«Il n‘y a pas un monde développé et un monde sous-développé, mais un seul monde mal développé»
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Consultative Committee – 3rd session
03 – 07 August 2009
[Excerpt from the statement]
As the working document presented by Mr Jean Ziegler clearly shows, peasants have always been, and still are today, the first victims of violations of the right to food. Since the dawn of time, peasants have been driven off their land and their demands repressed by force. Every year, thousands of peasants are killed because they defend their rights to land, water, seeds or other means of production. For centuries, violations of peasants’ rights were perpetrated in the name of colonization’s civilizing mission. For decades, they have been perpetrated in the name of the market economy and neoliberal policies, for the benefit of transnational corporations.
