UNA PLATAFORMA PARA UNIR LAS LUCHAS POR TODOS LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS

• Anti-discrimination laws at national level

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  Human Rights Act

  Equality Act 2010

  Protected Characteristics are:

  • Age
  • Transsexuality
  • Sexual orientation and civil status
  • Being pregnant or maternity leave [gender]
  • Race including color, nationality, ethnic or national origin
  • Religion, belief or lack of religion/ belief
  • Sex

  Where you are protected:

  • At work
  • Education
  • Consumer
  • Public services
  • Buying/ renting property
  • clubs

   

  [1] http://www.legislationline.org/topics/country/53/topic/84

  [2] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/equality-act-2010-guidance

• To what extent are rural communities shrinking

  
  % of population living in rural areas Read more
  17%

• Are there Intellectual Property Rights on seeds?

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  Privatized varieties may be used to breed new ones.
• Laws protecting industrial seeds

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  Privatized Seeds

  • Can harvest them again on their own farm with restrictions
  • Can’t harvest and exchange them/ give them as a gift
  • Can’t sell them
  • Restriction of these seeds may be set by contract
  • Farmers can only buy certified, registered or catalogued seeds

   

  Difficult to access non industrial seeds

  • Using loopholes to force a law to change
  • Mainly in relation to the acquisition of cereals.
  • These loophole schemes→ they can license rather than sell seeds.
• Pesticide use by volume and by expenditure

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  Fungicides and Bactericides:5842.96

  Herbicides: 7676.52

  Insecticides: 716.54 

  There was a steep plunge in the usage of fungicides in 2005.

   

Participation is one of the fundamental human rights principles, requiring that everyone has the right to participate in making decisions that affect them. In order to ensure that those most affected by violations to the right to food and nutrition participate in political processes, it is essential to have the legal and policy infrastructure within national frameworks, as well as the participatory spaces that give meaningful space for participation.

• Legal Recognition of the Right to Food and Nutrition

  
  Is Right to Food recognized in the legal system Read more

  Does not explicitly guarantee the right to adequate food.
• National Food Security Policy

  
  Is there a national food security policy with implementation/action? Read more

  Food Security paper by the house of commons published in 2012. [1]

  State of British government on food security. Freer trade rather than subsidy for domestic production. 

   

  Strategy for Sustainable Farming and Food

   

   

  [1] https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-environment-f...