A/HRC/19/75 the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, should be better implemented; (d) The Human Rights Council should create a new special procedure to improve the promotion and protection of the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas; (e) The right to land should be recognized in international human rights law; (f) A new international human rights instrument on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas should be developed and adopted by the Human Rights Council. The declaration on the rights of peasants adopted by the Advisory Committee (see annex) could serve as a model. The new instrument to be developed by the Human Rights Council should recognize the rights enshrined in existing international instruments, to increase coherence and visibility. It should also recognize new rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, such as the rights to land, seeds and the means of production. The elaboration of this instrument by the Human Rights Council, with the full participation of peasant farmers, small landholders, landless workers, fisher-folk, hunters and gatherers and all other stakeholders, represents one of the best ways to overcome centuries of discrimination against the most vulnerable groups working in rural areas. 21

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