A/HRC/36/58 276. 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; 22

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