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Status of International legal instruments protecting the right to food and nutrition (signatory, ratification):

  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – 30th May 1978; 21st June 1979

  • Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women – 17th July 1980; 25th June 1985

  • International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination – 15th Dec 1995

  • Convention on the Rights of the Child – 21st Sept 1990;  22nd Apr 1994

  • ILO Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (169) – Not Ratified

  • United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – Yes

For more information visit the website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)  

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