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PRESS RELEASE, 16 OCTOBER 2008
Millions of People observe October 16 as World Foodless Day
A Global Day of Simultaneous Actions that resist forces
maintaining the Financial and Food Crises
Today, 16 October, 2008, millions of farmers, agricultural workers, fisherfolks, pastoralists and herders, indigenous peoples,...
PRESS STATEMENT BY IBON, 16 OCTOBER 2008
GLOBALIZATION, PROFITEERING, LACK OF GENUINE AGRARIAN REFORM BEHIND WORSENING FOOD CRISIS
Civil society groups call October 16 ‘World Foodless Day’
As the world celebrates World Food Day today, research group IBON join civil society groups worldwide in denouncing globalization polices and corporate profiteering,...
PRESS RELEASE BY IMSE ON WORLD FOOD DAY, 16 OCTOBER 2008
Press Release on World Food Day
The world is facing unprecedented food crisis in recent times. Hunger and poverty have been intensified in last decades, despite several promises and interventions like Millennium Development Goals and promises taken during World...
CONSUMERS INTERNATIONAL KUALA LUMPUR OFFICE (CI KL) EXTENDS ITS SUPPORT TO PAN AP’S WORLD FOODLESS DAY ON 16 OCTOBER 2008
World Foodless Day
Recent increases in the price of food have had an impact on consumers around the world. Although international prices have dropped slightly in recent months, we are unlikely to see a return to stable and low prices for some time...
PRESS STATEMENT BY TENAGANITA ON WORLD FOODLESS DAY AND INTERNATIONAL RURAL WOMEN'S DAY, 15 OCTOBER 2008
STOP THE RAPE AND TRAFFICKING OF INDIGENOUS AND RURAL WOMEN IN MALAYSIA. RESPECT THE RIGHTS TO LAND AND LIVELIHOOD AND FOOD SECURITY OF PEOPLE
Today the world remembers in a special way, international rural women’s day. Rural women, both globally and in Malaysia are the most marginalized, poorest and exploited group. Yet, they contribute to 60% of the labor and tasks...
PRESS RELEASE BY ASIAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION (ASA) ON WORLD FOODLESS DAY, 15 OCTOBER 2008
Up in Arms with the Rural Youth on World Foodless Day
The Asian Students Association joins hands with our fellow rural youth – peasants, farmers and fisherfolk – as we join the Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific in commemorating the World Foodless Day on October 16.
MEDIA RELEASE BY THE ASIAN PEASANT COALITION (APC), 15 OCTOBER 2008
‘First’ International Day of Rural Women Celebrated
The Asian Peasant Coalition today commemorates the first ever International Day of Rural Women, as established by the UN General Assembly declared in its resolution 62/136 last December 18, 2007. The observance of this day...
PRESS RELEASE, 14 OCTOBER 2008
NGOs and People's Organisations call on the UN Task Force to Resolve the Global Food Security Crisis
Ninety nine national and international NGOs and People's Organisations from 23 countries have called on the United Nations (UN) Task Force and Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary general and Task Force head, to draw comprehensive measures...
STATEMENT BY THE ASIA PACIFIC FORUM ON WOMEN, LAW AND DEVELOPMENT (APWLD) ON "WORLD RURAL WOMEN'S DAY", 15 OCTOBER 2008, AND "WORLD FOODLESS DAY", 16 OCTOBER 2008
Rural and Indigenous Women Assert Food Sovereignty!
15 October 2008, the first International Day of Rural Women“World Rural Women’s Day” was put forward on 15 October, the eve of World Food Day, by international NGOs at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. It...
PRESS RELEASE BY ASIA PACIFIC MISSION FOR MIGRANTS (APMM), 13 OCTOBER 2008
Asian Migrants in HK to support ‘World Foodless Day’
Global crisis to result to more migration and hunger
Global crisis to result to more migration and hunger
In the coming World Food Day, Asian migrant workers in Hong Kong will join the People’s Coalition for Food Sovereignty (PCFS), the Pesticide Action Network in Asia Pacific and civil society groups globally in declaring October 16...