A/HRC/RES/54/9
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 October 2023
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Fifty-fourth session
11 September–13 October 2023
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 11 October 2023
54/9.
Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in
rural areas
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Guided also by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights and all relevant international human rights instruments,
Recalling the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of all
human rights and the need of peasants and other people working in rural areas, including
women and girls, to be guaranteed the full enjoyment of their rights and freedoms without
discrimination,
Welcoming with appreciation the constructive negotiation, participation and active
engagement at the five sessions of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on a
United Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas,
and welcoming the report of the Working Group on its fifth session,1
Recalling General Assembly resolution 73/165 of 17 December 2018 and Human
Rights Council resolution 39/12 of 28 September 2018, in which the Assembly and the
Council adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People
Working in Rural Areas, recognizing the past, present and future contributions of peasants
and other people working in rural areas in all regions of the world to development and to
conserving and improving biodiversity, which constitute the basis of food and agricultural
production throughout the world, and their contribution to ensuring the right to adequate food
and food security, which are fundamental to attaining the internationally agreed development
goals, including in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
Recalling also the United Nations Decade of Family Farming (2019–2028), which has
raised the profile of the role of family farming in contributing to the achievement of food
security and improved nutrition,2 and the International Year of Camelids, in 2024,
recognizing that camelids constitute the main means of subsistence for millions of poor
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A/HRC/39/67.
See General Assembly resolution 72/239.
GE.23-19771(E)