freedom from hunger

'The Human Right to Food and the Global Food Crisis'

3/09/08
On August 29th, some of the human rights world’s leading voices, working toward solutions to the global food crisis, gathered at the United Nations to discuss: 'The Human Right to Food and the Global Food Crisis: Root Causes and Responses'. The need for a human rights-based approach to solving the food crisis has never been more pressing.
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Friday: Live web-cast discussion on Right to Food

28/08/08
People around the world continue to bear the burden of rising food costs; while the global food crisis' root causes remain unaddressed. This Friday at 19:00 GMT, Every Human Has Rights partners ActionAid and Realizing Rights, join Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, and others to discuss a human rights approach to ending the food crisis. You can listen in via live web-cast.
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Elders join HungerFREE demanding action

19/07/08

Elders join HungerFREE to demand urgent action on global food crisis Kofi Annan, Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson and other Elders joined forces with ActionAid’s HungerFREE campaign last night to continue the fight against the global food crisis...

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Freedom from Hunger - Aerial Art

16/07/08

As the Every Human Has Rights campaign spends July focused on 'The Right to Freedom from Hunger', we have the privilege of reporting on a collaboration between two of our campaign partners that resulted in one of the most beautiful calls to action on the global food crisis we've seen to date.

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Food Crisis – a “Right” Solution

13/07/08

On Wednesday 9 July 2008, as part of July’s campaign theme 'The Right to Freedom from Hunger', Mary Robinson addressed a conference hosted by ActionAid Ireland and Concern Worldwide in Dublin, Ireland. During the event, Ms. Robinson sent a warning to the world leaders that they have a legal obligation to tackle the current food crisis and ensure the universal right to food.

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The Right to Freedom from Hunger

The Right to Freedom from Hunger

Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms that, “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food…” Article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) states that everyone has “…the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger…”

Stopping the Food Crisis - GCAP Call to Action

31/05/08

“If we would have upheld the Universal Declaration, maybe that’s the way to put it, what a different world we would live in; because there would be no family that would wake up hungry. We have enough food in the world. It’s a matter of whether we care enough.” - Mary Robinson

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