Stephan Backes

UN experts urge binding accountability for agribusiness to safeguard peasants’ rights and global food security GENEVA — A handful of powerful corporations now control vast portions of global agricultural production, input markets and food supply chains, a concentration of power that undermines the autonomy of ...

UN Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas & UN Special Rapporteur on the Right: to Food — have issued a powerful statement:

📢 Corporate dominance of global food systems threatens rural livelihoods, deepens inequality, and undermines the right to food...

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 — 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...

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.

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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.

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#LoudAgainstGenocide #EndImpunity #Gaza

"The #TNCLobby is unwilling to face the reality that voluntarism doesn't work and that this process isn't theirs. It belongs to those affected by the violations of the TNCs whose interests the #TNCLobby is representing at the #BindingTreaty negotiations."

- Letícia Paranhos @foeint.bsky.social

June 4th, Day 2 of the Intersessional Consultations for the #BindingTreaty to #StopCorporateImpunity:

- The #TreatyAlliance, #FeministsFor the Binding Treaty, and the #GlobalCampaign continued their active participation in the intersessional consultations to #StopCorporateImpunity.

YouTube video by Stop Corporate Impunity GLENCORE TOXIC TOUR - Toxic financiers in Geneva

‼️Es el Día Mundial de Acción contra Glencore, el mayor comerciante de materias primas del mundo

Echa un vistazo al Glencore Toxic Tour para conocer a los actores que respaldan las violaciones de los #DDHH y el medio ambiente por parte de las empresas #ToxicGlencore👇
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YouTube video by Stop Corporate Impunity GLENCORE TOXIC TOUR - Toxic financiers in Geneva

Today on the Global day of action against Glencore we're demanding an end to corporate power

Check out the Glencore Toxic Tour in Geneva to learn about the actors propping up corporate violations against human rights and the environment #ToxicGlencore👇

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Court case against Total’s EACOP project in France: A crucial hearing for access to evidence As part of the second lawsuit against Total’s Tilenga and EACOP projects filed in June 2023 under the French Duty of Vigilance Law, an initial hearing will finally take place on Thursday, May 15, 2025...

🔴As part of the second lawsuit against Total’s Tilenga and EACOP projects filed in June 2023, an initial hearing is taking place today.

It could prove decisive in gaining access to evidence that Total has so far refused to disclose.

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UNIFIED CALL TO CONFRONT FAMINE IN GAZA: LAUNCH THE DIPLOMATIC HUMANITARIAN CONVOY NOW  - Law for Palestine UNIFIED CALL TO CONFRONT FAMINE IN GAZA: LAUNCH THE DIPLOMATIC HUMANITARIAN CONVOY NOW  12th May 2025 Palestinian civil society, joined by humanitarian and human rights organisations worldwide, issues...

FIAN is supporting this urgent call to confront famine in #Gaza

📢🌍 International community must unite to end #Israel use of starvation as a weapon.

#DiplomaticConvoyNow #FoodSovereignty

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International community must stop weaponization of food and starvation in Gaza The World Food Program has run out of food supplies in the Gaza Strip, as Israel maintains a blockade on all humanitarian aid to the region which is home to over two million people. This situation rep...

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6 droit à l'eau
7 droit des femmes à la terre
8 droit à l'éducation
9 droit à un logement convenable
10 droit à la liberté d'expression et à la sécurité des personnes

‼️10 droits humains ont été violés ‼️
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1 droit à l'alimentation et à la nutrition
2 droit à la terre
3 droit à un environnement propre, sain et durable
4 droit à la santé
5 droit au travail

Au Sénégal, les machines géantes d'un groupe minier français avalent terres et désert Afrique

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Article important!!!

Une enquête de @fian-international.bsky.social
(👉 tinyurl.com/39hhevtr) a conclu à la violation de plusieurs droits humains des communautés affectées dans le cadre des activités minières d'Eramet Grande Côte.

FIAN International annual report looks back on 2024 Fighting the weaponization of food, supporting fisher peoples, highlighting dangers of digitalized and financialized carbon markets and working for a just transition to agroecology.

📢 FIAN International’s annual report is out!

📄Read about weaponization of food, fisher people’s rights, carbon markets, womens' key role in food production & care, agroecology & more.

Read here: shorturl.at/2ed2P

#FoodSovereignty #Agroecology

Pour @lemonde.fr, ce sont des « otages » côté 🇮🇱 et que des « prisonniers » côté 🇵🇸. Pouvez-vous également mentionner prénoms, noms de famille et âge des 183 otages palestiniens libérés? Elles et ils en ont!
#déshumanisation

At an event organised by @diem25.bsky.social, TNI's Bríd Brennan sums up two important outcomes of the formation meeting of The Hague Group - a group of nine governments that will coordinate legal, economic, and diplomatic measures in response to Israel’s ongoing violations of international law.

YouTube video by Progressive International LIVE FROM THE HAGUE: States Coordinate Measures Against Israel’s Violations of International Law

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Starting now.

New FIAN briefing paper examines intl community failure to respond to starvation, hunger & famine.

Explores ways to strengthen timely & effective assistance to communities impacted by long term human rights abuses – including deliberate starvation & famine. shorturl.at/toWvz

Sowers of Life and Resistance: Building collective feminist leadership for food sovereignty The Sowers of Life and Resistance booklet published today captures the transformative journey of women and young women defenders of food sovereignty in Latin America and the Caribbean. As participants...

"Sowers of Life and Resistance: Building collective feminist leadership for food sovereignty"

This booklet captures the transformative journey of women and young women defenders of food sovereignty in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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As Gaza suffers, hunger watchdog avoids using the F word: famine Many say Gaza is in famine. But the war makes it hard for the world hunger monitor to conclude if Gaza meets the criteria. Is it time to change the definition?

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EU Officials Will Claim Ignorance of Israel’s War Crimes. This Leaked Document Shows What They Knew. The internal EU document may strip European foreign ministers of “plausible deniability” in Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

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YouTube video by Frank Barat POWERING INJUSTICE : How energy supply chains fuels Israel's GENOCIDE.

🎙️ Don’t miss this great interview with SOMO researcher @lydiadeleeuw.bsky.social, where she breaks down our new report, Powering Injustice. Learn about the implications for states & corporations supplying energy to Israel.

Hosted by @frankbarat.bsky.social.

Watch it here⤵️
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⚡️EVENT Building Global Solidarity Chains: From Popular Resistance to Normative Regulation

Yesterday we held an event alongside local movements in Geneva to hear from the affected communities leading the struggle to stop corporate impunity and dismantle corporate power.