A/HRC/39/67
Article 11
EU
Title: Right to Access to information with regard to production, marketing and
distribution
1.
Peasants and other people persons working in rural areas have the right to seek,
receive, develop and impart information, as appropriate, including information about
factors that may affect the production, processing, marketing and distribution of their
products.
2.
States shall adopt appropriate measures to ensure that peasants and other people
persons working in rural areas have access, as appropriate, to transparent, timely and
adequate information in a language and form and through means adequate to their cultural
methods that ensure their effective participation in decision-making in matters that may
affect their lives, land and livelihoods.
3.
Peasants and other people persons working in rural areas should have the right
access to a fair, impartial and appropriate system of evaluation and certification of the
quality of their products at the local, nation and international levels, and to participate in its
formulation.
South Africa
2 — language reformulation — …include “relevant” in addition to transparent, timely and
adequate information so as to ensure and also add “taking into account their cultural
methods so as to” before the words ensure their effective participation in decision and also
add “overall well-being and empowerment” after the words livelihoods.
Article 12
EU
1.
Peasants and other people persons working in rural areas have the right to effective
and non-discriminatory access to justice, including access to fair procedures for the
resolution of disputes and to effective remedies for all infringements of their human rights.
Such a decision shall give due consideration to their customs, traditions, rules and legal
systems in conformity with relevant obligations under international human rights law.
3.
Peasants and other people persons working in rural areas have the right to legal
assistance. States shall consider additional measures, including legal aid, to support
peasants and other people working in rural areas who would otherwise not have access to
administrative and judicial services.
5.
States shall provide peasants and other people persons working in rural areas with
effective mechanisms for the prevention of and redress for any action that has the aim or
effect of violating their human rights, arbitrarily dispossessing them of their land and
natural resources or of depriving them of their means of subsistence and integrity, and for
any form of forced sedentarization or population displacement.
CSRC
Kindly requested to add sentence state should ensure to stop such kind of investment in
agriculture and land and eviction of informal tenants, sharecroppers and smallholders in the
declaration for the protection and rights these groups.
Ana Maria Suárez Franco
En cuanto al punto resaltado sobre la Unión Europea de no usar la palabra “disposesing” y
anteponer la palabra “arbitrary” se aclaró que:
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