A/HRC/39/67 Article 24 EU 1. Peasants and other people persons working in rural areas have the right to adequate housing. They have the right to sustain a secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity, and the right to non-discrimination in this context. 2. Peasants and other people persons working in rural areas have the right to be protected against forced eviction from their home, harassment and other threats. 3. States shall not, either temporarily or permanently, remove peasants or other people persons working in rural areas against their will from the homes or land that they occupy without providing or affording access to appropriate forms of legal or other protection. When eviction is unavoidable, the State must provide or ensure fair and just compensation for any material or other losses. 4. In cases of eviction, States shall guarantee the right to resettlement of peasants and other people persons working in rural areas, in accordance with existing international human rights standards. This includes the right to alternative housing that satisfies the criteria for adequacy, namely, accessibility, affordability, habitability, security of tenure, cultural adequacy, suitability of location, and access to such essential rights as those to health, education and drinking water and sanitation. Article 25 EU 1. Peasants and other people persons working in rural areas have the right to adequate training suited to the specific agroecological, sociocultural and economic environments in which they find themselves. Issues covered by training programmes should include, but not be limited to, improving productivity, marketing, and the ability to cope with pests, pathogens, system shocks, the effects of chemicals, climate change and weather-related events. 2. All children of peasants and other people persons working in rural areas have the right to receive education in accordance with their culture, and with all the rights contained in human rights instruments, and to be free from child labour. 3. States shall encourage equitable and participatory farmer-scientist partnerships, such as farmer field schools, participatory plant breeding, and plant and animal health clinics to respond more appropriately to the immediate and emerging challenges that peasants and other people persons working in rural areas face. South Africa On Article 25.1, South Africa would like to strengthen the text to reflect that the right to education for peasants first and foremost as a basic human right be frontloaded in this Article, which will then be followed by education and training. On Article 25.2, South Africa proposes that the word “receive” be deleted and hence read as “the right to education”. ILO 1. Peasants and other people … weather-related events, as well as the development of non-agricultural livelihoods. 2. All children of peasants and other people working in rural areas have to right to receive quality education in accordance … 50

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