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…
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…
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.
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Defending Peasants’ Rights is pleased to share a landmark study, published in April 2026 by researchers from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Cali, Colombia, including Carlos Duarte, member of the UN Working Group on UNDROP. This study provides the first regional mapping of laws recognising peasants and other rural populations across Latin America. It analyses…
Author: Zainal Arifin Fuat, leader from the Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI) and member of the International Coordination Committee of La Via Campesina This article was originally published in the journal Lendemains Solidaires, available in French here. Food Sovereignty is intended as the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food, produced through ecologically sound…
The international webinar titled “Reinvigorating the Bandung Spirit to Strengthen Global South Solidarity,” held by the Indonesian Peasant Union (SPI) on 6 May 2026, marked the 71st Anniversary of the Asian-African Conference. It brought together participants from across Asia and Africa to revisit the Bandung Spirit and reflect on its continued relevance in today’s world,…
Following a ten-day visit to Ghana at the invitation of the Government, the Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas released an incisive statement (see below) highlighting the main outcomes of its visit, including advancements and ongoing challenges faced by UNDROP rights holders in Ghana in the realisation…
In this academic article published in 2023, Miguel Ángel Martín López, Associate Professor of Public International Law at the University of Seville, analyses the main pathways for making the rights recognised in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) effective in practice. On this basis,…
