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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 – 25th June 1969 – 11th Dec 1978
  • Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women – 17th July 1980 – 23rd July 1991
  • International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination – 24th Oct 1966 – 10th Dec 1971
  • Convention on the Rights of the Child – 26th Jan 1990 – 6th Feb 1995
  • ILO Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (169) – 2nd Feb 1998 and currently in force
  • United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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