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Recalling also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and all other
relevant human rights instruments,
Recalling further Human Rights Council resolutions 13/4 of 24 March 2010, 16/27
of 25 March 2011 and 19/7 of 22 March 2012 on the right to food, and in particular Council
resolutions 21/19 of 27 September 2012, 26/26 of 27 June 2014 and 30/13 of 1 October
2015 on the promotion and protection of the human rights of peasants and other people
working in rural areas,
Underlining the imperative need to achieve the unfinished agenda of the Millennium
Development Goals in order to contribute to making the right to development a reality for
everyone, and welcoming the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
Welcoming General Assembly resolution 66/222 of 22 December 2011, in which the
Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming, and welcoming also its
resolution 68/232 of 20 December 2013, in which the Assembly declared 2015 the
International Year of Soils, and its resolution 68/231 of 20 December 2013, in which it
declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses,
Taking note of general recommendation No. 34 (2016) on the rights of rural women,
adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in March
2016,
Recognizing the important contribution of peasants and other people working in
rural areas to the fight against hunger and the preservation and improvement of biodiversity,
among others, and the need to respect, promote, protect and fulfil their human rights,
Gravely concerned that hunger, like poverty, is still predominantly a rural problem,
and that in the rural population it is those who produce food who suffer disproportionately,
and alarmed that 75 per cent of people suffering from hunger live in rural areas, particularly
in developing countries, and 50 per cent are small-scale and traditional farm holders, as
well as subsistence farmers, and that they are especially vulnerable to food insecurity,
malnutrition, discrimination and exploitation,
Recognizing that livelihoods in rural areas are disproportionately affected by poverty,
climate change, lack of development and lack of access to scientific progress,
Recognizing also that peasants and other people working in rural areas are often
disproportionally affected by the adverse impact of business activities,
Convinced of the need to strengthen the protection and realization of the human
rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas,
Welcoming the reports of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on a
United Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas
on its third and fourth sessions,51 held from 17 to 20 May 2016, and from 15 to 19 May
2017, respectively, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 21/19, 26/26 and 30/13,
and welcoming the constructive negotiation, broad participation and active engagement of
Governments, regional and political groups, civil society, experts, international
organizations and intergovernmental organizations and relevant stakeholders, particularly
representatives of peasants and other people working in rural areas,
Bearing in mind the development of this issue,
1.
Decides that the open-ended intergovernmental working group on a United
Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas shall
hold its fifth annual session for five working days before the thirty-eighth session of the
Human Rights Council, in accordance with its mandate, to negotiate, finalize and submit to
the Council a draft United Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other people
working in rural areas;
2.
Also decides that the updated version of the draft declaration that will be
presented by the Chair-Rapporteur of the working group at its fifth session, taking into
consideration the report of the Chair-Rapporteur on the fourth session, and the version of
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