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Legal recognition and allocation of tenure rights and duties

8. Public land, fisheries and forests

8.11

States should monitor the outcome of allocation programmes, including the gender-differentiated impacts on food security and poverty eradication as well as their impacts on social, economic and environmental objectives, and introduce corrective measures as required.

Right to equality and non-discrimination



Human rights note

Reference is made here to the rights listed in connection to guideline 8.1.

ICESCR
2.2

The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to guarantee that the rights enunciated in the present Covenant will be exercised without discrimination of any kind as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. To be read in conjunction with the rights mentioned above



Explanatory note

CESCR has clarified that the concept of "property", as a ground of discrimination, includes a person's land tenure status. The Covenant thus provide protection, for example, from forced eviction regardless of a person's land tenure status. See CESCR, General Comment nos. 20 and 4.

3

The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to ensure the equal right of men and women to the enjoyment of all economic, social and cultural rights set forth in the present Covenant. To be read in conjunction with the rights mentioned above