IV. Right of peasant women and other women working in rural areas

1. States shall take all appropriate measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination against peasant women and other women working in rural areas and to promote their empowerment in order to ensure, on the basis of equality between men and women, that they fully and equally enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms and that they are able to freely pursue, participate in and benefit from rural economic, social, political and cultural development.
2. States shall ensure that peasant women and other women working in rural areas enjoy without discrimination all the human rights and fundamental freedoms set out in the present Declaration and in other international human rights instruments, including the rights:
(a) To participate equally and effectively in the formulation and implementation of development planning at all levels;
(b) To have equal access to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, including adequate health-care facilities, information, counselling and services in family planning;
(c) To benefit directly from social security programmes;
(d) To receive all types of training and education, whether formal or non-formal, including training and education relating to functional literacy, and to benefit from all community and extension services in order to increase their technical proficiency;
(e) To organize self-help groups, associations and cooperatives in order to obtain equal access to economic opportunities through employment or self- employment;
(f) To participate in all community activities;
(g) To have equal access to financial services, agricultural credit and loans, marketing facilities and appropriate technology;
(h) To equal access to, use of and management of land and natural resources, and to equal or priority treatment in land and agrarian reform and in land resettlement schemes;
(i) To decent employment, equal remuneration and social protection benefits, and to have access to income-generating activities;
(j) To be free from all forms of violence.