Briefing on Collective Rights
Policy Briefing on Collective rights in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other People Working in Rural Areas
Peasants, indigenous people, fisherfolk and nomads have long claimed that recognizing human rights exclusively as individual rights disregards the essential role that community relationships play in the management and use of communal resources, the protection of community members’ rights, as well as the preservation of the individual’s subjectivity and identity.