In the early hours of Wednesday, about 200 police officers took a violent action and raided the camp Antônio Irmão in Itaquiraí, Mato Grosso do Sul (MS).
The police had no warrant, but invaded the camp and entered the homes of the encampment, searched families and seized material for working in the fields.
The camp has 670...
Four hundred landless families occupied, early on Monday (March 21), the Fazenda Palermo, in the city of São Borja, Rio Grande do Sul. The landless require that the state government finalize the expropriation of the area to settle 54 camped families. They also demand that the federal and state governments immediately settle all of the thousand...
by Jovana Cestille
A health program based on the popular herbal medicine in settlements of Agrarian Reform, held in the municipalities of Querência do Norte and Santa Cruz de Monte Castelo...
The women of Via Campesina held a National Day of Women’s Struggle in light of March 8 - International Women’s Day – to denounce the...
Magali Moser's Blog 
Santa Catarina
At the entrance of the settlement, the...
By Maria Aparecida
In continuation of the National Day of Struggle of Women, in São Paulo, about 600 women that paralyzed the highway Cônego Domênico Rangoni, have occupied on the...
By Bianca Costa
On the morning of March 8, 2006, 1,800 women from Via Campesina carried out a major action against...
By Maria Aparecida 
Earlier on Thursday (March 3), about 600 women from Via Campesina and other social movements have closed part of Highway Cônego...
Over 1,000 women from the social movements of Ceará, the MST, the Movement of People's Councils and the Center of Popular Movements, made two marches to denounce the negative impacts to human health and the environment with excessive use of pesticides in Brazil and impact.
In Fortaleza, more than 600 women marched towards the Palace of...
Fabiana Frayssinet
RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 3 (IPS) - Thousands of women farmers in Brazil demonstrated this week against the use of toxic weedkillers and 
pesticides on crops and in favour of...
