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Courts: Reparation and redress of right to adequate food and water alleged violation cases.

  • In Brazil, there are several recourse mechanisms which mandate includes the analysis of human right to adequate food violation allegations, but without a clear mandate to repair and redress when needed
    • National Rapporteurship on the Rights to food, land and territory, linked to the Brazilian Platform for Economic,, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights.
    • State PublicMinistry Prosecutors
    • Federal Public Ministry Prosecutors
    • National Commission for the Monitoring of Right to Adequate Food Violations – linked to the National Human Rights Council.
  • Several cases were brought to the attention of public officials through the joint action of the National Rapporteurship and the State and Federal Public Ministries. Some conflicts and situations were object of negotiations and advocacy and there were some advances. But no effective reparation of documented violations took place, only quasi judicial conflict resolution.
  • One case was taken to court , through a Public Civil Action developed by the State Public Ministry of Alagoas. The case dealt with the proposal of the municipality to evict a set of communities of fisherfolkfrom the margins of a lagoon, in downtown Maceio, capital of the State of Alagoas/Brazil, to establish a urbanization/tourist site. The PCA demanded that the municipality should remove the communities to housing complexes which should have all the basic public services (water and sanitation, school, day care center, transportation and the fisher folk should be removed to an area close to a lagoon. The case was won in court and an appeal was also defeated. The initiative came to a stand still due to serious issues in the joint implementation by the three levels of government.(municipal, state, federal) see more in: . ftp://ftp.fao.org/upload/eims_object/Photo_library/ACP%20SURURU%20DEFINITIVA.pdf
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