Ana María Suarez Franco
@anamsuarezfranco.bsky.social
Human Rights Advocate
Caring for people and nature
FIAN’s Secretary General
Caring for people and nature
FIAN’s Secretary General
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📢 Across Africa, Asia & Latin America, extractive projects dispossess communities, damage ecosystems & livelihoods.
🌐 UN #BindingTreaty must introduce clear, enforceable global standards that prioritize #HumanRights & #Evironment over corporate profit.
📄 shorturl.at/9zYa0
#StopCorporateImpunity
🌐 UN #BindingTreaty must introduce clear, enforceable global standards that prioritize #HumanRights & #Evironment over corporate profit.
📄 shorturl.at/9zYa0
#StopCorporateImpunity
October 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
📢 Across Africa, Asia & Latin America, extractive projects dispossess communities, damage ecosystems & livelihoods.
🌐 UN #BindingTreaty must introduce clear, enforceable global standards that prioritize #HumanRights & #Evironment over corporate profit.
📄 shorturl.at/9zYa0
#StopCorporateImpunity
🌐 UN #BindingTreaty must introduce clear, enforceable global standards that prioritize #HumanRights & #Evironment over corporate profit.
📄 shorturl.at/9zYa0
#StopCorporateImpunity
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📢 View oral statement by Ngäbe Buglé fisher leader Alfonso Simon Raylan to #HumanRightsCouncil here.
September 19, 2025 at 7:58 AM
📢 View oral statement by Ngäbe Buglé fisher leader Alfonso Simon Raylan to #HumanRightsCouncil here.
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Following their intervention at the UN #HumanRightsCouncil #Panama indigenous fishers met UN Special Rapporteur Albert K Barume and advocate for an end to government repression at an UNDROP discussion hosted by FIAN International.
Read more here: shorturl.at/DEzi1
Read more here: shorturl.at/DEzi1
September 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Following their intervention at the UN #HumanRightsCouncil #Panama indigenous fishers met UN Special Rapporteur Albert K Barume and advocate for an end to government repression at an UNDROP discussion hosted by FIAN International.
Read more here: shorturl.at/DEzi1
Read more here: shorturl.at/DEzi1
Tres important!
Une victoire dans l’affaire Total Ouganda 😍🥳
Le tribunal vient de rendre une décision cruciale enjoignant à Total de communiquer des documents considérés comme des éléments de preuve essentiels à la procédure par les demandeurs.
Notre réaction : www.amisdelaterre.org/communique-p...
Le tribunal vient de rendre une décision cruciale enjoignant à Total de communiquer des documents considérés comme des éléments de preuve essentiels à la procédure par les demandeurs.
Notre réaction : www.amisdelaterre.org/communique-p...
September 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Tres important!
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Must-read: UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food @michaelfakhri.bsky.social calls out key companies driving corporate concentration in the food system and demands accountability for rights violations. digitallibrary.un.org/record/40872... @fian-international.bsky.social @etcgroup.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Must-read: UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food @michaelfakhri.bsky.social calls out key companies driving corporate concentration in the food system and demands accountability for rights violations. digitallibrary.un.org/record/40872... @fian-international.bsky.social @etcgroup.bsky.social
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The push for supermarkets across the world is causing a rise in highly processed foods. In the latest 'Supermarket bulletin', we highlight how local food distribution could be entry point to address nutrition issues grain.org/en/article/7...
@fian-international.bsky.social @margteixeira.bsky.social
@fian-international.bsky.social @margteixeira.bsky.social
The health and nutritional costs of supermarkets
As supermarkets expand, traditional food systems shrink, endangering heritage diets and the benefits they offer to human health. In this edition, we highlight how local food systems should be the entr...
grain.org
September 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The push for supermarkets across the world is causing a rise in highly processed foods. In the latest 'Supermarket bulletin', we highlight how local food distribution could be entry point to address nutrition issues grain.org/en/article/7...
