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Letter campaigns (called Urgent Actions) are one of FIAN's instruments to address violations of the human right to food. Members and supporters from all around the world, either by letter, fax or e-mail, request the responsible state authorities to meet their obligations to respect, protect and fulfil human rights.
Experience has shown that Urgent Actions can improve the situation of those people concerned of or threatened by a human rights violation. FIAN will only act if it is requested to do so by the victims and their support groups.
Thanks for your participation in the following Urgent Actions.
BAN LAND GRABBING!
Beginning of Action:
23-08-2010
- End of Action
16-10-2010
The new land grabbing is the latest element in a transnational business strategy of trying to get the hands on people's lands and water resources. Land grabbing violates international human rights law - not so much because in the course of people's...
Guatemala: Community leader shot - Marlin mine activities must be suspended
Beginning of Action:
15-07-2010
- End of Action
31-08-2010
Guatemala, July 15, 2010. On July 7th, two unknown men shot Ms. Diodora Antonia Hernández Cinto in her home. She is a community leader of the movement against the Marlin Mine. On May 20th, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) ordered...
India: right to food of children still not implemented in Uttar Pradesh
Beginning of Action:
13-07-2010
- End of Action
12-09-2010
Despite recommendations from local authorities Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is still not implemented in village Jalapur of Uttar Pradesh thereby threatening the right to food of children and women in the village. ICDS programmes address...
Stop Land Grabbing Immediately!
Beginning of Action:
07-04-2010
- End of Action
19-05-2010
Do not support the principles of "responsible" agribusiness investment promoted by the World Bank
Land grabbing denies land for local communities, destroys livelihoods, reduces the political space for peasant oriented agricultural policies...
Mali: the right to food of 30 peasant families jeopardized in N'Tabacoro
Beginning of Action:
22-02-2010
- End of Action
15-04-2010
Dozens of families on the outskirts of Bamako, the capital of Mali, are under threat of being evicted from their lands by the Government in favour of a housing project. The cultivation ban, ordered in July 2009, jeopardizes their right to adequate...
India: Opencast coal mining destroys the livelihood of indigenous people in Jharkhand
Beginning of Action:
09-11-2009
- End of Action
24-02-2010
The rapid development of open cast coal mining in the North Karanpura Valley in Hazaribagh and Chatra Districts of Jharkhand is destroying the resources of food and water of the original inhabitants of these areas, mainly Adivasis (indigenous people),...
Colombia: displacement of rural families, Bolívar region
Beginning of Action:
23-10-2009
- End of Action
08-01-2010
On July 14, 2009, 120 families were forcibly displaced. They are from the estate of Las Pavas, located in the administrative district of Buenos Aires in the municipality of El Peñón in the southern Bolívar province. Members of the...
Brazil: Urgent demarcation to fulfill right to food of 30 Guarani-Kaiowá families
Beginning of Action:
15-10-2009
- End of Action
15-01-2010
The Guarani-Kaiowá is an indigenous population living in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. In the past, they were pushed off their traditional lands to make way for large agricultural plantations and cattle raising, notwithstanding national...
India: Non-implementation of ICDS in Jalalpur village of Uttar Pradesh.
Beginning of Action:
27-07-2009
- End of Action
19-10-2009
Non implementation of Integrated Child Development Services threatens the right to food of children and women in Jalalpur village of Uttar Pradesh. ICDS programmes address the health and nutrition needs of children under the age of six and also extend...
Ghana: pollution threatens the right to water of community in Adisakrom
Beginning of Action:
17-07-2009
- End of Action
15-09-2009
Access to sufficient and safe water is increasingly difficult for Adisakrom and other communities in the areas of Iduapriem, Western Ghana, where AnglaGold Ashanti holds a mining concession. The communities' right to water is violated...
