A/HRC/36/58 Paragraph 2 EU 2. States shall take appropriate measures to eliminate conditions that cause or help to perpetuate discrimination against peasants and people persons working in rural areas. Chaudhry, expert 2. States shall take appropriate measures to eliminate conditions that cause or help to perpetuate discrimination against peasants and people working in rural areas. States should also take measures to investigate crimes of discrimination against peasants and other people working in rural areas and bring the perpetrators to justice. Article 4. Rights of peasant women and other women working in rural areas Chaudhry, expert Article 4. Rights of peasant women and other women working and living in rural areas CSCR-PWESCR, comment < We call on this Working Group to recognise rural women as individual rights holders and not just as victims of violence and not just as vulnerable group that needs to be protected and taken care of. Recognise the role women play in providing care – child care, elderly care. States should invest in institutionalise care facilities also in rural areas. Inclusion of access to scientific and technical knowledge in the draft declaration. We also would like the declaration to address the digital gap that rural community face especially rural women.> Paragraph 1 Chaudhry, expert 1. States shall take all appropriate measures, including through implementing and revising laws, to eliminate all forms of discrimination against rural peasant women and other women working and living in rural areas in order to ensure, on the basis of equality between men and women, that they fully and equally enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms and that they are able to freely pursue, participate in and benefit from rural economic, social, political and cultural development. Paragraph 2 Subparagraph (a) EU: additional subparagraph Subpara (a) (bis) To purchase and dispose land on their own. They shall also be able to inherit land. Switzerland (a) To participate meaningfully, equally and effectively in the formulation and implementation of gender-responsive development planning at all levels; Chaudhry, expert (a) To participate meaningfully in governance, including in the formulation and implementation of development planning at all levels; Subparagraph (b) EU (b) To have access to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including to adequate health-care facilities, including information, counselling and services in family planning; Guatemala: reservation 39

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