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

  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights –   Signature: NA, Ratification/Accession: 1991               
  • Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women  – Signature: 1991, Ratification/Accession: 1991
  • International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination – Signature: NA, Ratification/Accession: 1971
  • Convention on the Rights of the Child – Signature: 1990, Ratification/Accession: 1990
  • ILO Convention concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (169) – Ratified: 14 Sep 2007
  • United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – Yes

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