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UN Committee presents its concluding observations on Paraguay state report
Publication date: 03-12-2007
In November, La Vía Campesina and FIAN presented a parallel report on Paraguay before the UN Committee on ESCR, denouncing that the right to adequate food of thousands of peasants and indigenous families has been violated.
The CESCR is the UN body that examines the fulfilment of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by its States Parties. The states have the obligation to report regularly to the Committee on the realization of economic, social and cultural rights at the national level. In November, the Committee considered the state report by Paraguay and consequently drafted the following concluding observations:
