Global: La Via Campesina urges UN action on land grabs

In a letter submitted to the 8th session of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, Javier Sáchez Anso, a member of International Coordinating Committee (ICC) of La Via Campesina, urges the international community, including the development agencies and the United Nations, to make a significant policy shift toward the full integration of human rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas. 'This policy shift includes policies that prioritize the needs of the most vulnerable people working in rural areas. It includes improvements in the implementation of existing human rights instruments that protect the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas. We feel that the existing instruments are clearly insufficient to ensure the protection of our rights.'