United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants
and Other People Working in Rural Areas
A/RES/73/165
(b) Facilitating and supporting capacity-building, including through the
exchange and sharing of information, experiences, training programmes and best
practices;
(c) Facilitating cooperation in research and in access to scientific and
technical knowledge;
(d) Providing, as appropriate, technical and economic assistance, facilitating
access to and sharing of accessible technologies, and through the transfer of
technologies, particularly to developing countries, on mutually agreed terms;
(e) Improving the functioning of markets at the global level and facilitating
timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help to
limit extreme food price volatility and the attractiveness of speculation.
Article 3
1.
Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to the full
enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms recognized in the Charter
of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 2 and all other
international human rights instruments, free from any kind of discrimination in the
exercise of their rights based on any grounds such as origin, nationality, race, colour,
descent, sex, language, culture, marital status, property, disability, age, political or
other opinion, religion, birth or economic, social or other status.
2.
Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to determine and
develop priorities and strategies to exercise their right to development.
3.
States shall take appropriate measures to eliminate conditions that cause or help
to perpetuate discrimination, including multiple and intersecting forms of
discrimination, against peasants and other people working in rural areas.
Article 4
1.
States shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate all forms of
discrimination against peasant women and other women working in rural areas and to
promote their empowerment in order to ensure, on the basis of equality be tween 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.
2.
States shall ensure that peasant women and other women working in rural areas
enjoy without discrimination all the human rights and fundamental freedoms set out
in the present Declaration and in other international human rights instruments,
including the rights:
(a) To participate equally and effectively
implementation of development planning at all levels;
in
the
formulation
and
(b) To have equal access to the highest attainable standard of physical and
mental health, including adequate health-care facilities, information, counselling and
services in family planning;
(c)
To benefit directly from social security programmes;
(d) To receive all types of training and education, whether formal or
non-formal, including training and education relating to functional literacy, and to
benefit from all community and extension services in order to increase their technical
proficiency;
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