The FIAN Right to Food Journal, formerly the Right to Food Quarterly, provides experts, activists and other interested persons with information and analysis on the right to food and on important trends concerning Economic, Social and Cultural rights.
When so many call for inclusion of women and a gender perspective in food security, why is the status of women and girls in terms of food security still not improving?
Heidelberg, 16.08.2011 - With the release of its concluding observations addressed to Nepal, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) asks for a better implementation of women's rights in the country.
Heidelberg, 07.03.2011 – On the centenary of International Women’s Day 2011, FIAN calls for equal land rights for women worldwide. Access to and control over land is one of the most important means for men and women in rural areas to realize their right to food.
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. Where the human right to food is violated or threatened, women and girls are often specifically or more severely affected. Limited access to and control over resources, lower salaries, insecure and unstable labour conditions, gender biased labour markets, discrimination in laws, regulations and programmes, limited enjoyment of the right to education, inadequate public health care, imposed early marriage and pregnancy, and exclusion from decision making processes impair the right to adequate food for women throughout the world. In addition, intra household food discrimination prevails in many regions of the world.
On the occasion of the 43rd session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), FIAN International has prepared a written submission on the Right to Food of Rural and Indigenous Women in Guatemala, which is one of the due reporting countries. The report will be reviewed by CEDAW tomorrow, February 3, 2009.
Few days before March 8th, International Women's Day, women of the international peasants movement La Via Campesina intensified their ongoing struggle against agribusiness and in the defence of food sovereignty. On March 4, 2008, around 900 women pacifically occupied Fazenda Tarumã in the municipality of Rosário do Sul, approximately 400 km away from Porto Alegre, Brazil. The women claim that Fazenda Tarumã of 2.100 hectares was illegally aquired by the transnational company Stora Enso. They demand the expropriation of the land to Agrarian Reform.