Land Rights Human RightsEkta Parishad Experience in the past 25 years

Shivani Bhardwaj 14.09.2014

Ekta Parishad’s GIS mapping in 30 villages with 7 NGOs

Voluntary FAO guidelines in context of GOI land reform policy is Ekta parishads monitoring tool to measure progress towards land reform in India

Apply a hand machine of Ekta Parishad to gather data on who tills, who reaps , who owns and who sells the land.

Understanding what communities are doing to retain their relationship with land through land march.

Interim finding : Civil society needs to connect with communities struggling with land sovereignty issues more stringently than before.

Statistics on land , climate change and sustainability are varied

Each ground experience throws a different kind of perspective .

Gandhian perspective is that people do not own land but they need to manage its sustainability for land to govern itself

People's Agreement of Cochabamba states that land is its sovereign entity.

Workers land rights are the same as the land owners human rights

Women land right recognized under CEDAW

State recognized

single women headed

households for housing and land grants.

Narmada Bai from

Bundelkhand married to a

Dalit forested 900 acres of

land. Got skilled to understand enough to ask

the Prime Minister for

Land reforms.

Right to resources are our human rights : Equality and equity is enshrined in most constitutions Rights come with the responsibility to build sustainable areas and these need to be planned and managed and to control land Ekta Parishad organizes Jai Jagat land marches to spread awareness towards “my land –my governance” and SAFP addresses local planning to reduce resource gaps.

resource gaps forms and levels

FORMS and levels OF RESOURCE GAPS

Governance and political control

for inclusion

Socio economic

transaction worth of electors

Quality of services from

Local Body and network for security

Socio economic transaction

worth in community

Emotional and economic

worth decides status of

women and men in

households

Access and control of

public space

Familial bonds and culture.

Individual space and can

impact personal

aspiration more

Knowledge and skill base for livelihood

and care Household

level Household

level

Neighborhood

level Neighborhood

level

District level

District level

State & National

level

State & National

level

Source: S.Bhardwaj Phd Thesis “Differential Resource Access : An exploratory study on gender gaps in Delhi”

Womens Access to Space 6% in Okhla

Okhla

Jamia

GRC

NGOs running women training centres

Religious and political meeting places

Source: Diagram by Equal saree http://equalsaree.tumblr.com

interrelation of GRG

Increase in wellness

and productivity

Secure

tenure and green econo

my

Services and mobili

ty

Space and

income

Income and

asset GRG

Services and

mobility GRG

Space GRG

Source: Shivani Bhardwaj Phd Thesis “Differential Resource Access : An exploratory study on gender gaps in Delhi”

Women centre as designed with Muslim women of Abul Fazal : Green buildings that cater to three gender roles

Source : Equal Saree : Masters Thesis project Ms Dafne Sadlana

Green Pilot in Okhla gender plan in HajiColony: Gender resource centre, Jamiahaat, rickshaw stand and night shelter

Source Equal Saree: Masters thesis of Laura Manford

Rural Woman resource zone designed in a sustainable development zone

Land Rights =Human rightshttp://www.ektaparishad.com/Portals/0/Jan%20Satyagraha%2020special%20edition

Homestead Right to stay on

fringes of forest and on government land have housing based on the year of occupation on the land for indigenous, Dalit's and land less

Land for food and cultural rights

EP impact on National land reform policy

Local area needs to be planned and claimed for sustainability

Law changes undemocratically to give control to those who are not residents of the land

Ekta Parishad strategies

Manifestos Work with

government and with communities

Work with movements across sectors and across regions

Lobby Law and policy reform Awareness for transfer

of land ( Jai Jagat 2020) Historical engagement

based on Gandhian principles.

Women and marginalized representation.

Towards indicators Context and perspective

Country, regional and International perspectives .

Link migration , security and workers rights

Indicators from ground based experiences

Peoples experiences and struggles to sustain a non violent movement that speaks from below.

Land Rights is the basis to access to food, housing and development, and without access to land economical insecurity increases

Land as Property

Security of tenure Buy sell and retain

property Poor can not enjoy the

above but since housing is linked to right to life, ensure right to housing and services for workers and their protection

Land as a social security and justice issue

CEDAW mentions livelihood and food rights ( art 15). Housing and land rights are also connected in the human rights approach to forced eviction. The General Comment No. 7

Human rights as part of land rights at each district and country plan

Right to Life and food

Art 11 of ICESCR–right to adequate standard of living including food. Sp Rapporteur Right to foods 11 principles to protect land tenure of farmers and local communities

Cultural rights and gender equality

Use gender resource gap as a basis of local area planning to ensure implementation of right to food, livelihood, work, shelter and ensuring sustainability of water and environment regeneration.

Make women groups Indigenous and excluded in charge of managing space for training, work placement, services and production near home.

Planning SCAN ….

Addressing the gap through Inclusive sustainable development zone planning

◦ A Women’s Resource Zone (WRZ) planned within the local area can fill GRG gap.

Source: Diagram by Equal saree http://equalsaree.tumblr.com

 How can ASEAN inter-governmental human rights commission set up by the ASEAN government take on land right as a human right  

Declarations In ASEAN’s intergovernmental

human right commission has two declarations: women and children; and right to education:

Advocate for declarations that defend countries’ political interests and includes space for workers at source transit and destination for better productivity, dignity and security.

Put ideas into action

Research to begin with base line

Organize & Educate Demand Demonstrate Replicate Set legal basis along

with for policy.

Awareness Jai Jagat Geneva-Tehran

Delhi to Tehran