Peasant Rights

HRC58 Side Event, 13 March 2025

The Role of Peasant Women

The Function of the UNDROP in the Realization of the Right to Food

Side-Event to the 58th Session of the Human Rights Council

Co-organized by the South Centre

Date & Time: 13 March, 13-14h

Venue: Room XXII, Palais des Nations/United Nations Office in Geneva

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HRC55 Side-event, 14 March 2024

PLEASE JOIN US IN HIGH-LEVEL SIDE-EVENT AT THE 55th SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL:

The new Working Group on the Rights of Peasants & Other People Working in Rural Areas: Challenges & perspectives from the field

Palais des Nations – Room XXV

14 March 2024

4-5 PM

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HRC Side Event on the Rights of Peasants and Rural Workers, 15 March 2023

Respecting, protecting and fulfilling the rights of peasants and other rural workers – A clever move in times of multiple crises

A side-event to the 52 session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council

Palais des Nations, Geneva, 15 March 2023

The side-event was co-organized by the Permanent Missions of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Honduras, South Africa, Luxembourg, South Centre, La Via Campesina, Centre Europe – Tiers Monde (CETIM), FIAN International and the Geneva Academy of international humanitarian law and human rights; with the support of some other partners.

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SC Joint Publication – The Right to Seeds in Africa, February 2023

The Right to Seeds in Africa

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas and the Right to Seeds in Africa

Geneva Academy Briefing No. 22

By Karine Peschard, Christophe Golay and Lulbahri Araya

Pursuant to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP), the African Union and African states should ensure that their regional & national laws & policies, as well as international bodies to which they are party, lead to effective protection of peasant rights, including their right to seeds.

The Geneva Academy acknowledges the support of the South Centre for the production of this publication.

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