Following the first two individual and self-training sessions, interactive sessions 3 and 4 are designed to give concrete form to the theoretical context that has been discussed previously. Session 3 will involve collective discussion of concrete cases of violations of peasants’ rights presented by the participants. In session 4, the discussions will focus on how rural organisations can work to put an end to violations, on the implementation of UNDROP and on the tools they can use. Existing and future promotion and implementation efforts and strategies will also be discussed.

Objectives of Session 3 Concrete cases of violations”: During this session, participants will present cases of violations of their rights in their countries/regions and collectively identify the rights that have been violated.

Methodology: Division into working groups (4-5 people maximum). After presenting the cases, the participants will discuss them collectively with the aim of identifying the rights in the Declaration affected by the violations in each case. After these presentations and discussions, they will return to the plenary to present the different cases and discuss them with everyone.

Guiding questions: What problems do you encounter in your daily life? What kind of violatations are you confronted to? Who committed these violations? How did it happen? What are you doing about it?

Objectives of Session 4 “Tools and Implementation“: Development of training, monitoring and advocacy tools to support activities and strategies at national, regional and international levels. Elaboration of an implementation action plan for countries/regions, developed by and for the participants and their respective organizations.

Methodology: Watch the videos and read the training sheets in order to start elaborating a strategy plan for the implementation of UNDROP in your context.

Training videos

• Aspects and general elements of an implementation process (Raffaele Morgantini, CETIM).
  

Training sheets

Training sheet on UNDROP implementation at the international level and on the UN Working Group on UNDROP

Cetim’s training sheet n°12 Strategies for implementation

Research brief of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights “The implementation of the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas”

Presentation of a fundamental tool for the promotion and implementation of the UNDROP:
The website “Defending Peasant Rights” (Coline Hubert, coordinator and editor of the website)

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La Via Campesina and CETIM have organized a training course for La Via Campesina members in August 2023, and are now making training materials available to all. This material is also available in PDF version here.

Session 2 of the UNDROP training seminar aims to provide a general overview and analysis of the key rights of the UNDROP, those that form the backbone of the instrument. This does not mean that other rights are less important, but we have identified these “key rights” as being the most buoyant and, in a way, the most claimed: right to land and natural resources; right to food and food sovereignty; right of rural women; right to social security; right to seeds; right to the environment, water and biodiversity; right to participation; right to an adequate standard of living and means of production; economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights in the context of peasant activities.

Objective of Session 2 “Key rights”: To gain a practical understanding of the core content of the UNDROP and what these articles mean in practice for peasants in the field.

Methodology: Participants will follow a series of video training sessions on key UNDROP rights. They will also be asked to read some key documents relating to each right.

RIGHT TO FOOD SOVEREIGNTY (art.15)

• Read the definition established at the Nyeléni Forum in 2007
• Read article 15 of the UNDROP
• See video training on food sovereignty, by Elizabeth Mpofu (ZIMSOFF, Zimbabwe)

• See the video of La Via Campesina “What is food sovereignty”?

Compulsory training sheets to read:

• La Via Campesina’s Thematic Booklet “Peasants’ rights and food production”
• CETIM’s training sheet “The right to food and food sovereignty”

Complementary materials for further reading:

• FIAN International’s briefing “Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition, and to Food Sovereignty”
• Research brief from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights “The rights to food and to food sovereignty
• Report from Friends of the Earth International “The UN Declaration on the rights of peasants as a tool for promoting collective rights“

RIGHT TO LAND (art.17)

• Read article 17 of the UNDROP
• See video training on right to land, by Paola Gioia (ABL, Germany)

Compulsory training sheets to read:

• La Via Campesina’s Thematic Booklet “Access to resources and means of production” (see in particular pages 4-5-6)
• CETIM’s training sheet “The right to land and natural resources”

Complementary materials for further reading:

• FIAN International briefing “The right to land and other natural resources”
• Research brief on the right to land by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights “The right to land and other natural resources”
• CETIM’s book “Right to land”
• International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPCFS) “People’s Manual on the Guidelines on Governance of Land, Fisheries and Forests“

RIGHT TO AN ADEQUATE STANDARD OF LIVING, A DECENT LIVELIHOOD AND THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION (art.16)

• Read article 16 of the UNDROP
• See video training on this right, by Diego Monton (MNCI Somos Tierra – UTRST, Argentina)

Compulsory training sheets to read:

• La Via Campesina’s Thematic Booklets “Access to resources and means of production” (see in particular pages 9-10) and “Peasants’ Dignified Lives and Livelihoods“
• CETIM’s training sheet “The right to an adequate standard of living, a decent livelihood and the means of production”

Complementary materials for further reading:

RIGHT TO SEEDS (art.19)

• Read article 19 of the UNDROP
• See video training on right to seeds, by Christophe Golay from the Geneva Academy (Switzerland)

