Olivier De Schutter | United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

Olivier De Schutter | United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Revising the CFA: Five proposals for the Dublin consultation

[10 April 2010] GENEVA – The Special Rapporteur has put forward five proposals to integrate the right to food framework and principles at the core of the revised Comprehensive Framework of Action (CFA), in order to make it consistent with international obligations as well as with statements made at the highest level, both by the UN Secretary general and by governments during the 2009 World Summit on Food Security.
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Set of minimum principles for land investments

[5 March 2010] GENEVA – The Special Rapporteur presents to the Human Rights Council an updated version of the minimum set of eleven human rights-based principles and measures that he proposed in June 2009 to ensure the right to food in the context of increasing numbers of large-scale transnational land investments.
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Brazil: Right to food now a Constitutional Right

[04/02/2010] GENEVA – The U.N. Special Rapporteur on the right to food welcomes the news that the Brazilian House of Representatives has voted the amendment on the right to food.
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Agribusiness and the right to food

[5 March 2010] GENEVA – The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Prof. Olivier De Schutter, presents on March 5th in Geneva his report on ‘Agribusiness and the right to food’.
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Climate change policies must be rooted in human rights principles

[16/12/2009] GENEVA – At the opening of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, twenty UN human rights experts, including Olivier De Schutter, stated that a “weak outcome of the climate change negotiations threatens to infringe upon human rights”.
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