NFSA and
Beyond
Right to
Food, Democracy and Social Justice
We the members of the Right to Food campaign, who are
gathered here from 15 states across the country for the fifth national
convention, express our solidarity with all peoples’ movements and struggles
for basic rights, Democracy and Social Justice. We deeply mourn the death of
all our comrades who have lost their lives in the various battles for people’s
causes including the right to information, against land alienation and
anti-poor policies of the state. We are deeply aggrieved by the needless deaths
of men, women, transgender people and children because of persisting hunger,
malnutrition and lack of health care, of women because of lack of maternal
nutrition and care. We also express our sorrow for the death of the thousands
of toiling farmers, labouring people who have committed suicide, each year
losing their struggle for survival and lives lost as a result of communal and
caste violence.
We condemn the fact that 67 years after Independence,
a large section of our people are denied their basic rights to food, nutrition,
health, education, livelihood and social security, justice and peace.
We condemn the continued discrimination against
dalits, minorities, tribals, women, transgender community and disabled. We are
deeply concerned with the shrinking democratic spaces for people’s movements
and pro-poor policy making. Even as
non-violent, peaceful agitations are being crushed brutally by an increasingly
repressive state, we resolve to continue our struggles for the right to food,
democracy and social justice. We stand in solidarity with all movements against
patriarchy and violence against women and pro-people democratic political
forces. We condemn the interference in our sovereign food systems by the WTO
mechanisms, FTAs and other international trade agreements and the decision to
allow field trials of GM crops in India.
