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processes that may affect the rights of peasants and other people persons working in rural
areas, States shall should consult and cooperate in good faith with peasants and other
people persons working in rural areas through their own representative institutions,
engaging with and seeking the support of peasants and other people persons working in
rural areas who could be affected by decisions before those decisions are made, and
responding to their contributions, taking into consideration existing power imbalances
between different parties and ensuring active, free, effective, meaningful and informed
participation of individuals and groups in associated decision-making processes.
5.
States shall take all necessary measures to prevent ensure non-State actors that they
are in a position to regulate, such as private individuals and organizations, and transnational
corporations and other business enterprises, from nullifying or impairing the enjoyment of
the rights of peasants and other people persons working in rural areas.
6.
States, recognizing the importance of international cooperation in support of national
efforts for the realization of the purposes and objectives of the present declaration, shall
take appropriate and effective measures in this regard, between and among States and, as
appropriate, in partnership with relevant international and regional organizations and civil
society, in particular organizations of peasants and other people persons working in rural
areas, among others. Such measures could include:
(a)
Ensuring that relevant international cooperation, including international
development programmes, is inclusive, accessible and pertinent to peasants and other
people persons working in rural areas;
(d)
Providing, as appropriate, technical and economic assistance, facilitating
access to and sharing of accessible technologies, and through the voluntary transfer of
technologies, particularly to developing countries on mutually agreed terms;
Switzerland
La déclaration doit selon ma délégation également mentionner systématiquement la
responsabilité/l’obligation de la population paysanne de se conformer aux normes
environnementales internationales. Par ailleurs, nous partageons ce qui a été dit
précédemment et que les obligations en matière de protection de l’environnement des
acteurs non-étatiques devraient aussi être inscrites.
Ma délégation se félicite de l’inclusion de l’expression «dans des conditions convenues
d’un commun accord» dans le paragraphe 6, d). Nous demandons simplement qu’une
virgule soit insérée avant ce terme.
India
Recommended deleting paragraph 4.
Brazil
Proposed, as a compromise, moving the text of paragraph 4 to the preamble
Experts
Were against the deletion or moving paragraph 4 to the preamble.
CSOs
Proposed amending the text, for example, by including after “international agreements” the
text “as they apply to peasants and persons working in rural areas” or substituting “their
human rights obligations” for “the present declaration”.
CSRC
Para. 1: should be deleted; Present declaration that cannot be immediately guaranteed
Para. 2: add after children, Dalits
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