A/HRC/39/67 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 28

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