In October 2023, the Human Rights Council created the Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, composed of 5 independent experts. The Working Group started its activities in May 2024. The Working Group is mandated to promote the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) adopted in 2018, to identify gaps in its implementation, to disseminate good practices, to facilitate exchanges and international cooperation, and to report to the Human Rights Council and to the General Assembly. The Working Group is mandated to collaborate with States, UNDROP’s rights holders and their representative organizations, specialized agencies, funds, programmes, bodies and organizations of the UN system, international, regional and national human rights mechanisms, international and regional organizations, civil society and academia. The Working Group can act as a catalyst for UNDROP, by providing visibility and support to advance the promotion and protection of the rights enshrined in the Declaration, by clarifying the implications of the Declaration, by identifying key challenges, and by recommending concrete measures to be adopted by States and other actors. The Working Group and all actors engaged in UNDROP’s implementation should guarantee the right of peasants and other people working in rural areas to active and free participation in all decision-making processes that may affect their lives, land, other natural resources and livelihoods, enshrined in UNDROP’s article 10. There will be no implementation nor monitoring of UNDROP without the full participation of peasants and other people working in rural areas.