[P2P-F] Fwd: [CommonGood] fyi: urgent request re Myanmar agrarian campaign

Thu Dec 27 16:17:31 CET 2018

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From: Birgit Daiber <bir.dai at hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 4:02 PM
Subject: [CommonGood] fyi: urgent request re Myanmar agrarian campaign
To: commongood at listi.jpberlin.de <commongood at listi.jpberlin.de>

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*From:* aepf-request at lists.riseup.net <aepf-request at lists.riseup.net> on
behalf of Shalmali Guttal <s.guttal at focusweb.org>
*Sent:* Tuesday, December 18, 2018 1:23 PM
*To:* Shalmali Guttal
*Subject:* [aepf] Fwd: urgent request re Myanmar agrarian campaign

Dear Colleagues,

Please see below an urgent request for endorsements for a statement in
support of rural peoples’ rights to land.

*Please sign the statement by clicking on the link — this is the only way
to sign it.*

Please also share widely among your networks for more endorsements.

Thank you and best wishes,  Shalmali

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*From: *Jun Borras <junborras5 at gmail.com>
*Subject: **urgent request re Myanmar agrarian campaign*
*Date: *18 December AD 2018 15:04:54 GMT+7
*To: *Shalmali Guttal <s.guttal at focusweb.org>, Shalmali Guttal <
shalmaliguttal at gmail.com>

Dear Shal --

Something quite urgent, politically, is unfolding in Myanmar that requires
intervention in the form of international solidarity -- which will mean a
lot to the ongoing political campaign of grassroots groups to resist
massive land dispossession.

Grassroots groups in Myanmar believe that the Vacant, Fallow and Virgin
(VFV) Land Management Law passed in 2012 facilitated widespread land
dispossession of rural population, especially of poor ethnic minorities, as
well as internally displaced peoples and refugees. They also believe that
the revised version of the 2012 VFV Law, dated September 2018, made the law
even worse as it can potentially and very likely facilitate or legitimize
further dispossession, could undermine serious attempts at peace-building,
and is likely to criminalize rural poor people's land claims.

Thus, it is very critical -- and urgent -- to support the voices of rural
villagers, internally displaced peoples and refugees and their allies among
civil society groups resisting the VFV Land Law – and their right to
exercise their civil and political rights to resist without threat of
retribution.

Therefore, some of us in the international community have taken the
initiative to gather support for the grassroots campaign in Myanmar.

Here is the link for the statement, and the space to sign up:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dUXRWlNS1jeCd8_WaGuqq8C1mbB9RS3b1qN6EVIszrY/edit?usp=sharing

Hope you will be able to sign up, and also perhaps forward it to other key
CSO leaders and other appropriate individuals for them to sign up as well.

Many thanks,
Jun

>
Shalmali Guttal
Executive Director
Focus on the Global South
CUSRI: 4th Floor Wisit Prachuabmoh Building
Chulalongkorn University
Phayathai Road, Bangkok 10330
THAILAND
Telephone: +66 22187363-65
Fax: (+66-2) 255 9976
www.focusweb.org

Would you like to help us?

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