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People’s Manual on the Guidelines on Governance of Land, Fisheries and Forests

A guide for promotion, implementation, monitoring and evaluation This manual was published by the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty in 2016. You can find it here. The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security were officially endorsed by the Committee on World…

Cooking up political agendas

Feminist materials on the right to food and nutrition for women in rural areas “Cooking up political agendas” was first published on Fian international website on September 7, 2020. You can find it here. With “Cooking up political agenda” Fian international proposes a full set of tools to organize struggles for the right to food…

Switzerland-UN: What measures to support the promotion of peasants’ rights?

This article was first published on CETIM’s website, on January 27th, 2023. You can find it here. On January 27, 2023, the human rights situation in Switzerland was examined in the framework of its Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a UN mechanism for monitoring the rights situation in all UN member countries. In this context, our…

Putting Peasants Rights Into Practice

Event on the UNDROP and Switzerland’s Foreign Policy During HEKS/EPER Land Forum 2021, was held an online event with the Geneva Academy of international humanitarian law and human rights and the coalition of Swiss NGOs “Friends of the Déclaration”. Based on the study “Switzerland’s Foreign Policy and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of…

Research brief: Switzerland’s foreign policy and the UNDROP

This Research Brief was written in the framework of the Coalition of Swiss organizations “Friends of the Declaration”, it was first published in August 2022. The coalition “Friends of the Declaration” was created following the adoption of the UNDROP in 2018, and aims to ensure that the rights enshrined in the Declaration are implemented by…

Access to Land for Youth in the Canton of Geneva: Barriers and Pathways

In this article, Sonja Muriel Plüss analyses the social, legal and economic barriers to access to land for youth in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland. The paper argues that the current Swiss socioeconomic and legal system of family farming is arranged in a way that not only significantly hinders access to land to youth but…

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On December 17, 2018, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP).

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