A/HRC/36/58
Chaudhry, expert
PP24. Convinced of the need for greater protection of the human rights of peasants and
other people working and living in rural areas, and for a coherent interpretation and
application of existing international human rights norms and standards in this matter,
Preambular paragraph 25:
EU
PP25. Solemnly adopts the following declaration on the rights of peasants and other people
persons working in rural areas:
Article 1. Definition of peasants and other people working in rural
areas
RIDH, comment:
1.
<La definición que se adopte de lo campesino deberá incluir otros sectores y
actividades sociales y económicas que se desarrollan en lo rural, como son “los pobladores
rurales” que no son considerados en algunos países industrializados como campesinos en el
estricto sentido de la palabra; estos pobladores rurales mantienen relaciones sociales,
culturales, familiares y comunitarias con los campesinos, que son necesarias para su
supervivencia.>
Paragraph 1
Guatemala: reservation to the whole article and the parts indicated in brackets
1.
A los efectos de la presente Declaración, “campesino” es toda persona que se
dedique o pretenda dedicarse, ya sea de manera individual o en asociación con otras o como
comunidad, a la producción agrícola en pequeña escala para subsistir o comerciar y que
para ello dependa, sobre todo, aunque no necesariamente en exclusiva, del trabajo en
familia o en el hogar y de otras formas no monetarias de organización del trabajo, y que
tenga una especial dependencia [y apego a sus] tierras.
ILO
1.
For the purposes of the present declaration, a peasant is any person who engages or
who seeks to engage alone, or in association with others or as a community, in small-scale
agricultural production for subsistence and/or for the market, and who relies significantly,
though not necessarily exclusively, on family or household labour – including of his or
her children – and other non-monetized ways of organizing labour, and who has a special
dependency on and attachment to the lands.
Paragraph 2
Chaudhry, expert
2.
The present declaration applies to any person engaged in artisanal or small-scale
agriculture, the raising of livestock, pastoralism, fishing, forestry, hunting or gathering, and
handicrafts related to agriculture or a related occupation in a rural area.
Paragraph 3
Guatemala: reservation
3.
[La presente Declaración se aplica también a los pueblos indígenas que trabajan la
tierra, a las comunidades trashumantes y nómadas y a las personas sin tierra.]
Colombia (report, para. 52)
3.
{The present declaration also applies to indigenous peoples working on the land,
transhumant and nomadic communities and the landless.}
PWESCR (report, para. 52)
3.
The present declaration also applies to indigenous peoples working on the land,
transhumant and nomadic communities, Dalits, and the landless.
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