En 2016, le Défenseur des droits a conduit une enquête statistique, intitulée Accès aux droits (AAD) auprès d’un échantillon de 5 117 personnes représentatif de la population française en termes d’âge, de sexe, de catégories professionnelles et de niveau de diplôme. Dans un contexte où la problématique des discriminations et des difficultés d’accès aux services publics et d’accès aux droits redeviennent d’actualité, l’ensemble de ces productions permet d’établir un nouveau portrait des inégalités perçues et vécues en France métropolitaine et d’identifier les populations pour lesquelles il est urgent de s’adresser pour favoriser un recours effectif au(x) droit(s). Enfin, cet ouvrage collectif réunit l’ensemble des travaux réalisés par les équipes du Défenseur des droits et des analyses originales établies par des chercheurs spécialisés sur ces enjeux à partir des données de l’enquête.

Ce deuxième tome rassemble les travaux qui ont été réalisés dès 2017 à partir de cette enquête par les équipes du Défenseur des droits. Il donne à voir, de façon descriptive, les résultats marquants de l’enquête, pour chacun des différents champs de compétence du Défenseur des droits. Il contribue à identifier les publics auxquels il est nécessaire de s’adresser pour favoriser le recours effectif aux droits. Il s’organise autour de cinq chapitres.

In recent decades, the various strands of the food movement have made enormous strides in calling attention the many shortcomings and injustices of our food and agricultural system. Farmers, activists, scholars, and everyday citizens have also worked creatively to rebuild local food economies, advocate for food justice, and promote more sustainable, agroecological farming practices. However, the movement for fairer, healthier, and more autonomous food is continually blocked by one obstacle: land access. As long as land remains unaffordable and inaccessible to most people, we cannot truly transform the food system. The term land-grabbing is most commonly used to refer to the large-scale acquisition of agricultural land in Asian, African, or Latin American countries by foreign investors. However, land has and continues to be “grabbed” in North America, as well, through discrimination, real estate speculation, gentrification, financialization, extractive energy production, and tourism. This edited volume, with chapters from a wide range of activists and scholars, explores the history of land theft, dispossession, and consolidation in the United States. It also looks at alternative ways forward toward democratized, land justice, based on redistributive policies and cooperative ownership models. With prefaces from leaders in the food justice and family farming movements, the book opens with a look at the legacies of white-settler colonialism in the southwestern United States. From there, it moves into a collectively-authored section on Black Agrarianism, which details the long history of land dispossession among Black farmers in the southeastern US, as well as the creative acts of resistance they have used to acquire land and collectively farm it. The next section, on gender, explores structural and cultural discrimination against women landowners in the Midwest and also role of “womanism” in land-based struggles. Next, a section on the cross-border implications of land enclosures and consolidations includes a consideration of what land justice could mean for farm workers in the US, followed by an essay on the challenges facing young and aspiring farmers. Finally, the book explores the urban dimensions of land justice and their implications for locally-autonomous food systems, and lessons from previous struggles for democratized land access. Ultimately, the book makes the case that to move forward to a more equitable, just, sustainable, and sovereign agriculture system, the various strands of the food movement must come together for land justice.

In Indian context.

The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: A socio-legal perspectiveby Thoko Kaime2009ISBN: 978-0-9814420-4-4Pages: xii 247Print version: AvailableElectronic version: Free PDF available.