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INDIA - REPORT SUBMITTED TO CEDAW
COMMITTEE BY FIAN ON THE RIGHT TO ADEQUATE FOOD FOR WOMEN OF INDIA
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For the 58th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in early July 2014, FIAN has submitted a report addressing the need to guarantee the right to adequate food of women in India.
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Link to Full 11-Page 2014 Report: http://www.fian.org/fileadmin/media/publications/CEDAW_paralell_report_India_2014.pdf
The report submitted for the fourth
and fifth reviews of India by the CEDAW Committee outlines the main obstacles
Indian women face when attempting to realize their right to adequate food.
Based on the principle that India's national legal framework obliges India to
ensure its citizens are free from hunger, FIAN recommends the State of
India to adopt all necessary measures to fulfill women's right to adequate food
as laid out in the Constitution of India, by:
- improving women's participation and ensuring their
active and meaningful role in political and public life;
- ensuring equal rights in education and employment
opportunities for women;
- ensuring adequate access to health and nutrition for
women and girls;
- ensuring the full realization of rural women's right to
adequate food and related human rights; and
- complying with its extraterritorial obligations
regarding the women of the Lakshmanpur case in Nepal, in light of the
Maastricht principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States in the
area of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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