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 the distinguished presence of Ms. Shalmali Guttal, member of the UN Working Group on the UNDROP, who provided not only an overview but also an interpretation of the Working Group’s understanding of Article 1 of the declaration, which defines its rights holders.
Moreover, a plurality of rural constituencies – represented through their global movements/organizations – participated in the rights holders’ panel, bringing their struggles into perspective in relation to our shared efforts to implement the rural peoples’ rights enshrined in the UNDROP at both international and national levels. The following movements and organisations provided valuable inputs in this important meeting of UNDROP’s rights holders:
- World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous People (WAMIP)
- International Federation of Rural Adult Catholic Movements (FIMARC)
- World Forum of Fisher People (WFFP)
- International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF)
- Rural Women Assembly (RWA)
- La Via Campesina (LVC)
- Sea Nomads Contact Group
Webinar Structure [with video timings]:
Introduction [Beginning – 15m16s] : Defending Peasants Rights and FIAN International
Understanding UNDROP’s Article 1 [15m16s – 30m06s] : Ms. Shalmali Guttal – UN Working Group on the UNDROP
Roundtable of UNDROP’s right holders [30m06s – 01h42m] : Moderation by CETIM; Speakers: Fernando García-Dory – WAMIP; Modesta Arevalo – FIMARC; Jones Thomas – WFFP; Sue Longley – IUF; Norah Mlondobozi – RWA; David Otieno – LVC; Henri Simarmata – Sea Nomads Contact Group
Final remarks [01h42m – End] : Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
