A/HRC/39/67
Annex III
List of concrete suggestions
General
Colombia
Colombia reiterated a number of comments made on the draft declaration as presented at
the 4th session.
Preamble
Colombia
Suggested to replace “food sovereignty” with “food security;
Argentina
Suggested replacing “food sovereignty” with “food security in PP 22
South Africa
• To add: Recalling the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations
which recognize the inherent dignity and worth and the equal and inalienable rights
of all members of the human family as the foundation of freedom, justice and peace
in the world, (from the preamble of the CRPD),
• To add: Reaffirming the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and
interrelatedness of all human rights and fundamental freedoms; and further
reaffirming the fundamental human rights principles of human rights: equality, nondiscrimination and transparency, dignity, transparency, inclusion, equity,
participation accountability and the need for peasants and other people working in
rural areas to be guaranteed their full enjoyment,
• South Africa proposes language that speaks to the empowerment and capacity
building for peasants and other people working in rural areas on their rights so that
they are able to fully participate in the decision making processes,
• Add language on mobilizing resources and investment in implementation and
capacity-building. It is important that international cooperation also be reflected.
ILO
Proposal for a new paragraph(s), possibly after pp10 or pp14:
“Recognizing that most child labour is performed in the various subsectors of agriculture,
much of this work is hazardous, and that is mainly performed in informal and family
enterprises that depend on their children’s labour,”
The above paragraph is based on the language used in the Buenos Aires Declaration
adopted by IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour. The
original paragraph reads as follows: “Recognizing that 71 per cent of child labour is
performed in the various subsectors of agriculture, 42 per cent of this work is hazardous,
and is mainly performed in informal and family enterprises that depend on their children’s
labour”.
An additional paragraph that we would like to propose for your consideration, which is also
taken from the Buenos Aires Declaration, reads as follows:
“Recognizing the importance of rural poverty reduction, the extension of social protection
and access to public, free, complete, universal, quality primary and secondary education,
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