A/HRC/39/67 3. States shall recognize the rights of peasants and other people persons working in rural areas to social security, including social insurance, and, in accordance with national circumstances, should establish or maintain their social protection floors comprising basic social security guarantees. The guarantees should ensure at a minimum that, over the life cycle, all in need have access to essential health care and to basic income security, which together secure effective access to goods and services defined as necessary at the national level. ILO 1. Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to social security, including social insurance. They also have the right to enjoy fully all social security rights established under applicable international and domestic labour and social security law. 2. Migrant workers in rural areas shall, regardless of their legal status, enjoy equality of treatment with nationals in social security. 3. States shall recognize the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas to social security, including social insurance, and, in accordance with national circumstances, should establish or strengthen strengthen their social protection floors comprising basic social security guarantees, as part of their social security systems. These guarantees should ensure at a minimum that, over the life cycle, all in need have access to at least essential health care and to basic income security, which together secure effective access to goods and services defined as necessary at the national level. 4. Basic social security guarantees should be established by law. They should promote non-discrimination, be responsive to special needs and be socially inclusive and include workers in the informal economy. Impartial, transparent, effective, accessible and affordable grievance and appeal procedures should also be specified. Systems should be in place to enhance compliance with national legal frameworks. IUF Para. 2 The IUF supports the maintenance of the text as it is i.e. retain “regardless of their legal status”. Article 23 EU 1. Peasants and other people persons working in rural areas have the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. They also have the right to have access, without any discrimination, to all social and health services. 2. Peasants and other people persons working in rural areas have the right to use and protect their traditional medicines and to maintain their health practices, including access to and conservation of their plants, animals and minerals for medicinal use. ILO 3 States shall guarantee access to health facilities, goods and services in rural areas on a non-discriminatory basis, especially for groups in vulnerable situations, access to essential medicines, immunization against major infectious diseases, reproductive health, information concerning the main health problems affecting the community, including methods of preventing and controlling them, maternal and child health care, as well as decent working conditions and training for health personnel, including education on health and human rights. 49

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