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VGGT sections
Human Rights
Land issues
Instrument
Countries
Land issue | VGGT Section | VGGT Paragraph | Human Right | Human rights instrument | Article |
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Ensure responsible investments in land |
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12.2Considering that smallholder producers and their organizations in developing countries provide a major share of agricultural investments that contribute significantly to food security, nutrition, poverty eradication and environmental resilience, States should support investments by smallholders as well as public and private smallholder-sensitive investments |
Right to an adequate standard of living |
ICEDAWInternational Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women |
12.2.hStates Parties shall undertake all appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination against women in rural areas in order to ensure, on a basis of equality of men and women, that they participate in and benefit from rural development and, in particular, shall ensure to such women the right … (h) to enjoy adequate living conditions, particularly in relation to housing, sanitation, electricity and water supply, transport and communications |