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[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

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From: Jonathan Latham <jrlatham@bioscienceresource.org>
Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 8:48 AM
Subject: [SANET-MG] Victory of the peasants’ movement in the struggle for
the recognition of their rights within the UN
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The brothers and sisters of Sanet have won a significant victory
Jonathan

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Subject: [Info EN] Victory of the peasants’ movement in the struggle for
the recognition of their rights within the UN Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2015
11:42:56 +0200 From: La Vía Campesina <via-info-en@viacampesina.org>
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Published on Tuesday, 06 October 2015 15:33 [image: 2015-10-06-
ONUgeneve.jpg]Press Release - La Via Campesina

(Geneva, October 5, 2015) On the afternoon of October 1st 2015, the United
Nations Human Rights Council adopted by majority a resolution where it
decides that the open-ended intergovernmental working group, with the
mandate to negotiate, finalize and submit to the Human Rights Council a
draft United Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other people
working in rural areas, shall continue the process for the next two years.

The resolution was presented by the governments of Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba
and South Africa and sponsored among others by Switzerland, Brazil, Eritrea
and Argentina, in a joint effort from all regions to support this decisive
step. In the final vote, the US government was the only one to vote
against. The governments of Europe have abstained from voting and have
continued with the same bloc-voting position as in June 2014, in the vote
on resolution 26/26. In total, 31 countries voted in favor, 15 abstained,
and only one voted against.*

La Via Campesina, an international movement which brings together more than
180 organizations from around the world and that represents approximately
200 million peasants, has together with FIAN and CETIM, taken a historic
momentum to this process by positioning for the first time within a UN
mechanism, a project intended to fill the gaps in human rights legislation
of the rural population and rural fishing communities, nomadic peoples,
pastoralists, rural workers, landless, rural women and indigenous peoples.
The current draft statement submitted by the government of Bolivia in
Geneva in February 2015 during the last working group, advocates for a
universal charter containing a set of rights in order to improve the
conditions of those who live in rural areas and produce 80% of the food in
the world.

In the days before the vote, leaders from all continents were present in
Geneva in order to alert governments about the growing conditions of
exclusion, land grabbing, repression and criminalization faced by peasants’
organizations and the devastating effects of agrochemicals on the health of
rural and peasant population. Meanwhile, national organizations supported
the work done in Geneva by carrying out lobbying activities in the capitals.

La Via Campesina and alliances redouble efforts to demonstrate that there
is no North-South division in the violations of the rights of the peasants’
population against the reluctance of many northern states to accept the
need for such a statement. La Via Campesina advocates for a model of
peasant agriculture in both the North and the Global South based on
agroecology and equal relations between peasants.

Finally, La Via Campesina wants to express its deep appreciation to the
Governments of Bolivia, South Africa, Cuba and Ecuador for their continuous
efforts within the Human Rights Council to carry out this initiative
emanating from the peasant movement, highlighting an example of good
governance, dialogue and involvement of farmers' organizations, civil
society and governments.
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**** Results of the vote on the resolution*

In favor (31): Algeria, Botswana, Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon,
Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sierra Leone,
Bangladesh, China, India,Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Pakistan, Saudi
Arabia, UAE, Vietnam, Argentina,Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, El Salvador, Paraguay
, Venezuela, Russia / Votes abstention (15): France, Germany, Ireland,
Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom, Macedonia, Montenegro, Latvia,
Estonia, Albania, Mexico, Qatar, Japan, Korea / negative Feedback(1):
United States



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