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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 21h

📢 Across Africa, Asia & Latin America, extractive projects dispossess communities, damage ecosystems & livelihoods.

🌐 UN #BindingTreaty must introduce clear, enforceable global standards that prioritize #HumanRights & #Evironment over corporate profit.

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#StopCorporateImpunity

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 1d

📢 UN experts express concerns over pollution from Chinese-backed copper mining in eastern #Serbia, ahead of UN field visit.

They are seeking answers from the goverment and mining company regarding reports of heavy metals, excessive noise pollution affected local residents.

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 1d

Thunberg Confirms Abuse by Israeli Abductors, But Urges World to Focus on Gaza Genocide www.commondreams.org/news/greta-t...

Thunberg Confirms Abuse by Israeli Abductors, But Urges World to Focus on Gaza Genocide | Common Dreams

"This genocide and other genocides are being enabled and fueled by our own governments, our institutions, our media, and companies. It is our responsibility to end that complicity."

www.commondreams.org

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 2d

Israel’s war on #Gaza has dragged on far too long. Over the past two years, Israeli forces have killed over 66,000 people, including 15 of our staff.

We call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire, an end to the siege and access for independent humanitarian aid at scale.

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 6d

We condemn use of #starvation, famine as a weapon of genocide & other Israeli violations of the human right to food of the Palestinian people.

This includes stopping #GlobalSamudFlotilla from, seeking to cover non-fulfillment of states obligations under human rights & humanitarian law. #Gaza

FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 6d

FIAN International stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people and the peaceful humanitarian mission of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla which has been illegally boarded by Israeli armed forces.

We call on all states to ensure that retained flotilla members are released immediately. #Gaza #Starvation

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 6d

FIAN International stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people and the peaceful humanitarian mission of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla which has been illegally boarded by Israeli armed forces.

We call on all states to ensure that retained flotilla members are released immediately. #Gaza #Starvation

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 13d

Following their intervention at the UN #HumanRightsCouncil #Panama indigenous fishers met UN Special Rapporteur Albert K Barume and advocate for an end to government repression at an UNDROP discussion hosted by FIAN International.

Read more here: shorturl.at/DEzi1

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 13d

🌐When the UN General Assembly discusses non-communicable diseases today, they must consider how ultra-processed foods are driving an epidemic of obesity and ill health.

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#UPFs #Health #NCDs #Agroecology

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 19d

📢 View oral statement by Ngäbe Buglé fisher leader Alfonso Simon Raylan to #HumanRightsCouncil here.

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 20d

Raylan called on #UNDROP Working Group to urge #Panama to end fishing ban & violence against Indigenous fisher communities, recognize customary rights to territories & guarantee their right to participate in all decisions that affect their livelihoods, as enshrined in UNDROP.

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 20d

#IndigenousPeoples livelihoods undermined by industrial agribusiness, extractive industries & “fortress conservation” agendas, Panamanian fisher leader Rylan told #HumanRightsCouncil: shorturl.at/YOoAn @michaelfakhri.bsky.social

📢“This is not conservation, it is persecution,” he said.

FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 21d

Indigenous fisher leader Alfonso Simon Raylan calls on #Panama to end fishing ban, violence against Indigenous fisher communities: shorturl.at/FQ9l5 #UNDROP#WFFP #defendingpeasantsrights #CETIM
#IndigenousPeoples @michaelfakhri.bsky.social @carlosduarte11.bsky.social #UN #HumanRightsCouncil

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Carlos Duarte @carlosduarte11.bsky.social · 28d

The first 2025 report is now online: “Global Trends & Developments Affecting Peasants & Other People Living in Rural Areas” — by our UN Peasantry Working Group www.ohchr.org/sites/... 🧵 0/9 👉🏽

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Carlos Duarte @carlosduarte11.bsky.social · 28d

Ya esta online el primer informe 2025 "Tendencias y desarrollos globales que afectan a los campesinos y otras personas que viven en zonas rurales". Correspondiente a nuestro Grupo de Trabajo de Campesinado en la ONU www.ohchr.org/sites/... 0/10 👉🏽

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 26d

🌱 DEFENDING #RURALRIGHTS AT #HRC60 🌱

Crucial side event at the 60th #HumanRights Council session as we spotlight how #LatinAmerican peasant movements are mobilizing to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants ( #UNDROP ).