@fian-international.bsky.social @margteixeira.bsky.social
@fian-international.bsky.social @margteixeira.bsky.social
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Urgent call from our allies La Via Campesina to strengthen solidarity with #Palestine and pressure for #sanctions against #Israel.
#Gaza #Genocide shorturl.at/gu0z6 @viacampesinabe.bsky.social @eurovia.org
#Gaza #Genocide shorturl.at/gu0z6 @viacampesinabe.bsky.social @eurovia.org
Urgent Call to strengthen solidarity with Palestine and pressure for sanctions against Israel | Via Campesina
Palestine Solidarity La Via Campesina calls on its member organisations and allies to strengthen their actions in solidarity with the Palestinian people. In Palestine, the Israeli occupation regime is...
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September 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Urgent call from our allies La Via Campesina to strengthen solidarity with #Palestine and pressure for #sanctions against #Israel.
#Gaza #Genocide shorturl.at/gu0z6 @viacampesinabe.bsky.social @eurovia.org
#Gaza #Genocide shorturl.at/gu0z6 @viacampesinabe.bsky.social @eurovia.org
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FIAN supports this call for global actions to support Palestine alongside the Palestinian NGO Network and the Friends of The Hague Group: shorturl.at/eo2r7
Palestinian And Global Civil Society Call For Global Actions September 18 - PopularResistance.Org
On September 2, 2025, the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), which represents 150 Palestinian-led member organizations in Gaza and the West Bank, issued a Call for a Global Day of Action and Strike Septe...
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September 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
FIAN supports this call for global actions to support Palestine alongside the Palestinian NGO Network and the Friends of The Hague Group: shorturl.at/eo2r7
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The power of a plate of food: how #Brazil National School Feeding Program supports local markets. Read more in the latest edition of Supermarket Watch @grain.org #FIANBrazil #StreetNetInternational shorturl.at/Euclb
September 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The power of a plate of food: how #Brazil National School Feeding Program supports local markets. Read more in the latest edition of Supermarket Watch @grain.org #FIANBrazil #StreetNetInternational shorturl.at/Euclb
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📖 Full analysis in GNRTFN's #WATCH2025
#FoodSecurity #SocialSpending
www.righttofoodandnutrition.org/en/publicati...
#FoodSecurity #SocialSpending
www.righttofoodandnutrition.org/en/publicati...
June 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
📖 Full analysis in GNRTFN's #WATCH2025
#FoodSecurity #SocialSpending
www.righttofoodandnutrition.org/en/publicati...
#FoodSecurity #SocialSpending
www.righttofoodandnutrition.org/en/publicati...
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At the Policies against Hunger conference in Berlin this week FIAN Secretary General Ana Suarez-Franco called on the German government to stop violating international humanitarian law by sending weapons to Israel and standing by as people in Gaza are intentionally starved.
June 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
At the Policies against Hunger conference in Berlin this week FIAN Secretary General Ana Suarez-Franco called on the German government to stop violating international humanitarian law by sending weapons to Israel and standing by as people in Gaza are intentionally starved.
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🌍 REDISTRIBUTING LAND, RESTORING RIGHTS 🌍 Tackling #LandInequality to Overcome #GlobalCrises
FIAN Side event at the 59th session of the #HumanRights Council
📅 June 30 | 4-5 PM📍UN Geneva-Room XXV
🔗 CONNECTING GLOBAL STRUGGLES: #ICARRD20 #COP30 #TaxJustice
⏰Don't miss this crucial conversation!
FIAN Side event at the 59th session of the #HumanRights Council
📅 June 30 | 4-5 PM📍UN Geneva-Room XXV
🔗 CONNECTING GLOBAL STRUGGLES: #ICARRD20 #COP30 #TaxJustice
⏰Don't miss this crucial conversation!
