Ensuring Human Rights in Land Relations: Socio-Economic and Legal Principles

Abstract

The opening of the free land market and the expansion of its purchase and sale in the current conditions of development of Ukrainian society and the state is an extremely relevant topic and requires appropriate scientific study from the standpoint of human rights. Therefore, the authors aimed to analyse international legal documents in the field of regulation of protection of peasants' rights to land and proposed scientifically sound proposals to improve the relevant processes in Ukraine. The work with the use of general and special methods of scientific knowledge (dialectical, formal-logical, systematic, historical-legal and comparative analysis) considers the legal framework and international approaches to protect the rights of peasants to land in the context of clarifying and summarizing the basic provisions of human rights documents. especially the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other Persons Working in Rural Areas, adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 2018. The analysis showed that a number of other rights enshrined in the Declaration are mutually reinforcing and necessary for the protection of land rights, including the right to participate, the right to information and access to justice. As a result of the study, proposals were developed for Ukraine to fulfill its obligations as a member of the UN and a member state of the UN Human Rights Council in the field of protection of land rights of peasants. All branches of government in Ukraine, including the executive, legislature and judiciary, should be involved in the implementation of the Declaration by creating new mechanisms for human rights practices in land regulation and a system for monitoring the rights of peasants in the free land market at national and local levels