Tag: Climate Emergency

INTENSIFY PEASANT STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPERIALIST PLUNDER, WAR, AND MILITARISM!

STATEMENT FOR THE 2025 DAY OF THE LANDLESS – 29 March 2025 We, peasants, farmers, farmworkers, Indigenous Peoples, fisherfolk, pastoralists, herders, rural women, rural youth and children, along with our organizations, coalitions, networks, and allies in civil society organizations, reaffirm the anti-imperialist position and the centrality of the peasant struggle for land, food, and justice in achieving sustainable agriculture and …

World Foodless Day 2024

The Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) is marking the “World Hunger Day’ on October 16, 2024 – a day which is marked by the United Nations as the World Food Day. However, the global data by the same esteemed organization gives a poor condition of food security, globally and in Pakistan, which has been ranked 109th out of 127 nations in …

Commercialisation of genetically modified sugar cane crops strongly opposed

KARACHI: Highlighting the hazards of genetically modified (GM) crops, the Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) has urged the National Biosafety Commission (NBC) to reject the proposal for commercialisation of two GM sugar cane crops. In a press release, the PKMT stated that it strongly opposed the recent move of the Technical Advisory Committee, operating under the Environment Protection Agency (EPA), …

The Rural People Demand: Food, Land and Climate Justice!

Press Release | World Hunger Day | October 16, 2023 The Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity in collaboration with Asian Peasant Coalition (APC), Pesticide Action Network (PAN AP) are marking the “World Hunger Day’ on October 16, 2023 – a day which is considered to be World Food Day. A peasant gathering (JALSA) has been organized …

DONATE A “RAZAI” CAMPAIGN

With the fast-approaching winter, Roots for Equity and Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek has initiated a “Donate a Razai Campaign,” in the monsoon/floods affected areas, with each razai costing PKR 3,500. These razais will be stitched by women living in flood affected areas in Khairpur, Ghotki, and Shikarpur. A pool of 55 women have been created who will be provided raw …

From Economic Crisis to Climate Crisis

Press Release | August 30, 2022 Pakistan has been among the top 10 countries most affected by climate crisis for the past several years. This climate crisis is not natural but the result of the fossil-fuel based capitalist production system, a system driven by imperialist imposition of domination. In the past few years, the devastation and suffering of the people …