Compulsory training sheets to read:

• La Via Campesina’s Thematic Booklet “Access to resources and means of production” (see in particular page 8)
• CETIM’s training sheet “The right to seeds”

Complementary materials for further reading:

• FIAN International briefing “The rights to seeds and biodiversity”
• Research brief on the right to land by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights “Right to seeds and intellectual property rights”
• Research brief on the right to land by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights “The right to seeds in Africa”
• Research brief on the right to land by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights “The right to seeds in Europe”

RIGHT TO PARTICIPATION (art.10)

• Read article 10 of the UNDROP
• See video training on right to participation, by Michelle Zufferey (UNITERRE, Switzerland)

Compulsory training sheets to read:Training sheets to read:

• La Via Campesina’s Thematic Booklet “Access to resources and means of production” (see in particular page 10)
• CETIM’s training sheet “The right to participation”

RIGHTS TO THE ENVIRONEMENT, BIODIVERSITY AND WATER (art. 18, 20 and 21)

• Read articles 18, 20 and 21 of the UNDROP
• See video training on right to participation, by Morgan Ody (Confédération paysanne, France)

Compulsory training sheets to read:

• La Via Campesina’s Thematic Booklet “Access to resources and means of production” (see in particular page 8)
• CETIM’s training sheet “The right to the environement”

Complementary materials for further reading:

• FIAN International briefing “Environmental and Climat Justice”
• FIAN International briefing “Rights to water and sanitation”

RIGHTS OF RURAL WOMEN (art. 4)

• Read article 4 of the UNDROP
• See video training on right to participation, by Chengeto Zumira (ZIMSOFF, Zimbabwe)

Compulsory training sheets to read:

• La Via Campesina’s Thematic Booklets “Peasants as political subjects” and “Peasants’ Dignified Lives and Livelihoods” (see in particular pages 6-7)
• CETIM’s training sheet “Non-discrimination against rural women“

Complementary materials for further reading:

• FIAN International’s briefing “Rural Women’s Rights“

RIGHT TO SOCIAL SECURITY (art. 22)

• Read article 22 of the UNDROP
• See video training on right to participation, by Pramesh Pokharel (All Nepal Peasants Federation, Nepal)

Compulsory training sheets to read:

• La Via Campesina’s Thematic Booklet “Peasants’ Dignified Lives and Livelihoods” (see in particular pages 2-3-4)
• CETIM’s training sheet “Right to social security“

ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS (art. 5, 13, 14, 21, 23, 24, 25 and 26)

• Read articles 5, 13, 14, 21, 23, 24, 25 and 26 of the UNDROP
• See video training on economic, social and cultural rights, by Melik Özden (CETIM)

Compulsory training sheets to read:

• CETIM’s training sheet “Economic, social and cultural rights“

CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS (art. 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12)

• Read articles 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 of the UNDROP
• See video training on civil and political rights, by Melik Özden (CETIM) see above

Compulsory training sheets to read:

• La Via Campesina’s Thematic Booklet “Peasants as political subjects“
• CETIM’s training sheet “Civil and political rights“

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In December 2018, after 17 intense years of work and negotiations, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP), which codifies and protects the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas. This declaration is a historic step towards the protection of the human rights of these populations, as they are the main victims of poverty, hunger and multiple human rights violations in the world. This situation is paradoxical since it is widely accepted that peasants, both in the Global North and the Global South, are key actors in the production of food, in the protection of biodiversity and in the fight against hunger and the global climate crisis.

Objective of session 1: To understand the historical context of UNDROP. It will also be an opportunity to learn about the UN system and the UN human rights mechanisms. How did peasants’ rights become an international issue? What has LVC and its allies learned?

Methodology: Participants will follow a series of video trainings on the history of UNDROP. Also, during this week of study, the organizers will provide a self-assessment questionnaire on these aspects and a space for questions.

FORMATION MATERIAL

• Read the preamble of the UNDROP
• See the video on the history of the UNDROP, by Henry Saragih (SPI, LVC Indonesia)

• See the video on the history of the UNDROP negotiation process by Natalia Pacheco (former diplomat in the Permanent Mission of the Plurinational State of Bolivia).

Compulsory training sheets to read:

• La Via Campesina’s introductory booklet: “United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People working in Rural Areas“
• CETIM’s training sheets “Introduction of the UNDROP“

Complementary materials for further reading:

• See the timeline of the history of the UNDROP in the website Defending Peasants’ Rights
• Read the first part of the book by Coline Hubert (CETIM) “The UNDROP. A tool in the Struggle for our Common Future” (free access to the PDF version here)
• Read the article on the Journal of Peasants Studies “The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People working in Rural Areas”, signed by Marc Edelman and Priscilla Clays

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UNDROP as a poster

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