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UN urged to act as invasive alien weeds threaten rural livelihoods and foo
Updated : 8 months ago IST
At the UNHRC session in Geneva, ECO FAWN Society's Sai Sampath Mettu urged urgent global action against invasive alien weeds, warning they threaten crops, ecosystems, and rural livelihoods. He called for funds, monitoring, and a "Decade of Action" to safeguard food security and peasants'
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Paul Greengrass eyes Andrew Garfield to star in historical drama 'The Rage
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Actor Andrew Garfield is in active negotiations to star in Paul Greengrass's historical drama 'The Rage', a film set during the Peasants' Revolt, a major uprising in England in 1381.
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Pakistan: Farmers to launch nationwide protest against corporate farming o
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
Through the protest, the participants will call for an end to corporate farming and the eviction of peasants from the lands they have been cultivating for generations.
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Chinese agricultural products linked to Uyghur forced labour, report sugge
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Chinese exports of agricultural products such as tomatoes, chilli peppers, and marigolds from the Xinjiang region are tainted by forced labour and land transfers from Uyghur peasants to Chinese businesses, as highlighted by a new research report.
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"Congress an ally but...": Sanjay Raut on seat-sharing challenges within I
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
"Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena are in the alliance, Samajwadi Party, Peasants and Workers Party of India (PWP) are also there. Most of the leaders of Maharashtra are not capable of taking decisions. They have to send the list to Delhi again and again. Now that time has passed. We want this
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Human rights activists call for Sindh Tenancy Act reform to protect peasan
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Human rights activists, academics and journalists at the launch of 9th report titled "The State of Peasants' Rights in Sindh for 2023" have called for amending and implementing the Sindh Tenancy Act to protect peasants' rights in the province, Dawn reported on Wednesday.
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Pakistan: Landlords burn peasants house after latter demanded share in cro
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Tenants in Pakistan work the land for no pay because of debts owed to landlords, often incurred generations before. It's a classic system of share-cropping, where landless tenants hand over between two-thirds and half of their crop to landowners just to pay the interest.
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Harassment, patriarchy and inflation come under fire in Pakistan's "Aurat
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Raising voice over the many injustices in society, raising awareness on multiple issues, and standing up for each other, "Hum Aurtein" managed to gather, in no particular order, women, men, transgender persons, workers, peasants, members of minority communities, students and children at the
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RSS affiliate to stage protest on Sept 8 demanding guarantee of profitable
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 6 (ANI): Amid the impasse between the government and agitating farmers, Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, an affiliate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), is likely to add to the concerns of the Centre with its protests on September 8 over its demand for the guarantee
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Maharashtra Governor condoles demise of PWP leader Ganpatrao Deshmukh
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 31 (ANI): Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari expressed condolences over the demise of veteran Peasants and Workers Party (PWP) leader Ganpatrao Deshmukh.
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Bonded labour traps thousands in Pakistan, despite law against slavery
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], July 2 (ANI): Thousands of peasants in Pakistan remain entrenched in servitude under bonded labour as even after five years after the Sindh Assembly passed the Bonded labour abolition Act, the law is yet to be implemented.
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SC rejects bail plea of activist Akhil Gogoi in anti-CAA protests case
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 11 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected to grant bail to peasants' activist Akhil Gogoi who was arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests in Assam.
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