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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.
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