A/HRC/33/59 Brazil Article 2 4. Without disregarding specific legislation on indigenous peoples, in the development and implementation of legislation and policies and in other decision-making processes concerning the rights of peasants and other people working inrural areas, including international agreements, States shall obtain the free, prior and informed consent of peasants and other people working in rural areas, including throughtheir representative organizations. Article 3 3. Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to be free from any kind of discrimination and any incitement to discrimination in the exercise of their rights, individually or collectively, in particular to be free from discrimination based on grounds such us race, colour, descent, sex, gender, language, marital status, property, disability, nationality, age, political or other opinion, religion or economic, social, cultural and birth status, among others. Article 5 1. When applicable, peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to sovereignty over the natural resources present in their communities. In this case, they shall the authority to manage and control their natural resources and to enjoy the benefits of their development and conservation, and may have the right to decide whether to grant access to the natural resources in their communities, and to obtain fair and equitable participation in benefits arising from their utilization. Egypt Article 2 1. States shall respect, protect and fulfil the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, both in their territory and extraterritorially. They shall seek to take legislative, administrative and other appropriate steps to achieve progressively the full realization of the elements of the rights of the present declaration that cannot be immediately guaranteed. 2. States shall seek to transform the rights recognized in the present declaration into legal entitlements appropriate measures and secure their realization through accountability mechanisms. 3. Particular attention shall should be paid in the implementation of the present declaration to the rights and special needs of peasants and other people working in rural areas, namely, older persons, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities. 4. In the development and implementation of legislation and policies and in other decision-making processes concerning the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, including international agreements, States shall seek to obtain the free, prior and informed consent of peasants and other people working in rural areas, including through their representative organizations. 25

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