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
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