A/HRC/36/58
Paragraph 2
EU
2.
States shall take appropriate measures to eliminate conditions that cause or help to
perpetuate discrimination against peasants and people persons working in rural areas.
Chaudhry, expert
2.
States shall take appropriate measures to eliminate conditions that cause or help to
perpetuate discrimination against peasants and people working in rural areas. States should
also take measures to investigate crimes of discrimination against peasants and other
people working in rural areas and bring the perpetrators to justice.
Article 4. Rights of peasant women and other women working in rural
areas
Chaudhry, expert
Article 4. Rights of peasant women and other women working and living in rural areas
CSCR-PWESCR, comment
< We call on this Working Group to recognise rural women as individual rights holders and
not just as victims of violence and not just as vulnerable group that needs to be protected
and taken care of.
Recognise the role women play in providing care – child care, elderly care. States should
invest in institutionalise care facilities also in rural areas.
Inclusion of access to scientific and technical knowledge in the draft declaration. We also
would like the declaration to address the digital gap that rural community face especially
rural women.>
Paragraph 1
Chaudhry, expert
1.
States shall take all appropriate measures, including through implementing and
revising laws, to eliminate all forms of discrimination against rural peasant women and
other women working and living in rural areas in order to ensure, on the basis of equality
between men and women, that they fully and equally enjoy all human rights and
fundamental freedoms and that they are able to freely pursue, participate in and benefit
from rural economic, social, political and cultural development.
Paragraph 2
Subparagraph (a)
EU: additional subparagraph
Subpara (a) (bis) To purchase and dispose land on their own. They shall also be able to
inherit land.
Switzerland
(a)
To participate meaningfully, equally and effectively in the formulation and
implementation of gender-responsive development planning at all levels;
Chaudhry, expert
(a)
To participate meaningfully in governance, including in the formulation and
implementation of development planning at all levels;
Subparagraph (b)
EU
(b)
To have access to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health,
including to adequate health-care facilities, including information, counselling and services
in family planning;
Guatemala: reservation
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