United Nations
General Assembly
A/HRC/RES/30/13
Distr.: General
13 October 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirtieth session
Agenda item 5
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 1 October 2015
30/13.
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 and 26/26 of 27 June 2014 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 Millennium Development Goals by
2015 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,
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,
Recognizing that livelihoods in rural areas are disproportionately affected by
poverty, climate change, lack of development and lack of access to scientific progress,
GE.15-17661(E)
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