1st anniversary of the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas by the UN General Assembly on 17 December 2018

UNDROP 1st Anniversary statement The need to take steps to implement the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas 17 December 2019 The following joint statement has been made by a group of United Nations human rights experts* to mark the 1st anniversary…

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Letter to Brazil regarding proposal to weaken protections from pesticides

Joint letter by the mandates of Special Rapporteurs on Toxics, Food, Environment, Health and Water & Sanitation. Concerns raised to the Government of Brazil concerning the Project of Law (PL),6.299/2002 which amends Law No. 7.802 of 11 July 1989, which would significantly weaken the criteria for approving the experimental and…

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Pesticides are “global human rights concern”, say UN experts urging new treaty

GENEVA (7 March 2017) – Two United Nations experts are calling for a comprehensive new global treaty to regulate and phase out the use of dangerous pesticides in farming, and move towards sustainable agricultural practices. They say: “excessive use of pesticides are very dangerous to human health, to the environment…

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Statement to 33rd Session of UN Human Rights Council

  Statement of the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes at the 33rd session of the UN Human Rights Council 15 September 2016   Excellencies, distinguished delegates, friends and colleagues: I am pleased to present my…

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Urgent Global Action Necessary to Reduce Human Rights Impacts of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs)

A Statement from the UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Food and the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Hazardous Substances and Waste Delivered at Fourth Session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM4) Geneva, Switzerland — 28 September-2 October 2015 Highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) continue to have detrimental…

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