Switzerland

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

• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights – 18th June 1992
• Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women – 23rd Jan 1987 – 27th March 1997
• International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination – 29th Nov 1994
• Convention on the Rights of the Child – 1st May 1991 – 24th Feb 1997
• ILO Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (169) – Not Ratified
• United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – signed

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