This year´s Human Rights Day begins the countdown to the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which FAO continuous to be firmly committed.

Climate change is a human rights issue, and human rights must guide the solution.

Brief, 2022

The COVID-19 crisis is exacerbating food insecurity and malnutrition in the Pacific region as measures to halt the spread of the virus have unintended impacts on people’s lives. Urgent steps are needed to address food insecurity for the poorest and most marginalized.

Food and social protection are human rights. Social protection and the right to food are key to building efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, that leave no one behind.

This year´s World Food Safety Day recognized that safer food is key for better health and called to protect the poorest from unsafe food, as they are the most affected.

Flyer, 2022

The project “Nutrition guidelines and standards for safeguarding schoolchildren and adolescents’ right to food” aims to develop a global methodology to design nutrition guidelines and standards for school food, which will initially be piloted in Cambodia and Ghana at subnational level.

Safeguarding schoolchildren’s nutrition is a human rights issue.