wednesday, 4 October 2023, 6:52 am | PAN Asia Pacific
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International welcomes significant commitments towards the phase-out of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) in agriculture adopted by governments, the private sector, and other stakeholders at the Fifth International Conference ... More >>
Highly Hazardous Pesticides & Detoxifying Agriculture Are Make-or-break Issues At Critical Global Pollution Conference
Wednesday, 20 September 2023, 7:20 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
NGOs urge governments and UN agencies to act Key reforms on pesticides must be agreed at historic chemical pollution conference in September to address significant threats to human health and the environment Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) phase out ... More >>
FAO Director General Urged To Begin New Term With Action To End Pesticide Industry Partnership
Wednesday, 26 July 2023, 7:37 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
Today, 11 global civil society and Indigenous Peoples organizations representing small-scale farmers, agricultural workers, trade unions, and rights holders urged Mr. Qu Dongyu to begin his new term as Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture ... More >>
UNFSS+2 Is Pathway To More Hunger & Climate Catastrophe: Rural Peoples Stand Up For Radical Food Systems Transformation
Tuesday, 25 July 2023, 6:20 am | PAN Asia Pacific
Rural peoples and advocates across the globe warned that world hunger and interlinked food, human rights and climate crises will worsen as big corporations consolidate their control over the world food systems through the UN Food Systems Summit +2 (UNFSS), ... More >>
Protect Children’s Rights To A Clean And Healthy Environment, Phase-Out Highly Hazardous Pesticides!
Monday, 5 June 2023, 6:48 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
To commemorate World Environment Day 2023, PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and its partners launched its annual Protect Our Children from Toxic Pesticides campaign, calling for a global phase-out of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) by 2030. The United ... More >>
International Labor Day 2023: Agri-workers Renew Call For Rights Protection As Food & Climate Crises Worsen
Tuesday, 2 May 2023, 7:12 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
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 ... More >>
Rural Peoples In Global South To Mobilize 1 Million For Food, Land And Climate Justice
Thursday, 30 March 2023, 6:54 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
Rural peoples movements from Asia, Latin America and Africa launched the Global Peoples’ Caravan for Food, Land, and Climate Justice –an awareness-raising and mobilization campaign to demand governments to address the interconnected issues ... More >>
Rural Women Rise For Food, Land And Rights! Protect Women Who Feed The World!
Friday, 10 March 2023, 6:56 am | PAN Asia Pacific
On International Women’s Day, the Asian Rural Women’s Coalition (ARWC) stands in solidarity with all rural women in the region and across the world against the worsening global food crisis caused by neoliberal agriculture systems. The global ... More >>
#NoLandNoLife Features | Repression For Land And Profits
Thursday, 20 October 2022, 8:25 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
Over the past five years, at least two people from rural communities have been killed weekly in the struggles against land grabs, based on PANAP estimates. More than eight are arrested and detained weekly, and more than two are harassed or assaulted. Under ... More >>
Carry On With The Struggle For Land, Women’s Rights, Food Sovereignty, Dignity And Justice!
Saturday, 15 October 2022, 7:55 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
On International Rural Women’s Day, the Asian Rural Women’s Coalition (ARWC) stands in solidarity with all rural women across the world in defense of land, rights, sovereignty, dignity and justice against worsening attacks of fascist, exploitative ... More >>
Assert People’s Food Sovereignty, End Imperialist Destruction Of Local Food Systems
Friday, 14 October 2022, 5:34 am | PAN Asia Pacific
Imperialist plunder and destruction of local food systems through war and occupation, land and resource grabbing, and profiteering drive the global food crisis and must be countered with people's movements for land reform and food sovereignty. Representatives ... More >>
Eliminate Highly Hazardous Pesticides In Agriculture By 2030 – PANAP
Wednesday, 31 August 2022, 7:21 pm | PAN Asia Pacific
Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PANAP) joined PAN International and other CSOs in calling for the elimination of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) in agriculture by 2030, among other targets, at the Fourth meeting of the intersessional process ... More >>
New Report Reveals Unauthorised & Unsafe Use Of Chlorpyrifos & Hazardous Pesticides In India, Demands Stringent Action
Saturday, 13 August 2022, 5:57 am | PAN Asia Pacific
New report reveals serious problems of pesticide usage in India and points to poor regulation of hazardous agrochemicals. The current use pattern is implicated in widespread unauthorised uses of chlorpyrifos, fipronil, atrazine and paraquat in India, posing ... More >>
Golden Rice And The Push For GMOs Won’t Solve Food Crisis, It Will Make It Worse
Tuesday, 9 August 2022, 5:43 am | PAN Asia Pacific
Seeds are being colonised by big corporates. Rice, until now, is not yet fully colonised by the seed industry with farmers retaining the ability to save and replant those seeds. Rice is also a key staple food in many Global South countries which are currently ... More >>
Release Of Filipino Farmers, Activists From Jail Welcome, But Fight For Land, Justice Continues
Tuesday, 14 June 2022, 6:43 am | PAN Asia Pacific
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 ... More >>
