The UN Declaration on Peasant Rights is a massive victory for humanity!
18 Dec 2018

The Global Forest Coalition celebrates the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas. On 17 December 2018, the United Nations General Assembly in New York approved the UN Declaration with 121 votes by member states in favour, 54 abstentions, and 8 against. We congratulate the almost two decades of work put in by our comrades in social movements and organisations like Via Campesina, Indonesian Peasant Union (SPI), FIAN, CETIM …