Newsletter - May 2017

NEWSLETTER - MAY 2017
One step closer to UN declaration

Intensive negotiations at the UN Human Rights Council concluded with deepened understanding of rural peoples’ rights and with the UN Intergovernmental Working Group gearing up for a 5th session.

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      Strong call by Treaty Alliance as UN process enters new phase
      Fighting big business interest in health governance
      Strong call by Treaty Alliance as UN process enters new phase
      Repression against social and political struggles escalate
      Seed corporatization threatens Paraguayan communities
      Human rights for people’s sovereignty
Strong call by Treaty Alliance as UN process enters new phase
With business self-regulation and corporate social responsibility schemes proving to be insufficient for addressing land grabbing-related human rights issues, a new publication points to the obligation of the EU and its Member States to implement a set of policy regulations.

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Fighting big business interest in health governance
The increasing corporate influence in global health governance is pointed out at the 70th World Health Assembly. Discussions on the health of the world’s populations kicked off amid concerns over the growing impact of the corporate sector on global policies.

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Strong call by Treaty Alliance as UN process enters new phase
To be successful, the next session should encourage constructive negotiations between States about concrete and detailed elements of the future treaty, so too for the establishment of a road map for their completion, says the Alliance in a recent statement.

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Repression against social and political struggles escalate
Under the pretext of "ensuring law and order", the fundamental rights of Brazilians are being violated. As a member of the Plataforma de Direitos Humanos Dhesca Brasil, FIAN Brazil denounces the intensification of repression of popular movement by the Brazilian State.

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Seed corporatization threatens Paraguayan communities
Documentary exposes corporate interests prioritized over people’s access to seeds and their right to food. For centuries, peasant and indigenous communities have saved and exchanged seeds, adapting them to local ecosystems and transmitting knowledge to younger generations. However, such seed-sharing practices are currently threatened by land-grabbing, environmental destruction, and genetically modified seeds. 

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Human rights for people’s sovereignty
The recent booklet by Rolf Künnemann, co-founder of FIAN International, takes the readers to the fundamentals of human rights and to the current conceptual debates and struggles about their future.

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