A/HRC/33/59
Programme on Women’s Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, South Asian Feminist
Alliance for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Community Self-Reliance Centre
Article 6
2. suggested adding:
• States should address structural causes of poverty of rural women. States
should demonstrate how their fiscal policies are pro rural women.
• States should recognize rural women as individual right holders and not just as
members of households or dependents of male breadwinners. Rural women
should receive entitlements as individuals.
• States should reduce and redistribute women’s unpaid work. To reduce
women’s time burden, States should provide basic rights and services which
include: housing, water, sanitation, education, health, fodder, institutionalized
child care facilities, energy (including domestic energy for fuel and fodder) and
better technology options.
• States should ensure better infrastructure support for rural women’s needs to
reduce the day-to-day drudgery of providing for themselves and their families.
This should include access to markets (labour and goods), internal roads, and
transport subsidies to support rural women’s mobility.
• States should invest in awareness raising campaigns and promote equal sharing
of care and unpaid work between men and women.
C.
Articles 13 to 18
Egypt
Article 14
1.
Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to access to, and
prompt decision through, just and fair procedures for the resolution of disputes. States shall
allow for non-discriminatory access, through impartial and competent judicial and
administrative bodies, to timely, affordable and effective means of resolving disputes, and
should provide effective remedies, which may include a right of appeal, as appropriate.
Such remedies should be enforced promptly and may include restitution, indemnity,
compensation and reparation. States shall respect and promote customary approaches and
other alternative dispute resolution mechanisms used by peasants and other people working
in rural areas to resolve conflicts in a manner that is consistent with human rights, and in
conformity with laws in force.
Article 15
2.
States shall create an enabling environment with opportunities for work and that
provides remuneration allowing for an adequate standard of living for peasants and other
people working in rural areas and their families. In States facing high levels of rural poverty
and in the absence of employment opportunities in other sectors, States shall establish and
promote, as appropriate, food systems that are sufficiently labour-intensive to contribute
to the creation of employment.
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