This joint submission was developed with the Umzimvubu Farmers Support Network on the occasion of the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights periodic review of South Africa's implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights from September-October 2018.
In this submission, the HRDP and Uzimvubu Farmers Support Network map out key tensions between South Africa's current national policy on the use of glyphosate to eradicate cannabis alongside the country's developing medicinal cannabis legislation and the full and effective realisation of economic, social and cultural rights.submission was developed with the Umzimvubu Farmers Support Network on the occasion of the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights periodic review of South Africa's implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights from September-October 2018.
Following the submission, the Committee engaged with the South African delegation on the question of aerial spraying in the Mpondoland region and the government's plans to supporting poor farmer's access to the emerging licit cannabis market in the country.
Concluding observations from the Committee call for an end to aerial fumigation.
Interactive dialogue summary available here: https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23683&LangID=E
Concluding observations available here: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/TBSearch.aspx?Lang=en&TreatyID=9&DocTypeID=5