#PeasantRights #FoodSovereignty #LandRights

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 22d

Israel has committed genocide in the #Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds #OHCHR shorturl.at/RhHtf

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds

GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 26d

🌍 Why This Matters: These Latin American initiatives show UNDROP's potential as a powerful instrument of protection and empowerment for rural peoples globally.

Rural rights are human rights. When rural communities thrive, we all thrive.

bit.ly/4gm3MiQ

Advancing the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas through UNDROP: Challenges and good practices in Latin America | HRC60 Side Event

This side event to the 60th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC60), organized by FIAN International and CETIM, will highlight how peasant movements and rural organizations across Latin American a...

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 26d

💪Latin American rural movements are proving that organized communities + committed authorities = real change

🏛️Results from UNDROP Implementation: ✅Emerging jurisprudence ✅Legal reforms ✅Policy innovations securing land, water & seed access ✅Communities using UNDROP as both legal & political tool

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 26d

⚡ Key Issues We're Addressing:
- Corporate agribusiness destroying community-based food systems
- Blue Economy & 30x30 conservation encroaching on rural Commons
- Industrial projects privatizing lands & waters sustainably governed for generations
- Case spotlight: Panama's fisher peoples' resistance

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 26d

🚨 The Reality: Rural communities worldwide—fisher peoples, Indigenous Peoples, peasants, and pastoralists—face systematic discrimination, dispossession, and marginalization despite being the guardians of our planet's biodiversity.

@fianinternational.bsky.social @cetim-cetim.bsky.social

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 26d

🌱 DEFENDING #RURALRIGHTS AT #HRC60 🌱

Crucial side event at the 60th #HumanRights Council session as we spotlight how #LatinAmerican peasant movements are mobilizing to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants ( #UNDROP ).

#PeasantRights #FoodSovereignty #LandRights

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · 29d

UN experts stand in solidarity with Global Sumud Flotilla, demand full protection of all passengers.

shorturl.at/O2xVZ

UN experts stand in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, demand full protection of all passengers

GENEVA – United Nations experts* today urged Israel to cease all threats of harm against the Global Sumud Flotilla and ensure it proceeds unhindered in its mission to deliver humanitarian aid to the c...

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · Sep 8

Urgent call from our allies La Via Campesina to strengthen solidarity with #Palestine and pressure for #sanctions against #Israel.

#Gaza #Genocide shorturl.at/gu0z6 @viacampesinabe.bsky.social @eurovia.org

Urgent Call to strengthen solidarity with Palestine and pressure for sanctions against Israel | Via Campesina

Palestine Solidarity La Via Campesina calls on its member organisations and allies to strengthen their actions in solidarity with the Palestinian people. In Palestine, the Israeli occupation regime is...

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · Sep 5

U.S government has sanctioned Palestinian human rights groups PCHR @alhaq.bsky.social & Al-Mezan, advocating for Palestinian rights, an end to US-backed genocide & holding culprits responsible for international crimes.

📢 shorturl.at/qmGwt

#LoudAgainstGenocide #EndImpunity #Gaza

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FIAN International @fian-international.bsky.social · Sep 5

FIAN joins Al-Haq, PCHR, and Al-Mezan in condemning US sanctions and calling for global solidarity to end #genocide in #Gaza and oppression of Palestinians.

www.alhaq.org/advocacy/266...

Al-Haq, PCHR, and Al-Mezan Condemn US Sanctions and Call for Global Solidarity to End the Genocide in Gaza and the Oppression of Palestinians

Gaza/Ramallah, 5 September 2025 &mdash; While the ongoing Israeli, US - backed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza is entering its third year, the United States (US), rather than end its complic...

www.alhaq.org

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