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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 – 7th Oct 1976 – 31st Jul 1978
  • Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women – 24th Apr 1980 – 30th July 1980
  • International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination – 24th Aug 1982
  • Convention on the Rights of the Child – 26th Jan 1990 – 21st Sept 1990
  • ILO Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (169) -Not Ratified.
  • United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

 

  • Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 2008 – Ratified 2013

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