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International Mission: Right to Food must be declared national priority in Guatemala
Publication date: 09-03-2010
Deep concern about attacks against human rights defenders Geneva/Guatemala, March 9: Several international organizations and networks 1 called attention at national and international level to the situation of hunger and malnutrition
Brazilian Congress approves incorporation of the Right to Food to national constitution
Publication date: 09-02-2010
On February 3, 2010, the Brazilian Congress approved the Constitutional Amendment Project (PEC in Portuguese) 047/2003, to incorporate the Right to Food as a fundamental right in the national constitution. The Right to Food will be included in article
Honduras: Call for Justice, not Impunity
Publication date: 25-01-2010
"We demand Justice, not impunity" Call for Solidarity with Honduras from CIFCA, FIDH, FIAN, Grupo Sur, Solidarité mondiale, ALOP , January 27 at 11:00 am, in front of the Belgium Ministry of Foreign Affairs The international
National Information Tour on Right to Food in Indonesia
Publication date: 22-12-2009
Heidelberg/Jakarta, 22.12.09 - The Right to Food Network in Indonesia, a network of 20 non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, and peasants' organizations, is launching a national information tour in 6 islands (Java, South Sulawesi,
One of the most frequent Human Rights Violations: Women´s and girls´right to food!
Publication date: 17-12-2009
Heidelberg, 17.12.09 - FIAN International welcomes the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which is to be celebrated tomorrow. The current global food crisis affects women disproportionately.
Ending of Face-It-Act-Now-Campaign but not of the Fight against Hunger!
Publication date: 11-12-2009
Handover of signatures in the European Parliament Brussels, December 10th 2009 - On the occasion of Human Rights Day, representatives of European sections of the international human rights organization for the right to food FIAN
Recognize land as a human right- Sellout of agricultural lands will aggravate food crisis
Publication date: 10-12-2009
Heidelberg 10/12/2009 - For the first time in decades, the estimate of undernourished people is on the rise again, and has passed the historic margin of one billion. Unsecured, unequal and discriminatory access to land and other natural resources
Investment in Monocultures violates Human Rights and aggravates Climate Change
Publication date: 09-12-2009
Heidelberg, 09.12.2009 - On December 10, the report "Red Sugar, Green Deserts. Latin American report on monocultures and violations of the Human Rights to adequate food and housing, to water, to land and to territory" is launched in Copenhagen by
1 billion hungry - NGOs call for new trade rules supportive of rights
Publication date: 27-11-2009
New book provides blueprint for more just trade system Geneva, 27 November 2009 - On the eve of the WTO Ministerial, a new book highlights the need for a fundamental reshaping of international trade and investment rules to put
