A View from the Countryside: Contesting and constructing human rights in an age of converging crises
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A View from the Countryside: Contesting and constructing human rights in an age of converging crises

ByKatie Sandwell, Angélica Castañeda Flores, Lyda Fernanda Forero, Jennifer Franco, Sofia Monsalve Suárez, Andrea Nuila and Philip Seufert

This text is a collective publication of the Transnational Institute, Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI) and Fian International. Abstract In the face of the interlinked global financial and climate crisis, there is an urgent need to understand and use human rights frameworks in radical ways. Climate change itself poses massive threats to human rights, but…

‘We Feed the World’ | An illustrated book in defense of peasant agriculture
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‘We Feed the World’ | An illustrated book in defense of peasant agriculture

ByLa Vía Campesina

Transnational Agribusiness has long violated the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas with impunity. Backed by capital accumulated by exploiting agricultural producers, these Corporations work in connivance with local authorities, governments and sometimes even mercenaries. They forcefully evict people from their lands, push through pro-corporate reforms at the cost of public…

UN Human Rights Committee protects the right to land in Paraguay using the UNDROP
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UN Human Rights Committee protects the right to land in Paraguay using the UNDROP

ByDefending Peasants' Rights

At the global level, in 2019 the Human Rights Committee – which is responsible to monitor the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in the more than 170 States Parties to the ICCPR – became the first UN Treaty Body to refer to the UNDROP, in its decision in Portillo…