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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:
  • 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



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