Meeting #3 (Limited to 47 University Students)
United Nations Human Rights Council
AGENDA: Addressing Human Rights Issues in the Agriculture and Fisheries Sector
-Agriculture includes:
-Methods of agriculture include:
-Fisheries include
Committee A (12 delegates):
The health and safety of workers and local communities
(examples: use of chemicals, machinery, the working environment, communicable diseases)
Committee B (12 delegates):
Forced labour and the the use of child labour (60% of child labour worldwide is in the agricultural sector, according to the ILO)
Committee C (12 delegates):
The impact on communities and their traditional livelihoods due to: monoculture; commercial/large scale fishing; over fishing; land use of cash crops; volume of water use; and the impact of effluent and wastes
Committee D (11 delegates):
Forced resettlement of communities, including indigenous peoples
United Nations Human Rights Council
AGENDA: Addressing Human Rights Issues in the Agriculture and Fisheries Sector
-Agriculture includes:
- growing arable crops for human or animal consumption
- Rearing livestock for meat, eggs and dairy products
- growing non-food crops (biomass, cotton, dyes, flowers and other industrial products)
-Methods of agriculture include:
- monoculture
- plantations
- market gardening
- horticulture
- dairy farming
- animal husbandry
-Fisheries include
- capture fisheries which harvest wild stock
- culture fishers which mange stock (including open offshore aquaculture)
- marine and freshwater fish processing
Committee A (12 delegates):
The health and safety of workers and local communities
(examples: use of chemicals, machinery, the working environment, communicable diseases)
Committee B (12 delegates):
Forced labour and the the use of child labour (60% of child labour worldwide is in the agricultural sector, according to the ILO)
Committee C (12 delegates):
The impact on communities and their traditional livelihoods due to: monoculture; commercial/large scale fishing; over fishing; land use of cash crops; volume of water use; and the impact of effluent and wastes
Committee D (11 delegates):
Forced resettlement of communities, including indigenous peoples