UNDROP 1st Anniversary statement
The need to take steps to implement the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas
17 December 2019
The following joint statement has been made by a group of United Nations human rights experts* to mark the 1st anniversary of the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Are- as by the UN General Assembly on 17 December 2018.
“The UNDROP builds on a number of binding international treaties from which it has taken agreed language, including the International Covenant on Eco- nomic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Po- litical Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Mem- bers of Their Families, the Convention on Biological Diversity and its Proto- cols, and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.
The implementation of the UNDROP represents a unique and precedent- setting opportunity to redress various forms of discrimination, systematic vio- lations and historical disadvantage that have affected peasants and other people working in rural areas along decades. They represent 80% of the world’s hungry1, 70% of those living in extreme poverty2, and produce 80% of the world’s food supply, as stated by the Committee on World Food Securi- ty. The UNDROP is a call for justice based on the culmination of grievances and struggles of the world’s peasantry.
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