Philippines

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

• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – Signature: 1966, Ratification/Accession: 1974
• Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women  – Signature: 1980, Ratification/Accession: 1981
• International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination – Signature: 1966, Ratification/Accession: 1967
• Convention on the Rights of the Child – Signature: 1990, Ratification/Accession: 1990
• 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)