United Nations General Assembly A/HRC/RES/21/19 Distr.: General 11 October 2012 Original: English Human Rights Council Twenty-first session Agenda item 5 Human rights bodies and mechanisms Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council 21/19. Promotion and protection of the human rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas The Human Rights Council, Recalling Human Rights Council resolutions 13/4 of 24 March 2010, 16/27 of 25 March 2011 and 19/7 of 22 March 2012, Determined to foster strict respect for the purposes and principles enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, 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, 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 80 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, and that these people are especially vulnerable to food insecurity, 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, Taking note of the draft declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas prepared by the Advisory Committee and submitted to the Human Rights Council,1 Convinced of the need to strengthen the protection and realization of the human rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas,  1 GE.12-17470 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. A/HRC/19/75, annex.