The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor aims to make legal protection and economic opportunity not the privilege of the few but the right of all. Legal Empowerment is hosted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It was launched in 2005 by a group of developing and industrialized countries including Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Guatemala, Iceland, India, Norway, Sweden, South Africa, Tanzania and the United Kingdom.

     Education is an essential prerequisite for reducing poverty, improving agriculture and the living conditions of rural people and building a food-secure world. The website is intended to be a flagship for a collaborative action to address rural-urban disparities by targeting the educational needs of rural people.

    This portal provides education and training materials for rural teachers, instructors, trainers, parents, researchers, extension agents and others involved in formal and non formal education for rural people. It could also provide tools for self studies.

    An international classroom for exploring the problems of hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity. Feeding Minds Fighting Hunger is designed to help equip and encourage teachers, students and young people all over the world to actively participate in creating a world free from hunger. You will find lesson modules for teachers, resources and activities for young people and an interactive forum for exchanging information and experiences around the world.

    Food Force is an educational computer game published by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). Players take on missions to distribute food in a famine affected country and to help it to recover and become self-sufficient again. At the same time they learn about hunger in the real world and WFP's work to prevent it. Finally! An educational game that rocks!

    This website provides access to Food Security related information and resources produced by the EC-FAO Food Security Information for Action Programme. Its overall purpose is to enhance national capacity to use food security information from different sectors and sources for more effective anti-hunger policies and programmes.

    Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is an international non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through on-line technologies. HREA is dedicated to quality education and training to promote understanding, attitudes and actions to protect human rights, and to foster the development of peaceable, free and just communities.

    The goal of the Publications Programme of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is to raise awareness of human rights and fundamental freedoms and to publicize ways of promoting and protecting them at the international level.

    The Right to Education is a fundamental human right. It occupies a central place in Human Rights and is essential and indispensable for the exercise of all other human rights and for development. "As an empowerment right, education is the primary vehicle by which economically and socially marginalized adults and children can lift themselves out of poverty, and obtain the means to participate fully in their communities." None of the civil, political, economic and social rights can be exercised by individuals unless they have received a certain minimum education.

    A module on Right to Food that identifies international standards related to the right to food; discusses the right to adequate food; analyses the relationship of the right to food to other rights; considers states' obligations under international and national law; and addresses implementation and enforcement mechanisms.