Video Interview with the Authors of the Landmark Book “Peasant Rebellion: Agrarian Reform and Agroecology in Brazil”
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Video Interview with the Authors of the Landmark Book “Peasant Rebellion: Agrarian Reform and Agroecology in Brazil”

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In this exclusive interview for Defending Peasants’ Rights, the authors of Peasant Rebellion: Agrarian Reform and Agroecology in Brazil discuss the origins, findings and enduring relevance of a research project conducted in 2003–2004 and recently published as a book in Brazil. The conversation brings together four contributors: Mônica Dias Martins, a retired professor at the…

Rural Women’s Assembly Receives the 2026 Right Livelihood Award!
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Rural Women’s Assembly Receives the 2026 Right Livelihood Award!

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Defending Peasants’ Rights is delighted to share the news that the Southern African movement Rural Women’s Assembly has won the 2026 Right Livelihood Award! Over the years, Rural Women’s Assembly has been a crucial movement in the fight for the implementation of UNDROP across Southern Africa. It has played a key role in disseminating the…

New Factsheet on the Rights of Mobile Indigenous Peoples and Pastoralists: UNDROP as a legal and political leverage
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New Factsheet on the Rights of Mobile Indigenous Peoples and Pastoralists: UNDROP as a legal and political leverage

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This new factsheet by WAMIP and CETIM shows how UNDROP can be used as a legal and political tool to defend mobile indigenous peoples’s rights: from land, food sovereignty and livelihoods to biodiversity, participation, women’s rights, climate justice and more. Nomadic and transhumant pastoralists face growing threats to their territories, water resources and traditional grazing…

New Report by the UN Working Group on UNDROP on territorialities of land and sea
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New Report by the UN Working Group on UNDROP on territorialities of land and sea

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After receiving contributions from various UNDROP rights-holder movements and organisations, as well as States, the UN Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas recently released its latest report on the territorialities of land and sea. The report highlights the growing gap between the recognition of territorial rights under…

LVC Calls on the UN Human Rights Council to Renew the Mandate of the Working Group of Experts on UNDROP
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LVC Calls on the UN Human Rights Council to Renew the Mandate of the Working Group of Experts on UNDROP

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This article was originally published by La Via Campesina on 16 September 2026. (Geneva, 16 September 2026) — La Via Campesina, supported by CETIM and FIAN International, is in Geneva from 12 to 19 September to participate in the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN HRC), which is taking place from…

Call for input – Working Group on UNDROP visits Paraguay
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Call for input – Working Group on UNDROP visits Paraguay

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Defending Peasants Rights hereby shares a Call for Input released by the UN Working Group on UNDROP ahead of its visit to Paraguay. We highly encourage Paraguayan rural movements and organisations, as well as their allies, to participate in this important process. Please see the full call below: Purpose:To inform the Working Group on the…

New Report by the UN Working Group on UNDROP on the Right to Seeds: Defending the Commons, Resisting Corporate Control
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New Report by the UN Working Group on UNDROP on the Right to Seeds: Defending the Commons, Resisting Corporate Control

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What happens when something as fundamental as the seeds we rely on for food becomes a commodity? The new report by the UN Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas examines the growing battle over seeds through the lenses of human rights, food sovereignty and biodiversity. At its…

IARAA: Artificial intelligence at the service of the peasantry and food sovereignty in Brazil
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IARAA: Artificial intelligence at the service of the peasantry and food sovereignty in Brazil

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In Brazil, the World March of Women (WMW) and the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) joined forces with the International Association for Popular Cooperation (Baobab) to develop an innovative artificial intelligence project aimed at advancing agroecology and agrarian reform by strengthening popular digital sovereignty. IARAA (Artificial Intelligence for Agrarian Reform and Agroecology) was launched in…

Defending Peasants’ Rights – Newsletter n°10

Defending Peasants’ Rights – Newsletter n°10

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The UN Working Group on UNDROP: civil society consultation and first country visit  Engaging UNDROP’s rights holders in the next thematic report of the Working Group Defending Peasants’ Rights continues to collaborate closely with the experts from the UN Working Group on UNDROP. In March 2026, we organised an online dialogue with the former chair…

Report on the Promotion and Implementation of the UNDROP in Cuba
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Report on the Promotion and Implementation of the UNDROP in Cuba

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Defending Peasants Rights is pleased to publish this report dedicated to the Cuban laboratory on peasant rights and food sovereignty, elaborated by the Cuban Association of Small-Scale Farmers (ANAP), with the support of CETIM. Cuba’s experience demonstrates that the principles and provisions enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other…