1 - Universal Periodic Review

Enabling mechanisms should be enacted and put into place to ensure the food securityof agrarian reform petitioners and beneficiaries. The government should fully complywith its specific human rights obligations to agrarian reform petitioners and beneficiariesunder the ICESCR.(ix) Fulfill the Human Rights Obligations to the Rural PoorThe Philippine state must ulfil its obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the humanrights of the rural poor population, especially those who place themselves within the foldof the law and attempt to claim their legal rights to the full ownership and control of landand its fruits.#IFFM 2006 Final Report 38