One More Step toward an International Convention on the Rights of Peasants

The Advisory Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council will present a final study on ways and means to further advance the rights of people working in rural areas in February 2012. The preliminary study is available here: This study stresses the urgent need to establish the human rights of peasants and agricultural workers, particularly when considering the context of global land-grabbing, privatization, and persecution of land activists. The study also mentions La Via Campesina’s Declaration on the Rights of Peasants (English), an important document that could be utilized to address the current lack of articulation of rights for rural workers in international human rights law.