June 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🌍 REDISTRIBUTING LAND, RESTORING RIGHTS 🌍 Tackling #LandInequality to Overcome #GlobalCrises
FIAN Side event at the 59th session of the #HumanRights Council
📅 June 30 | 4-5 PM📍UN Geneva-Room XXV
🔗 CONNECTING GLOBAL STRUGGLES: #ICARRD20 #COP30 #TaxJustice
⏰Don't miss this crucial conversation!
FIAN Side event at the 59th session of the #HumanRights Council
📅 June 30 | 4-5 PM📍UN Geneva-Room XXV
🔗 CONNECTING GLOBAL STRUGGLES: #ICARRD20 #COP30 #TaxJustice
⏰Don't miss this crucial conversation!
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💸 #TAXJUSTICE = #FOODJUSTICE
Time for progressive, just, inclusive tax systems! ⚖️
💡 The truth: ¡Resources to ensure the right to food exist—they just need to be mobilized through smart tax measures!
Time for progressive, just, inclusive tax systems! ⚖️
💡 The truth: ¡Resources to ensure the right to food exist—they just need to be mobilized through smart tax measures!
June 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
💸 #TAXJUSTICE = #FOODJUSTICE
Time for progressive, just, inclusive tax systems! ⚖️
💡 The truth: ¡Resources to ensure the right to food exist—they just need to be mobilized through smart tax measures!
Time for progressive, just, inclusive tax systems! ⚖️
💡 The truth: ¡Resources to ensure the right to food exist—they just need to be mobilized through smart tax measures!
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Time to stop Israel's blockade of #Gaza and deliberate starvation of Palestinians
Read more here: www.fian.org/en/press-rel...
@michaelfakhri.bsky.social @viacampesinabe.bsky.social
Read more here: www.fian.org/en/press-rel...
@michaelfakhri.bsky.social @viacampesinabe.bsky.social
Time to Stop Israel Blockade of Gaza and End Impunity
The deliberate starvation of Palestinians by Israel has turned Gaza into the hungriest place on Earth. FIAN calls on all states and international institutions to take all necessary steps to ensure tha...
www.fian.org
June 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Time to stop Israel's blockade of #Gaza and deliberate starvation of Palestinians
Read more here: www.fian.org/en/press-rel...
@michaelfakhri.bsky.social @viacampesinabe.bsky.social
Read more here: www.fian.org/en/press-rel...
@michaelfakhri.bsky.social @viacampesinabe.bsky.social
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As Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people rages on, the internationalist struggle for Palestinian liberation remains strong even in the face of suppression 🇵🇸
We stand in solidarity with @urgencepalestine.bsky.social against attempts by the French government to silence them
#FreePalestine
We stand in solidarity with @urgencepalestine.bsky.social against attempts by the French government to silence them
#FreePalestine
June 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
As Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people rages on, the internationalist struggle for Palestinian liberation remains strong even in the face of suppression 🇵🇸
We stand in solidarity with @urgencepalestine.bsky.social against attempts by the French government to silence them
#FreePalestine
We stand in solidarity with @urgencepalestine.bsky.social against attempts by the French government to silence them
#FreePalestine
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⁃ In mid September the chair will circulate his suggestions on articles Art 4-11, potentially to be negotiated during the session of 20-24 October 2025. Some suggestions will try to harmonize and in others they will show the divergences.
We will keep you updated!
We will keep you updated!
June 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
⁃ In mid September the chair will circulate his suggestions on articles Art 4-11, potentially to be negotiated during the session of 20-24 October 2025. Some suggestions will try to harmonize and in others they will show the divergences.
We will keep you updated!
We will keep you updated!
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• At the end of the session the chair announced next steps, notably:
⁃ The intersessionals planned for the end of August will be canceled due to UN financial constrains.
⁃ States unable to participate this week can send their contributions until the end of the month.
⁃ The intersessionals planned for the end of August will be canceled due to UN financial constrains.
⁃ States unable to participate this week can send their contributions until the end of the month.
June 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
• At the end of the session the chair announced next steps, notably:
⁃ The intersessionals planned for the end of August will be canceled due to UN financial constrains.
