Attachments: UN
SR Food Report to CHR 2006.pdf
WUNRN
Website Link to the Mandate of the United Nations Special
Rapporteur on the Right to Food:
RIGHT TO FOOD
The right to food is a human right and is a
binding obligation well-established under international law, recognised in the
Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, as
well as a plethora of other instruments.
The right to food has also been recognised in numerous national
constitutions. The right to food has been well defined in the General
Comment No. 12 of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights. This defines the right to
food as :
“the right of every man, woman and child alone and in community
with others to have physical and economic access at all times to adequate food
or means for its procurement in ways consistent with human
dignity.”
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Excerpt from recent gender, hunger, poverty, news
story:
Kenya: Drought, Poverty Forcing Young Women Into Risky
Commercial Sex
March 29, 2006
"Because food reserves have run out and mothers can no
longer afford to feed their children, many decide that the only way out is to
'go to the street'," said Iris Krebber, regional coordinator of the NGO, German
Agro Action. "Many times, the girls are as young as twelve."
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From Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food,
to the UN Commission on Human Rights 2006:
"It is the Special Rapporteur's duty to report to the
Commission that the number of victims of hunger is continuing to
increase...............Despite progress in some countries, global hunger is on
the rise."
"According to UNICEF, more than 90 million children suffer
from an acute stage of malnutrition, and most of them are born underweight.
Undernourishment in the womb condemns these children to a life of stunted mental
and physical development, a life in which they will not be able to concentrate
even if they can go to school, a life in which they are condemned to be the
poorest of the poor even when they become adults........"
"More than 400 million children also do not have access to
clean drinking water, leaving them so vulnerable to water-borne disease, that
many do not live to see their fifth birthday. Many girls never get to school
because they are forced to spend the whole day walking long distances to collect
water for their families."............................Since the Special
Rapporteur's mandate includes drinking water as an essential part of healthy
nutrition, the Special Rapporteur has also worked to promote understanding that
the right to water is a human right."
FULL REPORT IS ATTACHED.
Distr.
GENERAL
E/CN.4/2006/44
16 March 2006
Original:
ENGLISH | |
Economic and Social
Council
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Sixty-second session
Item 10 of the provisional agenda
ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
RIGHTS
The right to
food
Report of the Special Rapporteur on
the right t food, Jean Ziegler*
*The reason for the late submission of
this report is to reflect the latest information.
GE.06-11882 (E)
270306
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FULL REPORT IS
ATTACHED.
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