References on UNDROP in the work of the United Nations Human Rights mechanisms
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References on UNDROP in the work of the United Nations Human Rights mechanisms

Find here all the references on UNDROP by all the Human Rights mechanisms, with periodic update. For an explanation of the use of the UNDROP by the UN Human Rights mechanisms, read our article here. NEW ! Universal Periodic Review Human Rights Council’s Special Procedures Joint Statements: Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Special…

Human Rights Council Side Event: The Rights of Peasants and Rural Workers in times of multiple crises held in Geneva
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Human Rights Council Side Event: The Rights of Peasants and Rural Workers in times of multiple crises held in Geneva

This article was originally published in the website of the South Centre A side-event to the 52 session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, titled “Respecting, protecting and fulfilling the rights of peasants and other rural workers – A clever move in times of multiple crises” was held at the Palais des Nations,…

France: Stop the criminalization of peasants who fight against water grabbing mega-basins
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France: Stop the criminalization of peasants who fight against water grabbing mega-basins

Introduction (by Defending Peasants’ Rights, updated on June 21st) In France, the stakes around water have grown considerably with the development of giant retention basins projects for agricultural irrigation. These water grabbing projects are an attack not only on the right to water of the family peasantry, which threatens the living and working conditions of…

Webinar : Alive and kicking. Peasants’ rights into practice, a regional perspective
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Webinar : Alive and kicking. Peasants’ rights into practice, a regional perspective

La Via Campesina and Defending Peasants’ Rights will held a webinar for the International day of Peasants Struggles, April 17th 2023, at 12.00 UTC. To see at what time it will be in your time zone go here. CONNECTION LINK Join us to discover how collectives and communities are using the UNDROP to further their…

Cooking up political agendas
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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…

Navigating Dreams & Precarity: Working and Learning Conditions of Young Agricultural Workers, Interns and Volunteers Across Europe
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Navigating Dreams & Precarity: Working and Learning Conditions of Young Agricultural Workers, Interns and Volunteers Across Europe

A report by Priscilla Claeys and Barbara Van Dyck, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, CAWR, Coventry University, UKPublished by the Youth Articulation of the European Coordination of Via Campesina (ECVC), July 2022 This report was first published on ECVC website January 31rst, 2023. You can find it here. Peasant farmers and young agricultural workers…

Honduras: Supreme Court uses UNDROP article 19 on the right to seeds to declare unconstitutional the Monsanto Law
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Honduras: Supreme Court uses UNDROP article 19 on the right to seeds to declare unconstitutional the Monsanto Law

In November 2021, the Supreme Court of Honduras unanimously declared the Plant Variety Protection Law (Decree Nº 21-2012) unconstitutional, on the grounds that it violated the Constitution, various international treaties ratified by Honduras, as well as international standards related to the protection of the right to adequate nutrition. This judgment is one of the first to…

Launching the UNDROP booklet in Brazil: Potency, hope and resistance!
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Launching the UNDROP booklet in Brazil: Potency, hope and resistance!

After nearly two decades of struggle to advance the peasants’ rights agenda in the international fora of the United Nations, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas was finally adopted in 2018. What a ground-breaking victory for the several social movements and organisations that persistently fought for…

The path of Peasant and Popular Feminism in La Via Campesina
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The path of Peasant and Popular Feminism in La Via Campesina

This publication was originally published on the La Via Campesina website on June 11, 2021. La Via Campesina, presents the publication “The Path of Peasant and Popular Feminism in La Via Campesina” with the aim of strengthening the training processes of the Movement and to build Peasant and Popular Feminism as a political tool against…

The right to land
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The right to land

This publication is available in CETIM’s website. The recognition of the right to land, a historic demand by peasant movements throughout the world, is gaining momentum at the international level. This publication takes stock of this major issue of our times, fundamental not only for all peasants but also for the rest of humanity, at…