[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.
The UN High Level Task Force for the Global Food Security Crisis (HLTF) has indeed launched a process to update the CFA, which was initially presented in July 2008. A dialogue on the revision of the CFA will take place in Dublin (17th and 18th May 2010).
The key message of the contribution of the Special Rapporteur is the following: the right to food is not merely a slogan, and it is not only of symbolic value; it is a tool, with clear operational impacts, that can improve the impacts of interventions in a variety of domains, and make them more sustainable in the long-term. Because it improves targeting, it can act as a compass for tackling food insecurity. Because it promotes accountability, it can ensure that efforts are directed to those whose rights are violated.
| ReadPDF | “Five proposals for a genuine integration of the right to food in the Revised Comprehensive Framework of Action (CFA)” Contribution to the Dublin Consultation (17-18 May 2010), Olivier De Schutter, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the right to food, 10 April 2010. |