Pesticides are not delivering food security and should be phased out: UN rapporteur
The FAO Council should reconsider its agreement with pesticide lobby group CropLife International, according to the UN Rapporteur on the Right ...
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UN expert seeks accountability over 600 dead Indian protestors
A UN special rapporteur has called for accountability in the heavy-handed response to protesting farmers in India. He added that ...
Rapporteur: Business due diligence needed to protect human rights
Businesses should “prevent, address and effectively remedy human rights abuses across their entire supply chains, making the information public through ...
Scientists and academics petition against UN Food Systems Summit
Over 300 scientists and academics are boycotting the UN’s first Food Systems Summit to be held later this year. They’ve ...
UN Food Rapporteur: states must protect citizens from hunger
Covid-19 has caused hunger that will last at least a decade, according to the UN Rapporteur on the Right to ...
Farmers and rights groups boycott food summit
The Guardian reports that hundreds of farmers’ and human rights groups are planning to boycott the United Nations Food Systems ...
Nutrition-specific interventions need to be part of the Food Systems Summit
Filling the Narrative gap at the Food Systems Summit The first time I heard the word advocate was when I ...
Open letter by the UN Food Rapporteur to Agnes Kalibata Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General
Michael Fakhri, Special Rapporteur on the right to food, has written this open letter to Dr Agnes Kalibata, Special Envoy of ...
Free, prior and informed consent required as clean energy threatens Indigenous Peoples
A new coalition of Indigenous Peoples is calling for free, prior and informed consent to be negotiated without exception as...
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