A/HRC/39/67 South Africa South Africa is also supportive of including those also living in rural areas considering the Declaration’s reference to older persons and children. In this regard, in addition to those dependent family members of peasants to also include “rural households”. Brazil Add “traditional communities” in Article 1, paragraph 3. Jordan Article 1.4: deletion of “regardless of their legal status.” Ecuador Proposed adding “local communities” after “indigenous peoples” in paragraph 3. ILO While supporting Brazil and Switzerland’s proposal to include a reference to traditional communities in paragraph 4, we recommend retaining the rest of the paragraph as originally drafted. American Anthropology Association I’ll end by asking that you note what I think is a typographical error. The last word of paragraph 1 ought to be the singular “land” not the plural “lands”. CSRC Para. 1: last sentence — land, forest and water or land and natural resource (not only land, forest and water as well). Para. 2: Request you to include sharecroppers and tenants in the definition of peasants. Para. 2: Instead of any person, any women and men, in South Asia farmer, means Kishan which only denotes men and not women Para. 3: together with Indigenous people add the group dalits which are marginalized groups in South Asia especially in Nepal and India Article 2 Japan 1. States shall respect, protect and fulfil the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas. They may shall promptly take legislative, administrative and other appropriate steps to achieve progressively the full realization of the rights of the present declaration that cannot be immediately guaranteed. EU 1. States shall respect, protect and fulfil the rights of peasants and other people persons working in rural areas. They shall promptly take legislative, administrative and other appropriate steps to achieve progressively the full realization of the rights of the present declaration that cannot be immediately guaranteed. 2. Particular attention shall be paid in the implementation of the present declaration to the rights and special needs of peasants and other people persons working in rural areas, including older persons, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities, taking into account the need to address multiple forms of discrimination. 3. Without disregarding specific legislation on indigenous peoples, before adopting and implementing legislation and policies, international agreements and other decision-making 27