CFS 50: Statement from CSIPM on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

Oct 11, 2022 | La Via Campesina
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As a diverse collective, which is made of persons from the South and from the North, we, peasant women, Indigenous women, women from war-torn countries, women living under occupation, non-cis heteronormative persons, fisherfolks, landless people, pastoralists, agricultural and food workers, consumers, and urban food insecure women, repeatedly show, based on our lived experiences, that women and other people who are historically subjected to discrimination due to their sexual orientation and/or gender identity suffer from multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination. Each form of discrimination and injustice hinders us from realising our human right to adequate food and nutrition (right to food), which is interdependent with all other human rights