A PLATFORM TO UNIFY STRUGGLES FOR ALL HUMAN RIGHTS

This article features a preliminary assessment of the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (the Tenure Guidelines or TGs) from the perspective of social movements. It argues that the TGs are increasingly becoming a tool for social movements across the world to demand peoples' sovereignty over natural resources and social justice from governments. The publication of a People's Manual on the use of the Tenure Guidelines by social movements themselves is a positive example of how the TGs have enlarged the space of small-scale food producer organizations to jointly act.