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Right to Food Conference
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Friday September 8th, 2008. I attended a conference organized by Rights & Democracy and the Canadian FoodGrains Bank on the theme: “Solutions for Hunger - A Policy Seminar on the Human Right to Food”. Basically we discussed how the Right to food (adequate food) should be incorporated in the national laws of every country, and in the mandate of international UN agencies. I have understood the “right to food” primarily as a participatory approach by which people can actually participate in the process of establishing or advocating for good food policies such as claiming the right to food. Indeed many countries ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which article 11 says “The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions. The States Parties will take appropriate steps to ensure the realization of this right, recognizing to this effect the essential importance of international co-operation based on free consent.” According to international law, every people if they could not have any response from their national judicial system to claim their rights were violated, can have access to an international court. Other international commitments are enshrined in the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Additionally, article 56 of the Charter of the United Nations that states must cooperate in the identification and elimination of the obstacles to the full realization of the right to food. In 2004, the FAO adopted “Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of Food Security at the National Level” (the Guidelines) as a follow up to the World Food Summit series of conferences. The Guidelines provide a roadmap for states and civil society who want to apply the human rights framework for strategies to end hunger. Since their adoption, the Guidelines have inspired a number of initiatives designed to implement the human right to food. These initiatives have included country-level assessments, grassroots awareness campaigns, legislative and judicial procedures and violation monitoring.
I want to use this blog to write stuff I learned. For those interested in having access to some resources, they can read the following documents:
Building resilience: A human rights framework for world food and nutrition security, Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Human Rights Council http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/
Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of Food Security at the National Level
www.fao.org/docrep/meeting/009/y9825e/y9825e00.htm
3 case studies:
The Human Right to Food in Malawi: Results of an international fact-finding mission, Rights & Democracy and FIAN International, 2006
www.dd-rd.ca/site/_PDF/publications/globalization/food/food_malawi.pdf
The Human Right to Food in Nepal: Results of an international fact-finding mission, Rights & Democracy, 2007
www.dd-rd.ca/site/_PDF/publications/globalization/food/report_nepal_sep07.pdf
The Human Right to Food in Haiti: Results of an international fact-finding mission, Rights & Democracy and GRAMIR, 2008 http://www.dd-rd.ca/site/publications/index.php?id=2316&subsection=catalogue



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