A/HRC/19/75 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 24 February 2012 Original: English Human Rights Council Nineteenth session Agenda item 5 Human rights bodies and mechanisms Final study of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee on the advancement of the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas* ** Summary In the present study, undertaken pursuant to Hunan Rights Council resolution 16/27, the Advisory Committee focuses on the rights of the most vulnerable people working in rural areas, in particular on those of smallholder farmers, landless workers, fisher-folk, hunters and gatherers. The Committee recommends that the Human Rights Council create a new special procedure to improve the promotion and protection of the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, and develop a new international human rights instrument on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas. The declaration on the rights of peasants adopted by the Advisory Committee, annexed to the present study, could serve as a model. * ** GE.12-10803 The annex to the present report is circulated as received, in the language of submission only. Late submission.