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

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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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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WTO Ministerial: “Trade negotiations need to reflect the new global consensus on hunger”

[01/12/2009] GENEVA – “Trade negotiations need to reflect the new global consensus on hunger” – Days after the World Summit on Food Security in Rome, the Special Rapporteur reviews the stakes of the ongoing WTO Ministerial for global food security.
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Back from Rome

[30/11/2009] GENEVA / BRUSSELS – The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food was in Rome for the World Summit on Food Security.

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Coming Events

8 April: Colloquium on Agroecology

8 April: Colloquium on Agroecology at the French Senate: “L’agroécologie: une pratique d’avenir” (Paris)
 
11 April: Address to the Centre for Development and Environment

11 April: Address to the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) and World Trade Institute on 'The Right to Food: Need for Action and Knowledge Gaps' (Bern)
 
15-16 April: High Level Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Climate Justice

15-16 April: High Level Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Climate Justice (Dublin)
 

Past events

21 March: Address to INRA

21 March: Address to the INRA conference on food aid and the right to food (Montpellier)
 
6 March - Address to all-party parliamentary group

6 March: Address to All Party Parliamentary Group on Agriculture and Food for Development of the UK Parliament (London)
 
18 March: Seminar on social protection (Geneva)

18 March: Participation in the Seminar on social protection as a catalyst for food security and the right to adequate food (International Labor Organization, Geneva)