Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2008
The World Food Crisis and The Right to Food
National and global political decisions that fail to take the human rights obligations of states and intergovernmental organisations into account are the main reasons why hunger still persists. One of the most essential instruments to increase public pressure with which it is possible to hold governments and intergovernmental bodies accountable for their policies and programmes is the establishment of monitoring tools to check that states meet their obligations to respect, protect and fulfil the human right to adequate food of every person globally.
Therefore, the intention of creating the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch is to establish a new monitoring tool in the form of an international periodical review that monitors state actors’ actions or non-actions related to the realisation or non-realisation of the right to food. Published annually, the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch will not only put pressure on policy makers at the national and international level to take the human right to food into account, but it will also provide a systematic compilation showing where the best practices are used as well as where violations of the right to food are committed.
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