The Human Rights Council, Recalling all relevant Human Rights Council resolutions on the right to food, and recalling in particular Council resolutions 21/19 of 27 September 2012, 26/26 of 27 June 2014, 30/13 of 1 October 2015, and 36/22 of 29 September 2017 on the promotion and protection of the human rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, Welcoming with appreciation the constructive negotiations, participation and active engagement inthe open-ended intergovernmental working group on a United Nations declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas during its five sessions, and welcoming the report on its fifth session, 1. Adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas, as contained in the annex to the present resolution; 2. Recommends that the General Assembly, in accordance with paragraph 5 (c) of its resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, adopt the following draft resolution: The General Assembly, Welcoming the adoption by the Human Rights Council, through its resolution [39/x] of 28 September 2018, of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas, 1. Adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas, as contained in the annex to the present resolution; 2. Invites Governments, agencies and organizations of the United Nations system and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to disseminate the Declaration and to promote universal respect and understanding thereof. Recalling further the extensive work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Committee on World Food Security on the right to food, tenure rights, access to natural resources and other rights of peasants, in particular the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, and the Organization’s Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security, the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication and the Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security, Where appropriate, States shall take appropriate measures to carry out agrarian reforms in order to facilitate broad and equitable access to land and other natural resources necessary to ensure that peasants and other people working in rural areas enjoy adequate living conditions, and to limit excessive concentration and control of land, taking into account its social function. Landless peasants, young people, small-scale fishers and other rural workers should be given priority in the allocation of public lands, fisheries and forests. States shall take appropriate measures to ensure favourable safe and healthy working conditions for peasants and other people working in rural areas, and shall in particular designate appropriate competent authorities responsible, and establish mechanisms for intersectoral coordination for the implementation of policies and enforcement of national laws and regulations on occupational safety and health in agriculture, the agro-industry and fisheries, provide for corrective measures and appropriate penalties, and establish and support adequate and appropriate systems of inspection for rural workplaces. Peasants and other people living in rural areas have the right to land, individually and/or collectively, in accordance with article 28 of the present Declaration, including the right to have access to, sustainably use and manage land and the water bodies, coastal seas, fisheries, pastures and forests therein, to achieve an adequate standard of living, to have a place to live in security, peace and dignity and to develop their cultures. States shall take appropriate measures to promote and protect the traditional knowledge, innovation and practices of peasants and other people working in rural areas, including traditional agrarian, pastoral, forestry, fisheries, livestock and agroecological systems relevant to the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. Third commission of the United Nations in New York, will have to decide on the declaration before the 21st of November 2018, before the formal vote in the General Assembly. The Plenary of the UN General Assembly will formally adopt what was negotiated and decided in the 3rd Committee. The full text of the Declaration is available at: http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/39/L.16