UNA PLATAFORMA PARA UNIR LAS LUCHAS POR TODOS LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS

• Anti-discrimination laws at national level

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  Seen in article 1 of the Dutch constitution

  • the Equal Treatment Act
  • the Equal Treatment of Disabled and Chronically Ill People Act
  • the Equal Treatment in Employment (Age Discrimination) Act
  • the Equal Treatment (Men and Women) Act
  • The Municipal Antidiscrimination Services Act

   

  These acts protect against discrimination based on the following:

  • race
  • sex
  • hetero- or homosexual orientation
  • political opinion
  • religion
  • belief
  • disability or chronic illness
  • civil status
  • age
  • nationality
  • working hours (full time or part time)
  • type of contract (temporary or permanent)

• To what extent are rural communities shrinking

  
  % of population living in rural areas Read more
  10%

• Laws protecting industrial seeds

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  Privatised seeds:

  • Cant harvest and sow them
  • Cant give them as a gift
  • Cant harvest and sell them
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  Upon infringement:

  • Can be seized and destroyed
  • For some species.
  • Can be fined and jailed

   

  Inspection can be done by the private sector.

  Local seeds can be discovered by privatized organisms.

   
• Pesticide use by volume and by expenditure

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  • Fungicides and Bactericides: 4306.92
  • Herbicides: 2766.24
  • Insecticides: 266.89

   

Participation is one of the fundamental human rights principles, requiring that everyone has the right to participate in making decisions that affect them. In order to ensure that those most affected by violations to the right to food and nutrition participate in political processes, it is essential to have the legal and policy infrastructure within national frameworks, as well as the participatory spaces that give meaningful space for participation.

• Legal Recognition of the Right to Food and Nutrition

  
  Is Right to Food recognized in the legal system Read more

  Constitutional Recognition

  There is an implicit recognition of the right to adequate food.

  Article 20: 
  “1. It shall be the concern of the authorities to secure the means of subsistence of the population and to achieve the distribution of wealth; 
  3. Dutch nationals resident in the Netherlands who are unable to provide for themselves shall have a right, to be regulated by Act of Parliament, to aid from the authorities.”

  National Status of International obligation

  Article 93: “Provisions of treaties and of resolutions by international institutions which may be binding on all persons by virtue of their contents shall become binding after they have been published.” 

  Article 94: “Statutory regulations in force within the Kingdom shall not be applicable if such application is in conflict with provisions of treaties that are binding on all persons or of resolutions by international institutions.”

  Excerpt from Shadow report on RTFN: “Nowhere in Dutch law and policy the right to food is recognized as human right. The Netherlands’ approach to economic, social and cultural rights is frozen in time. Dutch legal doctrine still adheres to the ancient dichotomy between civil and political (‘classic’) rights on the one hand and economic, social and cultural (‘social’) rights on the other hand. Doctrine sees classic human rights as bringing negative obligations that can be upheld in a court of law and social human rights as bringing positive obligations that cannot be upheld in a court of law, but represent policy objectives only. In the mid 1970s Dutch parliament discussed ratification of ICESCR. In those discussions, the Government took the position that given the character and content of the provisions of the ICESCR there will not be direct effect. Rather, it is geared towards progressive realization through legislation and implementing measures.2 Until this very day courts refer to this position of the government and apply it to the letter. The official UN interpretations to UN treaties as laid down in the General Comments and in the reports by the special rapporteurs on the right to food, are blatantly ignored.” (abstract from a 2009 shadow report on the right to food Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by the European Institute of Food Law.  [1]

   

  [1] http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CESCR/Shared%20Documents/NLD/INT_CE...
• National Food Security Policy

  
  Is there a national food security policy with implementation/action? Read more

  Food security as an important part of their agenda in 2012-2015

  Four main objectives:

  • increased sustainable agricultural production,
  • access to better nutrition,
  • more efficient markets, and
  • a better business climate

   

  Budget:

  The policy letter indicated that the total annual direct expenditure on food security is expected to rise from €160 million in 2011 to €435 million in 2015. About one third of the budget for food security (operational objective 4.1) will be used for private sector development. On the other hand, part of the budget for private sector development (operational objective 4.3), growing from 335 m€ in 2011 to an expected 434 m€ in 2015, will contribute to food security. It is thus expected that some projects will have food security as explicit objective, with impact hopefully measureable in 2015, while other projects will have business climate and private sector development as preconditions for food security, as explicit objectives, of which the food security impact may not be measureable in 2015.  

  There is an overall focus on the consumption as well as the access and gaining availability through production. 

  Yes, since a couple of years the Dutch government (mostly Economic Affairs and Foreign Affairs) publishes a policy letter on food security with a focus on the international level, the most recent one in November 2014. Food security is also regularly discussed in dedicated meetings between MPs and the minister of Foreign Trade and Development. Although mostly about food security, the right to food was also mentioned in the last policy letter. [1] 

  In 2013, a brochure on food security was published by the ministry of Foreign Affairs. [2] 

   

  [1] http://www.tweedekamer.nl/vergaderingen/commissievergaderingen/details?i...

  [2] https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/ontwikkelingssamenwerking/docum...
• Existence of multiactor governing or decision making bodies for food policy at national, subnational and/or local level with diverse participation of civil society organizations

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  No national food policy, but the influential governmental research commission WRR has urged the Dutch government to establish one in 2014. [1]

  On the local level, Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Almere and Den Bosch have worked on urban food strategies/policies.

   

  Land:

  Acting on the recommendations of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests of 2012, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs initiated the Land Governance Multi Stakeholder Dialogue (LG MSD) in August 2014. The goal of this dialogue between financial institutions, industry, NGOs, knowledge institutions, and government, was to determine how to contribute effectively to the improvement of land governance in countries of the ‘global South’ where the Netherlands is active.

   

  [1] http://www.wrr.nl/fileadmin/nl/publicaties/PDF-Rapporten/WRR_rapport_93_...