(18 April 2013) GENEVA – Two United Nations experts on the right to food and foreign debt today raised the alarm over the World Bank-led privatization of the Burundian coffee sector, and called for suspension of the policy pending a full human rights-based impact assessment.
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[23 April 2013] BRUSSELS - On 16 April the Special Rapporteur wrote to the European Commission, the Irish Presidency of the European Union, the permanent representations of EU member states in Geneva, and MEPs, on the subject of EU biofuels policy.
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(4 marzo 2013) GINEBRA – “Compartir el poder con las mujeres es un atajo para reducir el hambre y la malnutrición, y es la medida más eficaz para la realización del derecho a la alimentación”, afirmó el Relator Especial de Naciones Unidas sobre el derecho a la alimentación, Olivier De Schutter, al tiempo que instó a los gobiernos de todo el mundo a adoptar estrategias transformadoras de seguridad alimentaria que afronten las restricciones culturales y redistribuyan los roles entre mujeres y hombres.
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[17 January 2013] BRUSSELS/GENEVA – With a key European Parliament vote only days away, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, urged EU legislators to change the course of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform before development concerns are excluded.
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