United Nations
General Assembly
A/HRC/RES/36/22
Distr.: General
9 October 2017
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-sixth session
11–29 September 2017
Agenda item 5
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 29 September 2017
36/22.
Promotion and protection of the human rights of peasants and
other people working in rural areas
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
Determined to foster strict respect for the purposes and principles enshrined in the
Charter of the United Nations,
Recalling the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Recalling also the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and all other
relevant human rights instruments,
Recalling further Human Rights Council resolutions 13/4 of 24 March 2010, 16/27
of 25 March 2011 and 19/7 of 22 March 2012 on the right to food, and in particular Council
resolutions 21/19 of 27 September 2012, 26/26 of 27 June 2014 and 30/13 of 1 October
2015 on the promotion and protection of the human rights of peasants and other people
working in rural areas,
Underlining the imperative need to achieve the unfinished agenda of the Millennium
Development Goals in order to contribute to making the right to development a reality for
everyone, and welcoming the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
Welcoming General Assembly resolution 66/222 of 22 December 2011, in which the
Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming, and welcoming also its
resolution 68/232 of 20 December 2013, in which the Assembly declared 2015 the
International Year of Soils, and its resolution 68/231 of 20 December 2013, in which it
declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses,
Taking note of general recommendation No. 34 (2016) on the rights of rural women,
adopted by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in March
2016,
GE.17-17693(E)