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…
Article written by Fuad Abu Saif, Palestinian grassroots activist and researcher in the struggle for land and dignity, affiliated with the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) and member of the international coordination of La Via Campesina. This article was written for Defending Peasants’ Rights, as part of the International Day of Peasant’s Struggles on…
April 17, 2025 Today, we join hands with peasants, landless rural workers, small-scale food producers, Indigenous Peoples, and other peoples working in rural areas around the world to mark the International Day of Peasant Struggles. Land grabbing continues to intensify, driven by agribusiness, mining, energy projects, and so-called “development” plans. Forests and ancestral lands are…
We publish here the Nyeleni Bulletin n°59 of March 2025. The bulletin is entirely devoted to the struggles of fishermen and fisherwomen around the world. After an introduction setting out the global context of the monopolization of oceans, seas and rivers and the destruction of artisanal fishing, the bulletin takes us to the struggles in…
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…
In May 2023, the International Labour Organization (ILO) held its Meeting of Experts on Decent Work in the Agro-Food Industry: an essential component of sustainable food systems. The Meeting of Experts adopted the Policy guidelines for the promotion of decent work in the agri-food sector, which are the subject of this article. The ILO, created…
Update – Recording available! Public event “How to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) at the European and national level to promote sustainable and resilient food systems”, 19 February 2025. The event aimed to discuss with key representatives of the European Union how…
The UN Working Group on UNDROP is issuing a call for inputs for its next thematic reports on global trends and challenges affecting peasants and other people working in rural areas (for the Human Rights Council), as well as on the right to participation (for the UN General Assembly). This call for inputs is addressed…
Geneva Academy’s press release, 13 January 2025 We are pleased to announce the publication of a new Research Brief authored by Dr. Christophe Golay, which examines the role of the United Nations (UN) Working Group (WG) on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas. This Research Brief is available in English,…
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…
