A/HRC/36/58 <The question to us is not only to “avoid und eliminate discrimination upon traditional knowledge” as mentioned at the end of point 3, but to protect it.> Paragraph 1 EU 1. Peasants and other people persons working in rural areas have the right to enjoy their own culture and to pursue freely their cultural development, without interference or any form of discrimination. They also have the right to maintain, express, control, protect and develop their traditional knowledge, such as ways of life, methods of production or technology, or customs and tradition. No one may invoke cultural rights to infringe upon the human rights guaranteed by international law, nor to limit their scope. Claeys, expert 1. Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to enjoy their own culture and to pursue freely their cultural development, without interference or any form of discrimination. They also have the right to maintain, express, control, protect and develop their traditional and local knowledge, such as ways of life, methods of production or technology, or customs and tradition. No one may invoke cultural rights to infringe upon the human rights guaranteed by international law, nor to limit their scope. Paragraph 2 EU 2. Peasants and other people persons working in rural areas, individually or collectively, have the right to express their local customs, languages, culture, religions, literature and art, in conformity with international human rights standards. Guatemala: reservation 2. Los campesinos y otras personas que trabajan en las zonas rurales tienen derecho [, a título individual y colectivo,] a expresar sus costumbres, idiomas, cultura, religiones, literatura y arte locales, de conformidad con las normas internacionales de derechos humanos. Chaudhry, expert 2. Peasants and other people working in rural areas, individually or collectively, have the right to express their local customs, languages, culture, religions, literature and art, in conformity with international human rights standards with respect to gender equality and non-discrimination. Paragraph 3 EU 3. States shall respect, and take measures to recognize and protect, the exercise of the above-mentioned rights, and eliminate discrimination against the traditional knowledge, practices and technologies of peasants and other people persons working in rural areas. Article 27. Responsibility of the United Nations and of other international organizations Paragraph 1 EU 1. The specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations system, and other intergovernmental organizations, including international and regional financial organizations, shall contribute to the full realization of the provisions of the present declaration, including through the mobilization of, inter alia, development assistance and cooperation. Ways and means of ensuring the participation of peasants and other people working in rural areas on issues affecting them shall be established. Guatemala: reservation 74

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