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What about the Right to Food?
On the eve of the commemoration of 60 years since the United Nations proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, some rights, like the Right to Food, are overshadowed by those that have received more political and public support, yet severe food insecurity affects at least one-seventh of the world's human population. (Photo: Barbara Ekwall, FAO Right-to-Food Coordinator)
1. Katheen Kurz is in charge of Reproductive Health and Nutrition at International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW). She recently attended the 34th Annual Session of the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN), which was hosted at FAO Headquarters by the FAO, WFP, and IFAD with the participation of Bioversity International. In some countries of West Africa and South-East Asia, the nutritional status of women is very poor. What can NGOs do to help restore women's right to food?
2. Ms. Fathia Abdallah, Senior nutritionist at UNHCR cares for women and children refugees who hardly have access to food. She would like to see the UN system work as one.
- "Yes, there is a right to food and it has to be respected at national and international levels", says Barbara Ekwall, Coordinator of the Rome-based FAO Right-to-Food Unit.
- Mozambique and Brazil are doing well, Darfur a case
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L. Kambirigi
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