A/HRC/33/59 Programme on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, South Asian Feminist Alliance for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Community Self-Reliance Centre Article 6 2. suggested adding: • States should address structural causes of poverty of rural women. States should demonstrate how their fiscal policies are pro rural women. • States should recognize rural women as individual right holders and not just as members of households or dependents of male breadwinners. Rural women should receive entitlements as individuals. • States should reduce and redistribute women’s unpaid work. To reduce women’s time burden, States should provide basic rights and services which include: housing, water, sanitation, education, health, fodder, institutionalized child care facilities, energy (including domestic energy for fuel and fodder) and better technology options. • States should ensure better infrastructure support for rural women’s needs to reduce the day-to-day drudgery of providing for themselves and their families. This should include access to markets (labour and goods), internal roads, and transport subsidies to support rural women’s mobility. • States should invest in awareness raising campaigns and promote equal sharing of care and unpaid work between men and women. C. Articles 13 to 18 Egypt Article 14 1. Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to access to, and prompt decision through, just and fair procedures for the resolution of disputes. States shall allow for non-discriminatory access, through impartial and competent judicial and administrative bodies, to timely, affordable and effective means of resolving disputes, and should provide effective remedies, which may include a right of appeal, as appropriate. Such remedies should be enforced promptly and may include restitution, indemnity, compensation and reparation. States shall respect and promote customary approaches and other alternative dispute resolution mechanisms used by peasants and other people working in rural areas to resolve conflicts in a manner that is consistent with human rights, and in conformity with laws in force. Article 15 2. States shall create an enabling environment with opportunities for work and that provides remuneration allowing for an adequate standard of living for peasants and other people working in rural areas and their families. In States facing high levels of rural poverty and in the absence of employment opportunities in other sectors, States shall establish and promote, as appropriate, food systems that are sufficiently labour-intensive to contribute to the creation of employment. 32

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