FN’s Menneskerettighedsråd vil påbegynde arbejdet med at udforme rettigheder for småbønder, selv om flere vestlige lande har stemt imod en erklæring, som skal bistå dem mod diskrimination, forfølgelse og undertrykkelse.
Det skriver FIAN International torsdag.
GENEVE, October 4, 2012: Despite the negative votes of 8 European Union member states and the US, the Human Rights Council approved the creation of an open-ended inter-governmental working group to prepare a draft declaration on the human rights of peasants and other people living in rural areas, writes FIAN INternational on their homepage.
“Taking into consideration all the preparatory advocacy work and the final votes, the council’s decision is a real step forward,” said Ana María Suarez Franco, permanent representative of FIAN International in Geneva “We call upon the EU and the US to revise their position and to constructively support the further process. Social movements and civil society will have to work hard and join forces in order to achieve a declaration on peasants’ rights approved by the United Nations,” she added.
In its resolution, the Council expressed concern “that hunger, like poverty, is still predominantly a rural problem, and that in the rural population, it is those who produce food who suffer disproportionately,” and alarm “that 80 per cent of people suffering from hunger live in rural areas, in particular in developing countries, and 50 per cent are small-scale and traditional farm holders, and that these people are especially vulnerable to food insecurity, discrimination and exploitation.
Initially sponsored by Bolivia, Ecuador and South Africa, the resolution was supported by 23 countries. These countries showed their willingness to maintain the protection of peasants’ human rights in the international agenda, as a response to the structural causes of hunger and malnutrition of those who feed the world.
The cooperation of these states towards advances in international law for the protection of peasants reflects the hard work of La Via Campesina, FIAN International, CETIM and others in lobbying at the international level in order to present the reality of small farmers, pastoralists, fishers, and other grass root constituencies on the public agenda.
An eventual declaration on the rights of peasants could help to address the specific discrimination, exclusion and repression which hundreds of millions of peasants are suffering. One group which could be helped by this new protection instrument is the peasant communities in the Bajo Aguan, Honduras. Claiming their specific rights as peasants, they have suffered repression and attack. In the last three years, 54 organized peasants and human rights defenders have been killed in the context of the agrarian conflict.
Læs her: http://www.fian.org/news/press-releases/despite-eu-us-resistance-hr-council-advances-towards-recognition-of-peasants2019-rights
