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Common Struggles, Different Roots: Indigenous and Landless People’s Food Sovereignties in Southern Brazil
Thesis to obtain the Master in International and Development Studies of the Graduate Institute in International and Development Studies in Geneva AbstractFocusing on the Guarani Mbyá and the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in Santa Catarina, this thesis explores the similarities and differences between indigenous and landless food sovereignty. It shows how their narratives are intertwined…
Peasants’ rights: Reflections on COP27
Another UN Climate COP has come and gone – the 27th to be precise – and the so-called “negotiators” of the global climate crisis again proved themselves utterly unwilling or unable to limit the reign of fossil fuel capitalists, corporate agribusiness or their friends in high finance. For La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement…
The UNDROP: A Tool of Struggle for Our Common Future
CETIM’s book (digital version in free access) “The UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants. A Tool of Struggle for Our Common Future” tells the story of how an idea from an Indonesian peasants’ union can go a long way… Up to the adoption of an international instrument within the UN. The UN is the…
Defending Peasants’ Rights – Newsletter n°6
New category on the website: The UN Working Group on UNDROP In September, Defending Peasants’ Rights added a new category: the UN Working Group on UNDROP! The creation of the Working Group is a major step forward for the implementation of UNDROP at all levels. It’s important to make it accessible to everyone, by putting together…
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in UNDROP
Training sheet In this training sheet by CETIM, you will find a presentation of all the “economic, social and cultural” rights enshrined in UNDROP:
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas: One Step Forward in the Promotion of Human Rights for the Most Vulnerable
This article is a Research Paper from the South Center, it was first published in November 2020. In this paper the two authors, who were key actors of the adoption of UNDROP, explain how the UNDROP came to be, some of the rights enshrined in it and finally they open perspectives for the future. There…