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FIAN Calls Upon G8 to Implement Tenure Guidelines

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One year after the endorsement of the Guidelines on the Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests, FIAN calls upon the G8 to implement them. The G8 is currently discussing an 'initiative to increase transparency of land transactions and tenure', which could be launched at the upcoming G8 summit in June 2013. FIAN, together with social movements and other civil society organizations from all over the world strongly rejects this initiative, which will not stop land and resource grabbing.

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Report reveals hidden truth about land concentration in Europe

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A report released today by the Hands off the Land Alliance and the European Coordination of Via Campesina shows that land concentration is not only a problem in the Global South. Within Europe, half of all farmland is controlled by just 3 percent of the landowners. On this International Day of Peasants’ Struggles FIAN and a wide coalition of social movements and civil society organizations call for mobilization to reclaim our food system, which is increasingly being taken over by global capital in the form of land grabs.

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Compensation ordered for evictees of coffee plantation Mubende

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The High Court in Uganda ordered that compensation of approximately 11 million euros be paid to the more than 2,000 evictees of land now occupied by the Kaweri Coffee Plantation in Mubende. The judge harshly criticized the German investor behind the plantation, Neumann Kaffee Gruppe, for abusing its human rights duty to due diligence.

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Views from Burkina Faso on mining and peasants’ rights

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FIAN recently invited Talatou Boukari to the Netherlands to speak about gold mining and the violation of economic, social and cultural rights in his home country Burkina Faso. Boukari is the president of the village development council of Essakane and used to be an artisanal gold miner himself.

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FIAN speaks at Dutch parliament

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Recently FIAN has been engaged in various advocacy efforts to encourage the implementation of the 'The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security' in Dutch trade and development policy.

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Promising steps toward recognition of women’s right to food

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In celebration of International Women's Day, FIAN International applauds recent efforts to develop international frameworks in support of the right to adequate food for women. Although the connection between gender justice and reduced world hunger is now widely accepted, currently there is a lack of adequate reference to women's rights within key international human rights treaties.

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  1. Speakers' tour and documentary: Gold mining in Burkina Faso
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  3. Urgent Action Mozambique-Niassa extended
  4. Victory for indigenous Guarani-Kaiowá in Brazil

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