Newsletter - April 2017

NEWSLETTER - APRIL 2017
The right to decent conditions

On the occasion of Workers’ Day, the current issue of the series “30 Years Supporting the Struggles for the Right to Food and Nutrition” looked into the gaps across the formal and informal sectors that prevent millions of female and male workers from enjoying basic rights and protections.

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      Time to change Europe’s land policy
      The rights of future generations
      Global peasant struggle rallies popular support
      Ecuadorian indigenous and peasant realities land in Europe
Time to change Europe’s land policy
The path to fairer land governance in Europe reached a milestone in April, as the European Parliament approved an own initiative report that recognizes the urgent problems of land concentration, and access to land in the EU and demands for adequate responses.

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The rights of future generations
The Iroquois Confederacy’s Great Law of Peace, the oldest constitution in the world, is based on the Seventh Generation Principle whereby the decisions leaders should take into account seven generations into the future. Today’s dominant policies, however, disregard this rationale and are leading to the destruction of nature. In other words, current practices are eroding the human rights of those who are not yet here, including their right to food. April’s issue explored the right of future generations to live off a sustainable world that is not compromised by present actions and policies.

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Global peasant struggle rallies popular support
Celebrating the International Day of Peasant’s Struggle, this 17th of April, a large coalition for peasants’ rights appealed for people’s support as negotiations for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas draw near.

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Ecuadorian indigenous and peasant realities land in Europe
Weeks before the Universal Periodic Review, a delegation from Ecuador came to Europe to give an account of the human right to adequate food and nutrition of peasant and indigenous communities in the country.

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