Attachments: UN SR
Food Mission to India Report to UN CHR 2006.pdf
WUNRN
Sample gender excerpts from Report:
*Women and children, particularly girl children
also, tend to suffer disproportionately from hunger and malnutrition as a result
of discrimination. Women are particularly vulnerable as a result of social
customs that women should eat last and eat least.
*More than 80% of women, infants, and adolescent
girls suffer from anaemia, and iron intake is estimated to be below 50% of the
daily allowance.
*Nearly 2 million Indian children die each year as
a result of serious malnutrition and preventable diseases.....Nearly a third of
children (30%) are born underweight, which means that their mothers themselves
are also malnourished or undernourished.
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FULL REPORT IS
ATTACHED.
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UNITED NATIONS
Distr.
GENERAL
E/CN.4/2006/44/Add.2
20 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 to food, Jean
Ziegler
Addendum
MISSION TO INDIA
(20 August-2 September 2005)
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FULL REPORT IS ATTACHED.
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