Tag: agrarian reform
Nobody seems to remember when farmers died outside Manila’s presidential palace
“Now more than ever, we need to ensure that their rights are protected"
After 34 years of Philippines’ agrarian reform law, farmers continue to...
“It’s not only about land distribution, but the condition that the farmers are in now. Are they tilling their own lands?”
Rights groups call for release of arrested activists, farmers in Philippine...
“We condemn these dirty tactics that seem bent on sabotaging the distribution of the 200-hectare sugarcane estate to rightful beneficiaries"
35 years after massacre of Filipino farmers, struggle for agrarian reform...
Every time poor farmers attempt to pursue their claims for land reform, they are attacked by state security forces and goons