Popular Sources

The popular sources contained in the Landpedia Library are those statements, declarations and other documents produced by expert commentators, communities, social movements and peoples claiming land rights, including explicit claims to land and equitable land access as a human right. Those claims may be either grounded in law and derived from currently codified rights, or may be based on moral and ethical arguments.

• HIC-HLRN Middle East/North Africa, A New Dawn in Our Region: Revolution against Tyranny and Corruption, for Restoring the Rights and Freedoms (2011)

• Global farmers organizations, NGOs, religious organizations, unions and other social movements, Dakar Appeal against Land Grabbing (2011)

• Conferencia Mundial de los Pueblos sobre el Cambio Climático y los Derechos de la Madre Tierra, Acuerdo de los Pueblos de Cochabamba(2010)

• Mouvements sociaux urbains mondials, Les mouvements sociaux urbains construise la convergence au Forum Social Mondial(2009)

• Global urban social movements, Urban Movements Building Convergences at the World Social Forum (2009)

• Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Forum Parallel to World Summit on Food Security, Food Sovereignty now: young people creating their future (2009)

• Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Forum Parallel to World Summit on Food Security,"Déclaration du forum des mouvements sociaux, ONG et organisations de la société civile en parallèle au Sommet de la FAO sur la sécurité alimentaire" (2009)

• Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Forum Parallel to World Summit on Food Security, Declaration from Social Movements/NGOs/CSOs Parallel Forum to the World Summit on Food Security (2009)

• CSO, Forum Parallel to World Summit on Food Security, Declaration of Indigenous Peoples for Food Sovereignty (2009)

• Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Forum Parallel to World Summit on Food Security, Synthese des Travaux de l'assemble des femmes du Forum sur la Souverainete Alimentaire (2009)

• Gujarat pastoralists, Charter on Climate Crisis (2009)

• La Via Campesina, Declaration of Rights of Peasants ‐ Women and Men(2008)

• خبراء حقوق الإنسان الدوليين, مبادئ يوغياكارتا حول تطبيق القانون الدولي لحقوق الإنسان في ما يتعلق بالتوجه الجنسي وهوية النوع (2007)

• Global human rights experts, The Yogyakarta Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (2007)

• Global civil society, Declaration of Nyéléni (2007)

• Global civil society, Final Declaration: "Land, Territory and Dignity" Forum (2006)

• Mouvements sociaux urbains mondials, Charte Mondiale du Droit à la Ville (2005)

• Global urban social movements, World Charter for the Right to the City {2005}

• FAO, "Voluntary Guidelines to support the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in the context of national food security" (2004)

• World Women’s Forum in the Context of the World Cultural Forum, Charter for Women’s Right to the City (2004)

• World Social Forum, Call of Social Movements (2002)

• Tamil Nadu Environment Council and Social Action Movement, Dindigul Declaration (2002)

• World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, NGO Forum Declaration and Programme of Action (2001)

• UNESCAP Seminar on Securing Land for the Urban Poor, The Fukuoka Declaration (2001)

• The Latin American Secretariat for Popular Housing (SELVIP), For Just and Democratic Cities (2000)

• Urban 21 Conference , Berlin Declaration on the Urban Future (2000)

• NGO Forum, UN Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women (1995)

• الحركة الفلسطينية لحقوق السكن, غعلان القدس (1995)

• The Palestine Housing Rights Movement, The Jerusalem Declaration (1995)

• Council of Europe's Standing Conference of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe, European Urban Charter I: The European Declaration of Urban Rights (1992)

• HIC, Limuru Declaration (1987)

• FAO,"The Peasants' Charter:The Declaration of Principles and Programme of Action of the World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development" (1981)