We are proud to announce that the Transnational Migrant Platform-Europe (TMP-E) will participate in the upcoming 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum (Kandy, Sri Lanka, September 6-13 2025).
The struggle of migrant and refugee peoples is inseparable from the struggle for food sovereignty and livelihood. Migration is deeply linked to the corporate global food industry built on exploitation, dehumanization, and utilitarian narratives that reduce migrant workers to cheap labor. Too often, our lives, our forced displacements, and rights are spoken about only in terms of “managing” borders and institutions. As undocumented people, we also live at the intersection of different injustices, where human rights are turned into political weapons instead of lived realities.
From Palestine, to other countries of the Global South and beyond, food is being used as a weapon of war and exclusion. But sites of food production are also sites of resistance, dignity, and future-building. Food sovereignty includes not only the work on the land but also on the seas and oceans, defended by fisherfolk, peasants, and migrant workers and communities worldwide.
At the Nyéléni Forum 2025, we will bring forward our commitment to system and narrative change and to building movements that place the protagonism of migrant and refugee people at the center. Together with movements, like Via Campesina and grassroots networks across the world, we are weaving resistance and alternatives to the corporate system that profits from our displacement, repression, and exploitation. We reject the current frameworks of the global and European compacts that criminalise us and erase our human rights and in response we are participating in building a Global Pact of Solidarity.
Our participation is part of a broader effort to strengthen convergence across struggles (from regularization campaigns in Europe to cross-border mobilizations like the Caravanas) to demand housing, health, labor rights, land and food sovereignty and justice for everyone. Our resistance is not only defensive. It is offensive. It is about building the future we want!
More info on the Nyéléni Global Forum: https://nyeleniglobalforum.org/
Resources:
https://www.tni.org/en/article/communities-of-resistance
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