15/10/2019
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On the occasion of World Food Day, the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition launches "Women’s Power in Food Struggles"
21/11/2022
As competition to control the world’s water resources increases the 2022 Right to Food and Nutrition Watch calls for global fisheries governance that recognizes small-scale fishers as custodians of water ecosystems and protects their rights from the onslaught of extractive industries and other commercial interests.
15/10/2019
Women Challenging the Food Systems Worldwide more
On the occasion of World Food Day, the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition launches "Women’s Power in Food Struggles"
11/10/2019
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In the heart of Northern Syria , rising from the ruins, there is an ecological village built by and for women of diverse backgrounds and faiths. With their bare hands they build their homes, their schools, and their farms. Amidst the vi olence, these w omen creat e a peaceful place for themselves and their children , free from the oppression of patriarchy, and in respect with nature. This is just one example from this year's Right to Food and Nutrition Watch (hereinafter, the Watch ) , as it continues to support the struggles of small - scale producers and those most affected by hunger and malnutrition.
11/10/2019
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In 2018, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UN CSW 62) "reaffirm[ed] the right to food and recogniz[ed] the crucial contributions of rural women to local and national economies and to food production and to achieve food security and improved nutrition, in particular in poor and vulnerable households". UN CSW 62 further called on States "to strengthen and build the resilience and adaptive capacity of all rural women and girls to respond to and recover from economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters, humanitarian emergencies and the adverse impacts of climate change".
11/10/2019
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In the current global context, discrimination is used as a tool to preserve and support authoritarian and far-right political movements. Immigrants and refugees are denied their legal right to asylum, human rights defenders are murdered, and civil society is criminalized with complete impunity.