Promotion and Protection of the Human Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas

A/HRC/RES/21/19View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Human Rights Council, under agenda item 5 Human rights bodies and mechanisms, published in 2012.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 2012–2017

This is an older version — the most recent is A/HRC/RES/36/22

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2017	A/HRC/RES/36/22	Promotion and protection of the human rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas	928	68%Compare
2015	A/HRC/RES/30/13	Promotion and protection of the human rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas	763	48%Compare
2014	A/HRC/RES/26/26	Promotion and protection of the human rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas	668	41%Compare
2012	A/HRC/RES/21/19	Promotion and protection of the human rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas	439	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Agricultural Workers Declarations Human Rights Peasantry Rural Areas Working Groups

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Decides to establish an open-ended intergovernmental working group with the mandate of negotiating, finalizing and submitting to the Human Rights Council a draft United Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, on the basis of the draft submitted by the Advisory Committee, and without prejudging relevant past, present and future views and proposals;

Also decides that the working group shall hold its first session for five working days in 2013, before the twenty-third session of the Human Rights Council;

Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to provide the working group with the human, technical and financial assistance necessary for it to fulfil its mandate;

Requests the President of the Human Rights Council to invite the Rapporteur of the Advisory Committee drafting group on the draft declaration to participate in the first session of the working group;

Invites States, civil society, representatives of peasants and other people working in rural areas and all relevant stakeholders to contribute actively and constructively to the work of the working group;

Requests the working group to submit a report on progress made to the Human Rights Council for its consideration at its twenty-sixth session.

  The resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council will be contained in the report of the Council on its twenty-first session (A/HRC/21/2), chap. I.

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