Land rights do not just pertain to the right of ownership. They also refer to access, use, possession and occupation of land, and security of such use, possession or tenure.
Our sign-on statement has gathered 226 signatories from organizations across Asia and the globe, including Uganda, Thailand, Lebanon, Germany, Bolivia, Kenya, and Australia, as of today. This year’s Day of the Landless campaign has been fruitful with no little effort and contribution from organizations’ on-ground activities, workshops, and educational discussions such as by Masipag, Artist […]
Last March 29, farmers, peasants, indigenous peoples, and rights advocates in Asia gathered for this year’s global action of the #DayoftheLandless, organized by Asian Peasant Coalition (APC), to remember and highlight people’s struggles against exploitation, displacement, and neoliberal policies. “[There are] hardly any genuine farmer development and agrarian reform happened on a massive scale. In […]
The Asian Peasant Coalition (APC) along with the International League of Peoples Struggle – ILPS Commission 6, People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty – PCFS Global, Int’l Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self Determination and Liberation – IPMSDL, PAN Asia Pacific – PANAP, and the Asian Rural Women’s Coalition – ARWC jointly organize this year’s Day of […]
In almost five decades, imperialist powers—headed by the United States and institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and World Trade Organization—have imposed neoliberal restructuring throughout the Global South. Carried out by compliant neo-colonial states, these policies have eroded public support for agriculture, deregulated land and resource governance, and pried open rural economies […]
The UN marks 2026 to recognise rural women’s role in food, biodiversity stewardship, and community survival, but recognition alone cannot fix decades of land grabs, corporate control and militarisation of rural spaces. Recognition Without Rights is Not Enough Governments and institutions cannot applaud women farmers while ignoring landlessness, resource theft, climate crises, and corporate capture. […]
As we head toward the Second International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD+20) on 24-28 February in Cartagena, Colombia, farmers and Indigenous Peoples across Asia are being pushed off their lands in the name of “climate action.” From carbon offsets and mega-dams to plantations and so-called green infrastructure, false climate solutions have become […]
Across Southeast Asia, rural women farmers, agricultural and migrant workers, and Indigenous women sustain food systems and rural economies. Yet they face land dispossession, labour exploitation, hazardous working conditions, and systemic exclusion from social protection. The brief underscores that social justice for rural women cannot be achieved without secure access to land, labour rights, and […]
Unequal Fields amplifies the voices of rural women across Southeast Asia, exposing how landlessness, poverty wages, unsafe work, climate impacts, toxic pesticides, and the pandemic continue to deny them justice and protection. The report calls on governments to guarantee rural women’s rights, dignity, and equality.
PENANG, Malaysia – Fifty-five movements, cause-oriented groups, and non-government organizations from at least 18 countries across the world came together to support the peoples of Indonesia and Nepal who are resisting repression, corruption, and policies that undermine rights, livelihoods, and dignity. “Both countries are facing similar crises, rooted in the same issues: growing economic hardship, […]
Women constitute 60% of the agricultural labor force in India, yet they only own 13.96% of agricultural lands, according to the Agricultural Census 2015-2016. Indian society’s low regard of rural women means they cannot inherit or own land, making them economically dependent on others. Discriminatory practices deny women their basic rights, even though the Hindu […]
