URGENT | Israeli Forces Attack UAWC’s Seed Bank Multiplication Unit in Hebron
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URGENT | Israeli Forces Attack UAWC’s Seed Bank Multiplication Unit in Hebron

Defending Peasants Rights hereby republishes the statement issued by UAWC on 31/07/2025 Just moments ago, Israeli occupation forces launched a military assault on the Multiplication Unit of UAWC Seed Bank in the Hebron area, using bulldozers and heavy machinery to demolish storage facilities and infrastructure essential to the unit’s operations.The attack resulted in the destruction…

Video of our webinar: RURAL STRUGGLES IN ACTION! UNDROP’s rights holders fight for sustainable and just food systems
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Video of our webinar: RURAL STRUGGLES IN ACTION! UNDROP’s rights holders fight for sustainable and just food systems

Held on 25 June 2025, this webinar showcased and brought visibility to the wide diversity of UNDROP rights holders, highlighting their struggles for sustainable and just food systems. It also shed light on their efforts and views regarding the mobilisation of the UNDROP in rural peoples’ struggle for their rights. The webinar was honoured by…

Challenges facing the Brazilian Peasantry: The UNDROP as a Tool for Struggle
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Challenges facing the Brazilian Peasantry: The UNDROP as a Tool for Struggle

Contribution from La Via Campesina Brazil to the UN Working Group on the UNDROP La Via Campesina Brazil has submitted a written contribution in response to the call from the UN Working Group on peasants’ rights, outlining the main challenges faced by the Brazilian peasantry. Drafted collectively following a training session on the UNDROP for…

Colombia: Constitutional Court Decision Protects Peasants Displaced by Natural Disasters
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Colombia: Constitutional Court Decision Protects Peasants Displaced by Natural Disasters

In a groundbreaking decision issued on April 16, 2024 (Ruling No. T-123/24), the Colombian Constitutional Court granted protection to an elderly peasant couple forced to leave their land after repeated flooding. This ruling marks a turning point in how Colombian jurisprudence addresses internal displacement linked to natural disasters. To do so, the Court relied on…

Sri Lanka: MONLAR asks the governement to reform the Law to Align with UNDROP
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Sri Lanka: MONLAR asks the governement to reform the Law to Align with UNDROP

This article was first published on La Via Campesina’s website on April 25th, 2025. You can find it here. The Movement for Land and Agriculture Reform (MONLAR), representing over 5,000 peasant workers in Sri Lanka, recently made a submission to the government listing out several instances of the violation of the UN Declaration on the…

When rural communities claim their rights! The rights-holders of the UNDROP
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When rural communities claim their rights! The rights-holders of the UNDROP

The process that led to the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) was, above all, an exemplary mobilization and convergence of rural movements. These movements came together in their advocacy efforts to secure this common instrument to fight for the transformation of…

Call for input from the Special Rapporteur on the right to food
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Call for input from the Special Rapporteur on the right to food

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…

Seeds at risk
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Seeds at risk

Global Struggles for Control over Food This publication is a joint work of Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, Association for Plant Breeding for the Benefit of Society, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Southeast Asia Regional Initiatives for Community Empowerment, SWISSAID. Seeds are at the hearts of peasants’ identity and struggles. With UNDROP article 19, it is now a…

Webinar : Voices of Indigenous Pastoralists on 2026 – Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists
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Webinar : Voices of Indigenous Pastoralists on 2026 – Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists

2026 has been declared by the United Nations Organization the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists. WAMIP, the World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Peoples, is preparing for this year, to make sure that the voice of pastoralists will be front and center and their rights upheld. Pastoralists are directily recognized as rights holders of UNDROP….

Colombia: Recognition of peasants in the Constitution – Interview with Martha Elena Huertas Moya
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Colombia: Recognition of peasants in the Constitution – Interview with Martha Elena Huertas Moya

On July 5, 2023, Colombia reformed its Political Constitution, in particular Article 64. Since 1991, Article 64 has laid down the State’s duty to help agricultural workers gain access to land ownership, as well as to a series of rights enabling them to enjoy a better standard of living. This duty remains in the new…

A day of destiny for small farmers in Norway’s Parliament
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A day of destiny for small farmers in Norway’s Parliament

This is a debate post. The opinions in the text are the writers’ own. Six years ago, Norway abstained when the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas was adopted by the UN General Assembly. Now the Parliament has the opportunity to turn this around and show that Norway…