New paper of the PHRG Journal is out: When Civil Society Plants the Seeds of Normative Change - the Role of Non-state Actors in the Adoption of UNDROP

The University of Padova Human Rights Centre “A.Papisca” has published the first scientific article in the journal Peace Human Rights Governance (PHRG) 2025.

The article, titled “When Civil Society Plants the Seeds of Normative Change - the Role of Non-state Actors in the Adoption of UNDROP”, is written by  Alexandre Mortelette.

The study analyzes how civil society organizations contributed to the creation of the 2018 UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants (UNDROP), transforming the demands of rural communities into international legal norms through a participatory and iterative process.

PHRG is six-monthly and completely open access. It constitutes a new resource within the increasingly broad and multi-faceted scientific community engaged in the study of human rights, which aims to present original theoretical and empirical contributions on current human rights issues while fostering the development of a robust multi-disciplinary and multi-level approach to research and scholarly dissemination on these topics.

Here is the link to access the article: https://phrg.padovauniversitypress.it/2025/aof/8