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Video: The UN Declaration on Peasants’ Rights (UNDROP) explained
This video, published by La Via Campesina as part of its training process, explores the main ideas of the UNDROP. It explains how peasants can use this Declaration in their struggles for Food Sovereignty, Peasant Agroecology, Climate Justice, Agrarian Reform and Human Rights.
How to implement the UNDROP at the European and national level to promote peasants’ rights – publication and video
Update – Recording available! Public event “How to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) at the European and national level to promote sustainable and resilient food systems”, 19 February 2025. The event aimed to discuss with key representatives of the European Union how…
A View from the Countryside: Contesting and constructing human rights in an age of converging crises
This text is a collective publication of the Transnational Institute, Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI) and Fian International. Abstract In the face of the interlinked global financial and climate crisis, there is an urgent need to understand and use human rights frameworks in radical ways. Climate change itself poses massive threats to human rights, but…
Video of our webinar “The next chapter in the struggle for UNDROP: learning about the new UN Working Group”
For the International Day of Peasant’s Struggles on April 17, Defending Peasants’ Rights and La Via Campesina held a webinar on the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on UNDROP, with three of its experts: Shalmali Guttal, Carlos Duarte and Geneviève Savigny. The UNDROP Working Group was created by a resolution of the Human Rights…
UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants: What it Means for Canada
In this webinar, panelists explored the scope of the new UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas and what it means for Canada. Presentations and panelists: Why is UNDROP necessary? : Geneviève Savigny, La Vía Campesina’s Peasant Rights Collective, Confédération Paysanne, France A Crucial Right: The Right to…