You will find here articles written by journalists, civil society organizations and social movements about UNDROP or subjects related to peasants’ rights.
Call for Input : Concentration of corporate power in global food systems and its implications for the realization of the right to food All the special procedures of the UN Human Rights Council can published calls for inputs. These calls are addressed to any interested parties to the subject. Civil society organizations and human rights…
This presentation was given by Shalmali Guttal at the Public Discussion “Commemorating 70 years of the Asia-Africa Conference ” on April 29th, 2025. Shalmali is a member of the UN Working Group on UNDROP. It is part of a series marking the 70th anniversary of the 1955 Bandung Conference. A turning point in anti-colonial and…
RURAL STRUGGLES IN ACTION! UNDROP’s rights holders fight for sustainable and just food systems! Statement from Defending Peasants’ Rights Editorial board, May 6th, 2025 We are very sorry to have to inform you that our webinar “Rural struggles in action” was hacked and violently attacked today. To insure everyone safety we had to stop…
Calls for inputs from the UN Working Group At the beginning of February, the UN Working Group on UNDROP published a new call for inputs: Global trends in challenges affecting peasants and other people working in rural areas, as well as their right to equal participation. This call is an opportunity for all organizations to…
Elisa Morgera, the UN Special Rapporteur on on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, has issued 2 calls for inputs that can be related to Peasants’ Rights: Fossil Fuel-based Economy and human rights and Human Rights in the life cycle of Renewable Energy and Critical Minerals. All the…
Introduction The UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas is often abbreviated to the Declaration of the Rights of Peasants, yet it would be a disservice to the Declaration to overlook the other groups it protects. This article will focus on one such group of people who also…
Article 2 of UNDROP deals with the general obligations of States in respect of all the rights enshrined in the Declaration. Article 2.1 takes up the typology of State obligations recognized in international law, the obligations to respect, protect and fulfill all human rights. The obligation to respect the rights of peasants and others working…
This text was orginally published in a Research brief of the Geneva Academy for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. This text tackles and puts light on the content of article 27 of the UNDROP, which establishes the responsabilities of international and regional organizations in terms of promotion and implementation of the provisions of the…
Session of the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development : Notes on the thematic discussion “Trade, biodiversity and the right to development: an equation to be constructed“ La Via Campesina and CETIM took part in the thematic discussions organized during the 10th session of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development. In…
This article was first published on La Via Campesina’s website on November 14th, you can find it here. From the 21st to the 25th of October 2024, the United Nations Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (the Working Group) held its second session in Geneva. The Working…
New category on the website: The UN Working Group on UNDROP In September, Defending Peasants’ Rights added a new category: the UN Working Group on UNDROP! The creation of the Working Group is a major step forward for the implementation of UNDROP at all levels. It’s important to make it accessible to everyone, by putting together…
Notes from the authors Introduction In this article we propose three approaches to recognize the “environmental component of the peasantry” in international environmental law. This concept, introduced by the Colombian Constitution through Legislative Act 01 of 2023, mandates that decision-making processes affecting peasants take into account their special relationship with the ecosystems they rely on….
