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Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Publication date: 14-10-2007
There is a general consensus that human rights are indivisible. In practice however, the division of human rights into at least two sets is manifest in the existence of the two major international human rights treaties, the International Covenant on
Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform
Publication date: 13-10-2007
The Global Campaign for Agrarian Reform is an initiative of FIAN and La Via Campesina, a world-wide network of peasant organisations and landless peoples' organisations. Since 1999, FIAN and La Via Campesina have been leading the Global
Voluntary Guidelines e-mail list
Publication date: 12-10-2007
This e-mail list provides you with updates around the Right to Food Guidelines. Between 2002 and 2004, the negotiation process contributed to strengthen the alliance of NGOs which had been committed to the promotion of the guidelines since 1997. During
FAO Right to Food Guidelines
Publication date: 11-10-2007
The Right to Food Guidelines are also know as Voluntary Guidelines. At the World Food Summit of 1996 hosted by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) in Rome, a consensus emerged that the persistence of hunger and malnutrition is a consequence
The ETO-Consortium
Publication date: 20-07-2008
The ETO Consortium is a network of currently some 30 NGOs, university institutes and individuals from different parts of the world who prepare a "document of principles" on extraterritorial states obligations for economic, social and cultural rights.
"African smallholders in focus - a voice in EU trade policy"
Publication date: 20-07-2008
Three quarters of the world's hungry people live in rural areas, the majority of them are smallholder farmers. The situation is particularly difficult in Africa. An important reason for this problem is their marginalisation in both national and international
