Category: WTO

Corporate entities, IFIs and neoliberal policies are directly responsible for the hunger, malnourishment and economic destitution

Press Release | PKMT 14th Annual Conference 2021 | October 15-16, 2021 Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek held its 14th Annual Conference from October 15 -16 at Renewal Centre, Lahore and simultaneously, held panel discussions and demonstrations to mark International Rural Women’s Day and World Hunger Day. During the events, speakers held corporate entities, IFIs and neoliberal policies accountable for creating food systems that …

Farmers Reject United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)

Press Release | 22 September 2021 Roots for Equity and Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek held the National Food Systems Summit at Renewal Center, Lahore on September 22, 2021. The National Summit was held as national mobilization towards the Global People’s Summit (GPS) for Just, Equitable, Healthy and Sustainable Food Systems. The GPS has been organized through the coordinated efforts of …

“Building a Healthy Planet: Promoting Safe and Nutritious Food for All.”

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July 1, 2021 On July 1, 2021, Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity held a webinar to launch their joint campaign titled “Building a Healthy Planet: Promoting Safe and Nutritious Food for All.” Mr. Tariq Mehmood provided an overview of the campaign with its objective of sensitizing small producers, consumers and society in general regarding the human …

Lessons from Corona: Smash Capitalism!

The Covid-19 pandemic has not only exposed the ineffectiveness of the capitalist system to deal with a crisis but also its criminal tendency to disregard hunger and impoverishment suffered by the masses at this critical juncture, prioritizing profits over people. Further, the imperialist anti-labor policies have also been well exposed. Neoliberal policies have bereft nation-states of financial, material and human …

Women’s Resistances for Rights

March 8th International Women’s Day Press ReleasePakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity in collaboration with International Alliance for Women (IWA), Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development (APWLD) and Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PANAP) organized a women’s assembly in village Raees Baksh Lashari, district Tando Muhammad Khan, Sindh to celebrate the International Women’s …

خصوصی تحریر: گندم کا بحران

پاکستان بھر میں عوام گندم اور آٹے کی قیمت میں تیزی سے ہوتے اضافے سے پریشان ہیں اور اس کی مناسب یا سرکاری قیمت کو یقینی بنانے والے تمام تر ادارے چاہے و وفاقی ہوں یا صوبائی مہنگائی کے اس بے قابو ہوتے جن کو بوتل میں بند کرنے سے قاصر ہیں۔ ایک سال پہلے تک گندم کے وافر ذخائر …

ہم جینیاتی بیج کی مخالفت کیوں کرتے ہیں؟

بیج اپنی پیدائش سے ایک آزادقدرتی وسیلہ ہے جس کے کئی افعال ہیں، بیج جینیاتی وسائل کا ایک ذخیرہ ہے اور ہماری خوراک کا ایک ایسا بنیادی جز ہے جو اپنے اندر زندگی سمو کر کرہ ارض پر ناصرف انسان بلکہ ہر جاندار کی زندگی کو رواں رکھتا ہے۔ اس لیے بیج کو تجارتی جنس بنانا ایسا ہی ہے جیسے …