The Launch of the GLOBAL NETWORK FOR THE RIGHT TO FOOD AND NUTRITION
A Call for Action! Founding members of the Global network will explain the need for such an initiative based on their experiences in the local, national and global struggles to fight violations of the Right to Food and Nutrition. The charter, priorities and added value of this new network will be shared and discussed with interested public. The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, will comment on “Scaling-Up Right to Adequate Food Accountability - The Role of Civil Society”.
24 June 2013, 7:00 to 9:30 pm
Center for International Development, Vienna
Sensengasse 3, 1090 Wien
After two years of consultation, the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition will be publicly launched on the occasion of the Vienna + 20 conferences. The network is an initiative of public interest civil society organizations and social movements (peasants, fisherfolk, pastoralists, landless people, consumers, urban people living in poverty, agricultural and food workers, women, youth, and indigenous peoples) which recognizes the need to act jointly for the realization of the human right to adequate food and nutrition. The Network opens a space for dialogue and mobilization of its members to hold States accountable for their obligations to realize this right; it supports the struggles of social movements and groups fighting against the violation of this right; it supports and does its best to protect human rights defenders against repression, violence and criminalization; and it moves to end the impunity of state-condoned violations and of non-state human rights abusers.
The event will count with the presence of the following members of the Network: Monikka Agarwal, World Alliance of Mobile and Indigenous Peoples (WAMIP); Rehema Bavuma, World Forum of Fish Workers and Fish Harvesters (WFF); Yves Berthelot, World Organization against Torture (OMCT); Svetlana Boincean, International Union of Food Workers;Carolin Callenius, Brot für die Welt; Christine Campeau, Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA); Laia Fargas Fursa, Observatori DESC; Manigueuigdinapi Jorge Stanley Icaza, International Indian Treaty Council (IITC); Herman Kumara, World Forum of Fisher People (WFFP); Lida Lhotska, International Baby Food Action Nefiatwork (IBFAN); Javier Mujica Petit, Plataforma Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Democracia y Desarrollo (PIDHDD); Biraj Patnaik, Right to Food Campaign India; Claire Quenum, African Right to Food Network (ANoRF); Claudio Schuftan (Peoples’ Health Movement); and Flavio Valente, FIAN International.
Languages: English, with simultaneous interpretation to Spanish and French; interventions in French or Spanish will be translated consequently into English.
For further information, please contact Martin Wolpold-Bosien at wolpold-bosien@fian.org
