Promotion and protection of the human rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas 2014, para. 8
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Gravely concerned that hunger, like poverty, is still predominantly a rural problem, and that in the rural population it is those who produce food who suffer disproportionately, and alarmed that 75 per cent of people suffering from hunger live in rural areas, particularly in developing countries, and 50 per cent are small-scale and traditional farm holders, as well as subsistence farmers, and that they are especially vulnerable to food insecurity, malnutrition, discrimination and exploitation,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Vote
Topic(s)
Food & Nutrition
Poverty
Person(s) affected
All
Year
2014
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
HRC resolution, Promotion and protection of the human rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas (2014), A/HRC/RES/26/26, PP 8.