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27/12/2020
Worker union’s campaign leads to passage of law vs subcontracting in Germany’s pandemic-hit meat industry
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A worker union’s campaign to end labor abuse and exploitation in Germany’s pandemic-plagued meat industry has led to the passage of a law against subcontracting.
INDICATORS
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Non discrimination
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General Equal Treatment Act of 2006
- Transposed all four equality directives of the EU into one law.
- Gender, race and ethnicity, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation,
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Outcomes
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People’s Sovereignty over natural resources
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Privatised seeds:
- Farmers can harvest and sow them again with restrictions
- Can’t harvest and sell them
- Can be used to breed new ones
- Extends to similar pre existing varieties.
Infringement of rules:
- Can be seized
- Can be destroyed
- Harvest can be seized
- Product made from harvest seized
- Can be fined
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- Fungicides and Bactericides: 10109.60
- Herbicides: 17858.90
- Insecticides: 1095.50
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Political Participation for the Right to Food
Participation is one of the fundamental human rights principles, requiring that everyone has the right to participate in making decisions that affect them. In order to ensure that those most affected by violations to the right to food and nutrition participate in political processes, it is essential to have the legal and policy infrastructure within national frameworks, as well as the participatory spaces that give meaningful space for participation.
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Legal Recognition of the Right to Food and Nutrition
Is Right to Food recognized in the legal system Read moreGermany has directive principles that contribute to the realization of the right to adequate food. [Party to the ICESC 1973 by ratification]
Constitutional Recognitions of the Right to adequate food
Directive Principles of state policy
Article 1:”The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of every community, of peace and justice in the world.”
National Status of International Obligations
Article 25: “The general rules of international law shall be an integral part of federal law. They shall take precedence over the laws and directly create rights and duties for the inhabitants of the federal territory.”
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National Food Security Policy
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Existence of multiactor governing or decision making bodies for food policy at national, subnational and/or local level with diverse participation of civil society organizations
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