Mobilizing Communities for an Equitable World
Asian Peasant Coalition’s Statement on the Day of the Landless 2024 2024 marks the 9th year since the Asian Peasant Coalition determined the 29th of March as global “Day of the Landless” to be annually commemorated in 2015. And despite the promise of improvement and development from the global north, the condition of landlessness persists and negligible changes have transpired …
Press Release | October 18, 2023 Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity held the first Pakistan Peoples’ Caravan (PPC) on October 18, 2023, in Shikarpur, Sindh, as part of the Global Peoples’ Caravan for Food, Land, and Climate Justice. There are other caravans already organized for other parts of Pakistan in the coming weeks. The caravans will …
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 …
Press Release | International Day of Rural Women | October 15, 2023 We mark the Rural Women’s Day with grave concern! Though we are now in the 21st Century, and there is high technological development, the world is facing rising hunger, with rural women being at the highest rung of being the most marginalized, suffering from hunger, hunger wages, and …
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Mazdoor Kisan Tehreek has rejected increase in power tariff and the prices of petroleum products, saying inflation will further deepen the current economic crisis being faced by the poor farmers and industrial workers. Addressing a news conference at Peshawar Press Club on Monday, Pakistan Mazdoor Kissan Tehreek provincial coordinator Fayyaz Khan said that inflation had badly affected landless …
KARACHI: Expressing concern over the sky-rocketing inflation and hike in the prices of basic commodities, representatives of Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity have demanded that the government take emergency steps to provide relief to common man and impose agriculture tax on landlords owning more than 50 acres besides bringing real estate sector into tax net. Speaking …
Imperialist Economic Exploitation, Poverty, Inflation, Unemployment, Insecurity State’s Ignorance Rejected! Press Release | September 4, 2023 The Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT) and Roots for Equity forcefully and emphatically voices its protest against the intense economic debacle gripping our nation. On September 4, 2023, PKMT has declared a nationwide Protest Day against the ongoing crippling inflation. Protests are being staged …
Haal Ahwal covers various areas in context to agriculture production. The various news items in the first month of the year do not bear good tidings! The devastating monsoon and riverine floods that hit Pakistan last year, especially Sindh, continue to devastate agricultural production; a prime example is cotton production which in 2022 saw a massive shortfall of 37.23 percent. …
Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek has launched “Save Our Invaluable Rural Assets: Campaign against Corporate Control of Dairy and Livestock Sector in Pakistan.” As part of the campaign, PKMT is relaying 3 radio messages from Mast FM 103 Multan. PKMT is campaigning for control over its invaluable biodiversity against corporate control. Currently, small and landless farmers are the main producers and …
In Pakistan, of the total 116 districts, 81 districts have been heavily impacted by the climate crises induced floods. Sindh has experienced many months of intense monsoon rainfall which was followed by river flooding leaving a very destructive impact on rural life; if the seven districts of Karachi are included than entire Sindh has suffered severely. Of the total 8.3 …