Food Sovereignty as a Lever to End Corporate Impunity: A powerful Side Event at the UN featuring social movements and UNDROP rights holders.
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Food Sovereignty as a Lever to End Corporate Impunity: A powerful Side Event at the UN featuring social movements and UNDROP rights holders.

ByPierre Patelli (CETIM)

Global food systems stand today at the epicenter of a profound confrontation between two irreconcilable paradigms: an extractivist, agro-industrial model driven by transnational capital, and the struggle of peoples and rural communities for food sovereignty, environmental justice, and the right to health. During the twelfth session of the United Nations negotiations toward a legally binding…

Video Interview with the Authors of the Landmark Book “Peasant Rebellion: Agrarian Reform and Agroecology in Brazil”
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Video Interview with the Authors of the Landmark Book “Peasant Rebellion: Agrarian Reform and Agroecology in Brazil”

ByDefending Peasants' Rights

In this exclusive interview for Defending Peasants’ Rights, the authors of Peasant Rebellion: Agrarian Reform and Agroecology in Brazil discuss the origins, findings and enduring relevance of a research project conducted in 2003–2004 and recently published as a book in Brazil. The conversation brings together four contributors: Mônica Dias Martins, a retired professor at the…

Rural Women’s Assembly Receives the 2026 Right Livelihood Award!
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Rural Women’s Assembly Receives the 2026 Right Livelihood Award!

ByDefending Peasants' Rights

Defending Peasants’ Rights is delighted to share the news that the Southern African movement Rural Women’s Assembly has won the 2026 Right Livelihood Award! Over the years, Rural Women’s Assembly has been a crucial movement in the fight for the implementation of UNDROP across Southern Africa. It has played a key role in disseminating the…

New Factsheet on the Rights of Mobile Indigenous Peoples and Pastoralists: UNDROP as a legal and political leverage
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New Factsheet on the Rights of Mobile Indigenous Peoples and Pastoralists: UNDROP as a legal and political leverage

ByDefending Peasants' Rights

This new factsheet by WAMIP and CETIM shows how UNDROP can be used as a legal and political tool to defend mobile indigenous peoples’s rights: from land, food sovereignty and livelihoods to biodiversity, participation, women’s rights, climate justice and more. Nomadic and transhumant pastoralists face growing threats to their territories, water resources and traditional grazing…

New Report by the UN Working Group on UNDROP on territorialities of land and sea
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New Report by the UN Working Group on UNDROP on territorialities of land and sea

ByDefending Peasants' Rights

After receiving contributions from various UNDROP rights-holder movements and organisations, as well as States, the UN Working Group on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas recently released its latest report on the territorialities of land and sea. The report highlights the growing gap between the recognition of territorial rights under…

LVC Calls on the UN Human Rights Council to Renew the Mandate of the Working Group of Experts on UNDROP
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LVC Calls on the UN Human Rights Council to Renew the Mandate of the Working Group of Experts on UNDROP

ByDefending Peasants' Rights

This article was originally published by La Via Campesina on 16 September 2026. (Geneva, 16 September 2026) — La Via Campesina, supported by CETIM and FIAN International, is in Geneva from 12 to 19 September to participate in the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UN HRC), which is taking place from…

Call for input – Working Group on UNDROP visits Paraguay
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Call for input – Working Group on UNDROP visits Paraguay

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Defending Peasants Rights hereby shares a Call for Input released by the UN Working Group on UNDROP ahead of its visit to Paraguay. We highly encourage Paraguayan rural movements and organisations, as well as their allies, to participate in this important process. Please see the full call below: Purpose:To inform the Working Group on the…

The Growing Centrality of UNDROP in the International Governance of the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas
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The Growing Centrality of UNDROP in the International Governance of the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas

ByRaffaele Morgantini (CETIM)

Defending Peasants’ Rights is pleased to republish the article by Raffaele Morgantini, originally published by the South Centre in SouthViews, No. 312, on 27 August 2026.

Call for Input: Environmental human rights defenders and the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment

Call for Input: Environmental human rights defenders and the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment

ByDefending Peasants' Rights

Editor’s note: The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human right to a healthy environment has launched a call for inputs to inform a forthcoming thematic report on environmental human rights defenders, to be presented at the 64th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. This is an important opportunity for rural social movements,…

Without land, without seeds, there is no future for farmers
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Without land, without seeds, there is no future for farmers

ByElena Rusca - Geneviève Savigny

Article originally published in Spanish by Elena Rusca on June 25, 2026, in the Chilean newspaper El Clarín. Available here. *Image: El mundo campesino. Elena Rusca By Elena Rusca, June 25th, 2026 Interview with Geneviève Savigny, a member of the UN Working Group on the Rights of Peasants (UNDROP) Geneva, June 25th, 2026 — Elena…

Solidarity with Bolivia’s peasant and Indigenous organizations
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Solidarity with Bolivia’s peasant and Indigenous organizations

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Defending Peasants’ Rights extends solidarity with Bolivia’s peasant and Indigenous organizations extraordinary uprising that gripped the country for over 50 days. What began as a response to a proposed land reform, which would have facilitated land concentration by large landowners, quickly escalated into a broad grassroots-based movement demanding the resignation of the corporate-led administration of…

Agrarian Counter-Reforms: Anatomy of a Dispossession in Progress
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Agrarian Counter-Reforms: Anatomy of a Dispossession in Progress

ByDefending Peasants' Rights

Defending Peasants’ Rights hereby shares a study authored by Carlos Duarte, member of the UN Working Group on UNDROP, and published by the Pontifical Javeriana University of Cali and the Land Observatory (Observatorio de Tierras) in May 2026. The study examines the growing trend of agrarian counter-reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean and their…