Sentences with phrase «of landless»

When the World Bank talks of civil society it is referring to a completely different reality than the one expressed by the Thai Poor People's Forum or the Brazilian Movement of Landless Peasants using the same term.
Nonetheless the desperateness of landless among the tribals leads many to bribe the Government officers to speed up the R & R process.
Some estimates put the number of landless Brazilians in the countryside at 15 million — nearly 10 per cent of the total population.
These organisations are: The movement of landless farmer (MST) from Brazil, a co-ordination of Trade Unions from South Korea, a farmers movement from Burkina Faso (FENOP), a Women's, movement of Quebec and the Movement of the unemployed in France.
They were the MST (Movimento dos sem terra / Movement of the Landless) from Brazil, PICIS (Policy and Information Center for International Solidarity) from South Korea, FENOP (Fédération Nationale des Organisations Paysannes / National Federation of Farmers Organisations) from Burkina Faso, the Women Movement from Quebec, the Mouvement des Chômeurs (Movement of the Unemployed) from France)
It also sought the establishment of the commercial domination of the Italian republics and the carving out of principalities for the feudal lords of western Europe (as it has been expressively put, it attempted the solution of the problem of the landless younger sons); and the Crusades also provided scope for all who desired to strike a blow for the faith or do penance by enduring the hardships of a holy war.
The landlord who is a pious Christian becomes the enemy if you are on the side of the landless labourer.
MST (Movement of the Landless, from Brazil) FENOP (National Federation of the peasant - farmers organisations, from Burkina Faso) PICIS (Policy and Information Center for International Solidarity, South Korean Trade Union)
Even Mexico, whose major land reforms were instituted more than 30 years ago, has witnessed the re-emergence of land concentration and a recent increase in the number of landless peasants.
Mario Luis Lill of Brazil's «Movement of the Landless»: «The MST is a movement for those without land, the small peasant - farmers of Brazil who are struggling principally for ownership of land.
No government has really succeeded in bringing about real agrarian reform and, for the moment, since the neo-liberal period, the situation of the landless peasant - farmers has become increasingly serious because the large properties are beginning to find a certain legitimacy once more.

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Shouldn't Jordan be practicing it's «Religion of Peace» and «brotherly love» and take these poor landless people back?
For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.
That is the focus of the Old Testament's Jubilee proclamation, a policy designed to reduce the excesses of greed and to avoid splitting society into landed and landless factions.
They were, and still are, coerced to survive mostly as landless agricultural laborers, wholly dependent on the good - will of the caste Hindu landlords.
Yes, and tallulah, you will continue to believe in the fraud of «global warming,» until you are a landless peasant with no private property of your own.
Freedom defined as the free movement of capital and free trade has rewarded elites while leaving the poor free to be hungry, landless, sick and persecuted.
The landless, the labourers and other lower strata of society do not share political power.
Today, in our country, the marginalized sections of society, (women, dalits, tribals, landless, laborers, etc.) are organizing themselves.
Some outstanding efforts are being made today, for example, the involvement of priests and nuns in the fishermen's struggle in Kerala and the participation of Christian action groups in organizing landless laborers in Tamil Nadu.
The list becomes longer every day: the landless farmers in Brazil, salaried workers and the unemployed in some European countries, trade unions uniting the vast majority of salaried workers (such as in Korea or South Africa), the young and students encouraging the people of the towns (like in Indonesia), all are involved in the struggle.
A majority of the poor are also landless.
During the past decades several groups of young men and women have gone into organizing the landless, marginalised groups.
«The GM Golden Rice program is ill - suited as Philippine society is primarily agrarian where the majority of the farmers are landless, thus, they need is a genuine land reform program or free distribution of land, that will fundamentally secure their food and nutrition needs,» said Vizconde.
They are representatives of peasant and family farmers, landless, rural women and rural youth, fishers and fish workers, agricultural workers, hunters and gatherers, pastoralists and herders, indigenous peoples and food consumers.
As one of the coordinators of Brazil's Landless Workers Movement told the LA Times: «When the government told us we would host the World Cup, we hoped there would be improvements for us.
A second round of paperwork filed by FIFA and the US national soccer organizations adds a new twist to the «Concussions are not our problem» argument by arguing they don't own the soccer fields to the claim of «no direct contact with players» thus powerless and landless, they have no influence over youth concussion policy.
2001 - Wilmot works with the Greenville Rancheria, a 90 - member, landless tribe in California with the advantage of federal recognition.
In an occasion, CPI Marxist wanted to evict some poor peasants out of their lands by pursuing a pro-Chinese (CPI Marxist is perhaps the only pro-China communist party of India) policy, trying to industrialise West Bengal fast on the cost of leaving poor farmers homeless and landless, and joining a capitalist pro-globalisation economic program.
landless Peaant who's «we» who you want to stop these evil people, do you mean the labour party, you haven't voted labour in 32 years, and you assume that the labour party wants your vote, by the way you come out with criticisms of the DWP based on the assumption that it makes you right to oppose something
Landless peasant, Wilson won in 1974 with 11.4 m votes in 64 ′ it was 12.2 m, the tories had 13m votes n 1983 ′ and the 74 manifesto supported selling council homes, wilson campaigned on A EU referndum to stay in, on the understanding if we voted to stay in the EEC, the party must accept it, the 1959 manifesto, said sell of council homes, and in 1965 michael fot had the party whip withdrawn from him, for the last 4 years.
BenM had labour stood on the sort of manifesto, you'd have like din 1997 we wouldn't have own anyway Landless peasant, you didn't vote laur in 87 or 92 the pulbic rightly felt labour was a more far left party in 87 ′ than 83 ′ and Kinock our leader in 1992 fully backed the 83 manifesto, so saying you wouldn't vote labour now, I doubt you'd ever vote labour, now even of Michael foot was alive and our leader,
In the worst incident, 19 landless people were killed when police dispersed a protest near Marabá in the northern state of Para, a region notorious for its ruthless style of settling disputes.
The MST, formed 11 years ago, claims that it has settled 139 000 landless families on 7.2 million hectares, largely by encouraging invasions of unoccupied land.
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Her forthcoming book, Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education (Oxford University Press) examines the educational initiatives of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), a national social movement of rural workers struggling for agrarian reform.
Accompanied by a small but able band of soldiers — among them Sir Guillaume (a landless lord seeking to regain his fortune as a mercenary) and Robbie Douglas (a Scottish prisoner spared by Thomas, and who now serves him loyally) Thomas is sent to Gascony to capture the castle of Astarac.
Nearly 5,000 families will become landless due to the lack of any plans for their resettlement or compensation (Banco Santander 1).
Landless received funding from the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department.
In contrast, centuries of extraordinary technical progress give me great confidence that diffusion of our best practices and continuing innovation can advance us much further in decarbonization, landless agriculture, and other cardinal directions for a prosperous, green environment.
«By working with Thomson Reuters we can combine our deep understanding of the difficult challenges financial institutions face with a powerful, scalable delivery platform to offer clients the best of both worlds,» said Paul Landless of Clifford Chance Singapore.
Please find below 10 shortlisted photographs of the activities conducted: In 2008 Smile Train produced a 39» documentary called «Smile Pinki» chronicling the life of Pinki Sonkar born with a cleft lip in a dirt poor landless laborer's family in a small village in Mirzapur District and how it changed after she received reconstructive surgery.
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