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4.
Peasants have the right to adequate, healthy, nutritious, and affordable food, and to
maintain their traditional food cultures.
5.
Peasants have the right to consume their own agricultural production and to use this
to satisfy their families’ basic needs, and the right to distribute their agriculture production
to other people.
6.
Peasants have the right to safe drinking water, sanitation, means of transportation,
electricity, communication and leisure.
7.
Peasants have the right to adequate housing and clothing.
8.
Peasants have the right to education and training.
9.
Peasants have the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental
health. They have the right to have access to health services and medicine, even when they
live in remote areas. They also have the right to use and develop traditional medicine.
10.
Peasants have the right to live a healthy life, and not be affected by the
contamination of agrochemicals, such as chemical pesticides and fertilisers.
11.
Peasant women have the right to be protected from domestic violence, physical,
sexual, verbal and psychological.
12.
Peasant women have the right to control their own bodies and to reject the use of
their bodies for commercial purposes.
13.
Peasants have the right to decide about the number of children they want to have,
and about the contraceptive methods they want to use.
14.
Peasants have the right to the full realization of their sexual and reproductive rights.
Article 4
Right to land and territory
1.
Peasants have the right to own land, individually or collectively, for their housing
and farming.
2.
Peasants and their families have the right to toil on their own land, and to produce
agricultural products, to rear livestock, to hunt and gather, and to fish in their territories.
3.
Peasants have the right to toil and own unused land on which they depend for their
livelihood.
4.
Peasants have the right to manage, conserve, and benefit from the forests and fishing
grounds.
5.
Peasants have the right to security of tenure and not to be forcibly evicted from their
lands and territories. No relocation should take place without free, prior and informed
consent of the peasants concerned and after agreement on just and fair compensation and,
where possible, with the option of return.
6.
Peasants have the right to benefit from land reform. Latifundia must not be allowed.
Land has to fulfil its social function. Land ceilings to land ownership should be introduced
whenever necessary in order to ensure an equitable access to land.
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