A/HRC/36/58 Chaudhry, expert PP24. Convinced of the need for greater protection of the human rights of peasants and other people working and living in rural areas, and for a coherent interpretation and application of existing international human rights norms and standards in this matter, Preambular paragraph 25: EU PP25. Solemnly adopts the following declaration on the rights of peasants and other people persons working in rural areas: Article 1. Definition of peasants and other people working in rural areas RIDH, comment: 1. <La definición que se adopte de lo campesino deberá incluir otros sectores y actividades sociales y económicas que se desarrollan en lo rural, como son “los pobladores rurales” que no son considerados en algunos países industrializados como campesinos en el estricto sentido de la palabra; estos pobladores rurales mantienen relaciones sociales, culturales, familiares y comunitarias con los campesinos, que son necesarias para su supervivencia.> Paragraph 1 Guatemala: reservation to the whole article and the parts indicated in brackets 1. A los efectos de la presente Declaración, “campesino” es toda persona que se dedique o pretenda dedicarse, ya sea de manera individual o en asociación con otras o como comunidad, a la producción agrícola en pequeña escala para subsistir o comerciar y que para ello dependa, sobre todo, aunque no necesariamente en exclusiva, del trabajo en familia o en el hogar y de otras formas no monetarias de organización del trabajo, y que tenga una especial dependencia [y apego a sus] tierras. ILO 1. For the purposes of the present declaration, a peasant is any person who engages or who seeks to engage alone, or in association with others or as a community, in small-scale agricultural production for subsistence and/or for the market, and who relies significantly, though not necessarily exclusively, on family or household labour – including of his or her children – and other non-monetized ways of organizing labour, and who has a special dependency on and attachment to the lands. Paragraph 2 Chaudhry, expert 2. The present declaration applies to any person engaged in artisanal or small-scale agriculture, the raising of livestock, pastoralism, fishing, forestry, hunting or gathering, and handicrafts related to agriculture or a related occupation in a rural area. Paragraph 3 Guatemala: reservation 3. [La presente Declaración se aplica también a los pueblos indígenas que trabajan la tierra, a las comunidades trashumantes y nómadas y a las personas sin tierra.] Colombia (report, para. 52) 3. {The present declaration also applies to indigenous peoples working on the land, transhumant and nomadic communities and the landless.} PWESCR (report, para. 52) 3. The present declaration also applies to indigenous peoples working on the land, transhumant and nomadic communities, Dalits, and the landless. 33

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