In framework of permanent cooperation with United Nations’ bodies and agencies our Association send submission to UN Working Group on peasants for its thematic reports on global trends and challenges affecting people working in rural areas, including their right to equal participation, for UN Human Rights Council and General Assembly.
Our submission, published at the UN official web-sources now, stressed again that much more new war crimes were committed by the Russian troops in Ukraine, including destruction of objects of agriculture, civil infrastructure, forests, dams and other melioration systems by mines explosions, missiles and artillery.
Submission reminded the UN that Russian forces destroyed and looted the technical equipment of Ukrainian forestry and melioration management, destroyed thousands of square kilometers of plantations near the frontline, as well as natural soils in the combat zone close to the Crimea.
All these illegal Russia’s activities have a strong negative impact on the rights of the rural population of Russia-occupied areas, our submission reminded, adding that in a view of international law, such Russia’s illegal acts can be considered as terrorism also.
ARC’s submission reminded again about destruction the Kakhovka HPP by Russian troops, committed in 2023, and about system of fakes, disseminated by Russian central authorities, military structures, illegal “governments” in Crimea and Henichesk regarding this event, that caused catastrophic consequences for rural population of Russia-occupied south of Ukraine.
ARC’s submission reminded the UN Working Group that Russian aggression against Ukraine violates almost all articles of the UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, including the right to equal participation.
Submission stressed that Russia-controlled forces brutally violated right to life and to an adequate standard of living (Declaration’s article 3), right to land and territory (Declaration’s article 4), right to seeds, due to illegal confiscation and ban on usage Ukrainian sorts of seeds (Declaration’s article 5), right to means of agricultural production due to its destruction and confiscation (Declaration’s article 6).
Also such forces violated right to information due to misinformation and propaganda (Declaration’s article 7), freedom to determine price and market for agricultural production due to blockades, confiscation, “nationalization” and scams (Declaration’s article 8), right to biological diversity and to preserve the environment, due to Russia-committed ecocide in Ukraine’s rural areas (Declaration’s articles 10 and 11), and right to have access to justice (Declaration’s article 13).
Our cooperation with the UN Working Group on countering violation of the rights of Ukrainians, working in rural areas, will be continued.
