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276. The European Union and Guatemala suggested replacing “food sovereignty” with
“adequate food” in the fifth and seventeenth preambular paragraphs. Chile preferred “food
security”. Mr. Esquinas suggested including a section on definitions in the draft declaration.
277. The Programme on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights suggested
including, in the ninth preambular paragraph, a reference to rural women, the lack of
infrastructure available to them and women’s burden of unpaid care.
278. The European Union and Guatemala suggested deleting “that support and are in
harmony with Mother Earth” from the twelfth preambular paragraph, to which the
Plurinational State of Bolivia was opposed.
279. The European Union and Guatemala suggested replacing “hazardous and
exploitative conditions” with “conditions that may be in some places hazardous” in the
thirteenth preambular paragraph. IUF and ILO recommended that “labourers” be replaced
with “workers” in the same preambular paragraph. ILO suggested inserting “denied the
opportunity to exercise their fundamental rights at work and” before “lacking living wages
and social protection”.
280. ILO recommended inserting “associations” after “groups” in the fourteenth
preambular paragraph.
281. The European Union suggested replacing the part of the paragraph starting from
“which include indigenous peasants” with “in exercising their right to self-determination,
have the right to autonomy or self-government in matters relating to their internal and local
affairs, as well as ways and means for financing their autonomous functions” in the
eighteenth preambular paragraph.
282. Argentina clarified that the second part of the eighteenth preambular paragraph was
a suggestion that it had made during the third session of the working group, keeping in
mind article 46 (1) of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
283. Guatemala reserved its position on the eighteenth preambular paragraph until the
question of the definition of “peasant” had been settled.
284. ILO suggested including a reference to the body of international labour standards of
particular relevance to the draft declaration, in particular the fundamental and priority ILO
conventions and the instruments concerned specifically with the rights and conditions of
people working in the rural economy and of indigenous and tribal peoples.
285. Guatemala expressed concern regarding the twenty-second and twenty-third
preambular paragraphs.
286. Representatives of several civil society organizations expressed support for the
preamble in its entirety.
VI. Conclusions and recommendations of the Chair-Rapporteur
A.
Conclusions
287. At the 9th and final meeting of its fourth session, held on 19 May 2017, the open
ended intergovernmental working group on a draft United Nations declaration on the
rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas adopted the following
conclusions, in accordance with its mandate as established by the Human Rights
Council in its resolution 30/13:
(a)
The working group took note of the message of FAO at the opening of
the session and of the participation of ILO;
(b)
The working group shared views on the revised draft declaration
prepared by the Chair-Rapporteur for consideration at the fourth session of the
working group and welcomed her efforts;
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