A/HRC/13/32
Article III
Right to life and to an adequate standard of living
1.
Peasants (women and men) have the right to physical integrity, to not be harassed,
evicted, persecuted, arbitrarily arrested, and killed for defending their rights.
2.
Women peasants have the right to be protected from domestic violence(physical,
sexual, verbal an psychological)
3.
Women have the right to control their own bodies and to reject the use of their
bodies for commercial purposes. All forms of human (women and girls) trafficking are
inhuman and have to be condemned.
4.
Peasants (women and men) have the right to live in dignity.
5.
Peasants (women and men) have the right to adequate, healthy, nutritious, and
affordable food, and to maintain their traditional food cultures.
6.
Peasants (women and men) have the right to the highest attainable standard of
physical and mental health. Therefore, they have the right to have access to health services
and medicine, even when they live in remote areas. They also have the right to use and
develop traditional medicine.
7.
Peasants (women and men) have the right to live a healthy life, and not be affected
by the contamination of agrochemicals (such as chemical pesticides and fertilisers that are
creating fertility problems and contaminating breast milk).
8.
Peasant (women and men) have the right to decide about the number of children
they want to have, and about the contraceptive methods they want to use.
9.
Peasants (women and men) have the right to the full realization of their sexual and
reproductive rights.
10.
Peasants (women and men) have the right to safe water, transportation, electricity,
communication and leisure.
11.
Peasants (women and men) have the right to education and training.
12.
Peasants (women and men) have the right to an adequate income to fulfil their basic
needs and those of their families.
13.
Peasants (women and men) have the right to adequate housing and clothing.
14.
Peasants (women and men) have the right to consume their own agricultural
production and to use this to satisfy their families’ basic needs, and the right to distribute
their agriculture production to other people.
15.
The right of peasants (women and men) to life and the fulfilment of their basic needs
should be protected by the law and by the state, with the assistance and cooperation of
others, without discrimination of any kind.
Article IV
Right to land and territory
1.
Peasants (women and men) have the right to own land, collectively or individually,
for their housing and farming.
2.
Peasants (women and men) and their families have the right to toil on their own
land, and to produce agricultural products, to rear livestock, to hunt and gather, and to fish
in their territories
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