⁃ States unable to participate this week can send their contributions until the end of the month.
⁃ The intersessionals planned for the end of August will be canceled due to UN financial constrains.
⁃ States unable to participate this week can send their contributions until the end of the month.
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June 5th, Day 3 of the Intersessional Consultations for BindingTreaty to #StopCorporateImpunity:
- The #TreatyAlliance, #FeministsFor the Binding Treaty, and the #GlobalCampaign continued their active participation in the intersessional consultations to #StopCorporateImpunity.
- The #TreatyAlliance, #FeministsFor the Binding Treaty, and the #GlobalCampaign continued their active participation in the intersessional consultations to #StopCorporateImpunity.
June 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
June 5th, Day 3 of the Intersessional Consultations for BindingTreaty to #StopCorporateImpunity:
- The #TreatyAlliance, #FeministsFor the Binding Treaty, and the #GlobalCampaign continued their active participation in the intersessional consultations to #StopCorporateImpunity.
- The #TreatyAlliance, #FeministsFor the Binding Treaty, and the #GlobalCampaign continued their active participation in the intersessional consultations to #StopCorporateImpunity.
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🌐New FIAN & @focussouth.bsky.social report puts spotlight on top 10 global landowners controlling area as big as Japan.
📢Threatening food security/ livelihoods of 2.5 billion smallholder farmers & 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest.
📃 shorturl.at/SVJKX
#LandGrabbing #FoodSovereignty #ICARRD+20
📢Threatening food security/ livelihoods of 2.5 billion smallholder farmers & 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest.
📃 shorturl.at/SVJKX
#LandGrabbing #FoodSovereignty #ICARRD+20
June 3, 2025 at 6:50 AM
🌐New FIAN & @focussouth.bsky.social report puts spotlight on top 10 global landowners controlling area as big as Japan.
📢Threatening food security/ livelihoods of 2.5 billion smallholder farmers & 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest.
📃 shorturl.at/SVJKX
#LandGrabbing #FoodSovereignty #ICARRD+20
📢Threatening food security/ livelihoods of 2.5 billion smallholder farmers & 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest.
📃 shorturl.at/SVJKX
#LandGrabbing #FoodSovereignty #ICARRD+20
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US Pension Fund TIAA Linked to Brutal Land Grabs and Evictions of Farmers in Brazil www.commondreams.org/opinion/tiaa... #LandGrabbing #FoodSovereignty @focussouth.bsky.social @fiandeutschland.bsky.social @fianbelgium.bsky.social @fiancolombia.bsky.social
US Pension Fund TIAA Linked to Brutal Land Grabs and Evictions of Farmers in Brazil | Common Dreams
The 10 largest transnational landowners in the world control an area larger than Japan, according to a new report. This accumulation fuels human rights abuse, inequalities, and environmental destructi...
www.commondreams.org
June 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
US Pension Fund TIAA Linked to Brutal Land Grabs and Evictions of Farmers in Brazil www.commondreams.org/opinion/tiaa... #LandGrabbing #FoodSovereignty @focussouth.bsky.social @fiandeutschland.bsky.social @fianbelgium.bsky.social @fiancolombia.bsky.social
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🌍 Small group of global corporate landowners accumulate vast tracts of #land, fuel growing inequality, climate crisis.
📰 See The Ecologist: shorturl.at/jxY7H
📢 Join online discussion tomorrow, 15-17h CEST.
Register: shorturl.at/HBg7x
#LandGrabbing @theecologist.org @focussouth.bsky.social
📰 See The Ecologist: shorturl.at/jxY7H
📢 Join online discussion tomorrow, 15-17h CEST.
Register: shorturl.at/HBg7x
#LandGrabbing @theecologist.org @focussouth.bsky.social
Unlevelling the land
The ten largest transnational landowners in the world control an area larger than Japan, according to a new report.
