The Right to Adequate Food: Contributions from the UN Committee on World Food Security

The Right to Food
Thursday, 27 June 2024,14:00-15:00 CEST
Room XXII, Palais des Nations, Geneva (in person, English)

We kindly invite you to join a dialogue on “The Right to Adequate Food – Contributions from the UN Committee on World Food Security,” organized in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR); FIAN International; the German Institute for Human Rights and Member States.

Within the context of the 20th Anniversary of the adoption of the Voluntary Guidelines for the progressive realization of the right to adequate food in a context of national food security, this event will share essential contributions through the tools of the CFS in terms of policy guidance towards the progressive realization of the right to food. It will gather different stakeholders to discuss and exchange knowledge and experiences to inform a more coherent approach for food security and nutrition for all. It will also consider how to strengthen synergies around the right to food, using the advanced normative framework to address current intersecting crises and challenges.

Panel:

• First Keynote speaker:  Ambassador Nosipho Jezile, Chairperson of the UN Committee on World Food Security
• Second Keynote speaker: Nada Al-Nashif, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR

Comments from:

• H.E. Tovar Da Silva Nunes, Ambassador, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva
• Juan Echanove, Team Leader, FAO Right to Food, Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division, FAO, Rome
• Ana Maria Suárez Franco, FIAN International/Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSIPM)

Moderator:

• Michael Windfuhr, Deputy Director of the German Institute for Human Rights and Member of Committee on Economic, Social And Cultural Rights (CESCR)

For more information, please contact Anna Ricoy, FAO Liaison Office Geneva ([email protected])

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