Peasants' Right to Land: Addressing the Existing Implementation and Normative Gaps in International Human Rights Law
| Autor: | Denise González Núñez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Human Rights Law Review. 14:589-609 |
| ISSN: | 1744-1021 1461-7781 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/hrlr/ngu027 |
| Popis: | Peasants, like other human beings, are entitled to the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights treaties that have been ratified by their states. These instruments protect a series of claims that theoretically should be enough to ensure them a dignified existence. However, their situation worldwide is generally characterised by poverty, which in many cases is rooted in human factors. Examples of these are expropriations and forced evictions, in which commonly both state and non-state actors participate. In fact, millions of people every year are forcibly evicted from their lands due to development projects, a reality that proves the exist- ence of implementation gaps and normative gaps in international human rights law. This article seeks to explain the importance of protecting peasants, analyse the gaps that operate as regards the rights to food and property and, finally, argue that recognis- ing and consolidating peasants' international human right to land would contribute to address these gaps. KEYWORDS : peasants, land rights, right to land, right to food, right to property, forced evictions, Delcaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas |
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