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June 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
🌍 Small group of global corporate landowners accumulate vast tracts of #land, fuel growing inequality, climate crisis.
📰 See The Ecologist: shorturl.at/jxY7H
📢 Join online discussion tomorrow, 15-17h CEST.
Register: shorturl.at/HBg7x
#LandGrabbing @theecologist.org @focussouth.bsky.social
📰 See The Ecologist: shorturl.at/jxY7H
📢 Join online discussion tomorrow, 15-17h CEST.
Register: shorturl.at/HBg7x
#LandGrabbing @theecologist.org @focussouth.bsky.social
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🌎 Un petit groupe de propriétaires fonciers transnationaux accumule d'énormes quantités de terres et alimente l'inégalité croissante et la crise climatique.
📢 En savoir plus et comment assurer une distribution plus équitable des terres et des richesses le 3 juin.
S'inscrire : shorturl.at/HBg7x
📢 En savoir plus et comment assurer une distribution plus équitable des terres et des richesses le 3 juin.
S'inscrire : shorturl.at/HBg7x
May 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🌎 Un petit groupe de propriétaires fonciers transnationaux accumule d'énormes quantités de terres et alimente l'inégalité croissante et la crise climatique.
📢 En savoir plus et comment assurer une distribution plus équitable des terres et des richesses le 3 juin.
S'inscrire : shorturl.at/HBg7x
📢 En savoir plus et comment assurer une distribution plus équitable des terres et des richesses le 3 juin.
S'inscrire : shorturl.at/HBg7x
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✍️We sign this urgent appeal of La Via Campesina for global action against the use of famine as a weapon of genocide in Palestine.
Emmanuel Macron must take his responsibilities and pronounce sanctions against Netanyahu's government.
viacampesina.org/en/2025/05/u...
Emmanuel Macron must take his responsibilities and pronounce sanctions against Netanyahu's government.
viacampesina.org/en/2025/05/u...
Urgent Appeal: Global Action Against the Use of Starvation as Genocide in Palestine
In the current context in which an entire population is suffering from starvation, we call upon the people of the world to join us and carry out, on a date of your choice, a GLOBAL DAY OF FASTING duri...
viacampesina.org
May 21, 2025 at 4:06 AM
✍️We sign this urgent appeal of La Via Campesina for global action against the use of famine as a weapon of genocide in Palestine.
Emmanuel Macron must take his responsibilities and pronounce sanctions against Netanyahu's government.
viacampesina.org/en/2025/05/u...
Emmanuel Macron must take his responsibilities and pronounce sanctions against Netanyahu's government.
viacampesina.org/en/2025/05/u...
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My newest piece on how to end starvation and famine in Gaza. The UN General Assembly must authorize peacekeepers to accompany humanitarian convoys.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If aid doesn’t enter Gaza now, 14,000 babies may die. UN peacekeepers must step in | Michael Fakhri
As a UN special rapporteur on the right to food, I have watched for 19 months as Israel starves children. The world must act now
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
My newest piece on how to end starvation and famine in Gaza. The UN General Assembly must authorize peacekeepers to accompany humanitarian convoys.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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🔴Merci au Rapporteur spécial de l'ONU @michelforst.bsky.social pour cette alerte sur l'inaction de @totalenergie.bsky.social face aux attaques répétées aux défenseurs de l'environnement mobilisés contre les projets Tilenga, #EACOP et Kingfisher en Ouganda
Ses mots sont forts, quelques extraits⬇️
Ses mots sont forts, quelques extraits⬇️
May 23, 2025 at 7:28 AM
🔴Merci au Rapporteur spécial de l'ONU @michelforst.bsky.social pour cette alerte sur l'inaction de @totalenergie.bsky.social face aux attaques répétées aux défenseurs de l'environnement mobilisés contre les projets Tilenga, #EACOP et Kingfisher en Ouganda
Ses mots sont forts, quelques extraits⬇️
Ses mots sont forts, quelques extraits⬇️