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Donna Bryson | Associated Press Writer , 22-07-2008

bullet  Nelson Mandela's group of elders say food is human right, call for solutions to food crisis

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) _ Desmond Tutu, Kofi Annan and other members of Nelson Mandela's global crisis task force turned their attention to world hunger on Wednesday, focusing on soaring food prices.

The Nobel laureates and human rights activists the former South African president brought together as The Elders at his birthday last year have sent peace missions to the Middle East and Sudan's Darfur and spoken out against sham elections and political violence in Zimbabwe.
 
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  What about the Right to Food?
-Barbara Ekwall, Coordinator of the Rome-based FAO Right-to-Food Unit
 

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