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Statements
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Voluntary Guidelines on the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food
in the Context of National Food Security
by Margret Vidar, Legal Officer FAO
8 November 2004 (presentation)
The Right to Food Guidelines: New Demands for Academia in
Research and Capacity Development

by Margret Vidar, Legal Officer FAO presented at: Exploring the Potential for Introducing an Academic Course Linking Food, Nutritional Health and Human Rights in South Africa
Cape Town 8–9 November 2004 (presentation)
Fifty-Eighth Session of the General Assembly On Agenda Item 117 (b)
Human Rights questions Right to Food: Intergovernmental Working Group
on Right to Food Guidelines (IGWG-RTFG)

Statement by Ms. Florence A. Chenoweth Director FAO Liaison Office with the United Nations November 2003

The Right to Food in International Law
by Margret Vidar, Legal Officer, FAO
presented at "Critical Issues in Realising the Right to Food in South Africa"
Hosted by the Socio-Economic Rights Project of the
Community Law Centre University of the Western Cape
14 November 2003

FAO’s work on the Right to Food since 1994
Note by Margret Vidar, Legal Officer,
September 2003
FAO Statement to the 59th Session of the Commission on Human Rights
Geneva 17 March-24 April 2003
Item 10: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The Right to Adequate Food

Directives volontaires pour concrétiser progressivement le droit à une alimentation suffisante: Efforts joints et séparés de la FAO et du Haut Commissaire aux Droits de l'Homme and
La mise en oeuvre du droit à l'alimentation par mesures
administratives, politiques et legislatives

by Margret Vidar, Legal Officer FAO
presented at the "Forum sur le droit à une alimentation adéquate au Mali"
organized by the Mali Commissioner for Institutional Development and others
Bamako, Mali, 18-20 March 2003

Implementing the Right to Food: Achievements, shortcomings and challenges:
Advantages of framework law
by Margret Vidar, Legal Officer
Paper presented at the workshop "Towards the Full Realization of the Right to Food: Exploring the Potentials of Framework Law", organized by FIAN International with support from GDZ, in New Delhi, India, 24-26 February 2003
Address to the international workshop on "Policies Against Hunger"
by Jacques Diouf, FAO Director-General, Berlin 22 May 2002

Seminar on the Right to Adequate Food: Focus on National Implementation
Oslo 10-11 April 2002, Statements by Margret Vidar:
The Right to Food in the Rome Declaration and WFS PoA
Role of FAO in implementation of the right to food at the national level

The role of FAO and the intergovernmental process to develop
voluntary guidelines for the right to adequate food
by Kerstin Mechlem
a paper presented at the Seminar on the Implementation of the Right to Adequate Food
Uganda, January 2003

Opening remarks by Jacques Diouf, FAO Director-General on:
The right to food: a challenge for peace and development in the 21st century
Rome, 17-19 September 2001

Statement by Hartwig de Haen, Assistant Director-General, Economic and Social Department on:
The right to food: a challenge for peace and development in the 21st century
Rome, 17-19 September 2001

FAO Statement to Commission on Human Rights, 57th Session, 2001

FAO Contribution during the 3rd Expert Consultation on the Right to Food
(Bonn 12-14 March 2001)

Statement to the Working Group on the Right to Development of the Commission on Human Rights,
January 2001

Statement at Panel on Human Rights Education held by the High Commissioner for Human Rights,
11 December 2000

Paper for the International Conference on Statistics, Development and Human Rights,
Montreux 4-8 September 2000

Statement to a Consultation on the Right to Development
held by the High Commissioner for Human Rights,
6 April 2000

Statement to the Commission on Human Rights, 56th Session, 2000

Le droit à l'alimentation, Rôle, responsabilités et obligations de la FAO by Margret Vidar, Legal Office, FAO, published in "Faim de Vivre, La multidimensionalité du droit à l'alimentation", Commission nationale suisse pour l'UNESCO, IIEDH/CIDRESOC Université de Fribourg, Berne, Fribourg, 2000

FAO and the Right to Adequate Food by Margret Vidar and Gerald Moore, published in "Notes et Documents", 56, nouvelle série, septembre-décembre 1999, Institut International Jacques Maritain Centre International d'Etudes et de Recherches.

FAO's statement to the ACC/SCN Symposium on the Substance and Politics of a Human Rights Approach to Food and Nutrition Policies and Programmes, April 1999

FAO Statement to Commission on Human Rights, 55th Session, 1999

Statement by Gerald Moore, Legal Counsel of FAO, on 11 December 1998, to: "Human Rights at the Dawn of the 21st Century", held by the Italian Association for International Organizations and the Italian Committee for the Celebration of the 50th Anniversary. Italian version

Opening Statement for the Second Expert Consultations of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Right to Adequate Food, December 1998

FAO Statement to Commission on Human Rights, 54th Session

Paper for an Expert Seminar on the Right to Food held by the High Commissioner for Human Rights and for the General Discussion on the Normative Content of the Right to Food of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1 and 2 December 1997

FAO Statement to Commission on Human Rights, 53rd Session

Contribution of FAO to the Commission on Human Rights, 53rd Session


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