Towards new human rights for peasants. Progresses made, challenges forward

Date de début:

15 Octobre 2015 - 15:00

Type d'événement:

Séminaire

Publié ici :

23 Septembre 2015

Mis à jour le :

22 Juin 2017

Mots-clefs:

paysans
agriculture
Droits
droits humains
Déclaration des droits des paysans

Zone géographique:

Asie

Talk by Dr. Priscilla Claeys (IFP / University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium)

This contribution explores some of the challenges underlying the recognition of new human rights for peasants. It focuses on negotiations under way at the United Nations Human Rights Council to draft a Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other people in rural areas. This process, initiated by the contemporary transnational agrarian movement La Via Campesina, could lead to the proclamation of new human rights for rural people, such as the right to land and territory, the right to seeds, the right to biodiversity and the right to fair and remunerative prices.

This case study is highly relevant because it demonstrates the ability of social movements to create legal opportunities and to be makers of law. It also emphasizes the contribution of peasant movements to the emergence of an alternative conception of human rights that is less western, less individualizing, and less statist. The presentation will address key questions such as: How do human rights claims emerge from the grassroots? How do they travel up? Why do some social groups succeed in getting new rights recognized? How do movements succeed in creating or seizing legal opportunities and which kinds of coalitions are needed? The contribution will also discuss some of the challenges that social movements face when framing their demands in human rights terms, and notably the costs of institutionalizing human rights claims.

see: http://www.ifpindia.org/claeys-p

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