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 28

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