Peasants Rights Now!
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Peasants Rights Now!

This article was first published in Peasants Voice, the All Nepal Peasant Federation (ANPFa) Bulletin, in May 2022. In this article Pramesh Pokharel, who is General Secretary of ANPFa, introduces the UNDROP and encourages Nepalese peasants to appropriate the UNDROP and use it for their struggles. Background We know about various United Nations instruments to…

The United Nations Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas
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The United Nations Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas

This paper was published in October 2019 in the Journal of Peasants Studies, in its Grassroots Voices section. They are described as : “views that are written and presented in a non-academic style which provide important insights and information relevant to critical rural development studies. Grassroots Voices are intended to share wisdom and analysis direct…

Declaration of Peasants Rights: An Instrument in the Struggle for Land
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Declaration of Peasants Rights: An Instrument in the Struggle for Land

Now that the Declaration completes 4 years, read about some achievements and challenges of the peasant movement to implement it #LVC30Years #PeasantRightsNow This article was first publish on Capire’s website on December 20th, 2022. You can find it here. The Declaration of Peasant Rights was approved by the United Nations (UN) on December 17, 2018….

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,…

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…

Switzerland-UN: What measures to support the promotion of peasants’ rights?
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Switzerland-UN: What measures to support the promotion of peasants’ rights?

This article was first published on CETIM’s website, on January 27th, 2023. You can find it here. On January 27, 2023, the human rights situation in Switzerland was examined in the framework of its Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a UN mechanism for monitoring the rights situation in all UN member countries. In this context, our…

Putting Peasants Rights Into Practice
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Putting Peasants Rights Into Practice

Event on the UNDROP and Switzerland’s Foreign Policy During HEKS/EPER Land Forum 2021, was held an online event with the Geneva Academy of international humanitarian law and human rights and the coalition of Swiss NGOs “Friends of the Déclaration”. Based on the study “Switzerland’s Foreign Policy and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of…

Research brief: Switzerland’s foreign policy and the UNDROP
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Research brief: Switzerland’s foreign policy and the UNDROP

This Research Brief was written in the framework of the Coalition of Swiss organizations “Friends of the Declaration”, it was first published in August 2022. The coalition “Friends of the Declaration” was created following the adoption of the UNDROP in 2018, and aims to ensure that the rights enshrined in the Declaration are implemented by…

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…

The UN Declaration on the rights of peasants as a tool for promoting collective rights
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The UN Declaration on the rights of peasants as a tool for promoting collective rights

This article was published in Friends of the Earth International’s website in April 2021. Around the world, people and communities are active in defence of the commons, territories, and peoples’ rights. From peasants protecting their seeds and traditional practices from transnational agribusiness to forest communities resisting destructive logging, many of these collective struggles take place…

Inauguration of the peasants’ union SPI Food Sovereignty Area in Bogor, Indonesia
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Inauguration of the peasants’ union SPI Food Sovereignty Area in Bogor, Indonesia

On March 31st, 2022 the Indonesian Peasants Union (SPI) inaugurated the Food Sovereignty Area (KDP) in Ciaruteun Ilir Village, Cibungbulang District, Bogor Regency, West Java. This food sovereignty area is a concrete example of the local realization of the rights of peasants, as enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and…