A/HRC/39/67 IUF Para. 2 Text from the 4As produced by former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, Katarina Tomasevski Delete: “, in accordance with their culture,” to read: Insert: “which is free of discrimination, relevant and culturally appropriate” Article 26 EU 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. 2. Peasants and other people persons working in rural areas have the right, individually and collectively, in association with others or as a community, to express their local customs, languages, culture, religions, literature and art, in conformity with international human rights standards. 3. States shall respect, and take measures to recognize and protect, the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas relating to their traditional knowledge, and eliminate discrimination against the traditional knowledge, practices and technologies of peasants and other people working in rural areas. 4. States shall take measures, as appropriate, to ensure that the prior informed consent or approval and involvement of peasants and other people working in rural areas is obtained for access to genetic resources where they have the established right to grant access to such resources. Argentina Sobre Derechos culturales y conocimiento tradicional: se destaca que en el ámbito de la Organización Mundial de la Propiedad Intelectual (OMPI), especialmente en el Comité Intergubernamental sobre Propiedad Intelectual y Recursos Genéticos, Conocimientos Tradicionales y Folclore, se están desarrollando negociaciones para generar uno o varios instrumentos internacionales que tienden a asegurar la protección eficaz y equilibrada de los recursos genéticos (RR.GG.), los conocimientos tradicionales (CC.TT.) y las expresiones culturales tradicionales (ECT). Todos estos temas, en especial los referidos a los recursos genéticos, deberían abordarse en el ámbito específico de la OMPI. Japan 4. States may shall take measures, as appropriate, to ensure that the prior informed consent or approval and involvement of peasants and other people working in rural areas is obtained for access to genetic resources where they have the established right to grant access to such resources. South Africa 4. South Africa propose that cardinal principle full notion of Free, Prior and Informed Consent be incorporated in its entirety South Africa proposes language that will acknowledge traditional knowledge systems as intellectual property of rural communities and should be protected as such 51