[30 October 2013] GENEVA – The African Union is sending an important signal by using this year’s Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security (Africa Day) to buttress the concept of the “right to adequate food” as an organizing framework for policies and strategies to address food and nutrition insecurity in Africa.

[25 octobre 2013] NEW YORK / GENÈVE– Dans son rapport final à l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies, le Rapporteur spécial de l’ONU sur le droit à l’alimentation, Olivier De Schutter, s’est réjoui aujourd’hui de « la résurgence des droits » qu’il a observée à travers le monde ces dix dernières années.

[26 September 2013] GENEVA – A group of United Nations human rights experts today urged governments worldwide to take into account a set of guidelines on extraterritorial obligations adopted by leading specialists in international law and human rights on 28 September 2011 in Maastricht, the Netherlands: the Maastricht Principles*.

[24 July 2013] BANGKOK – 'Empowering women is a key ingredient to turn the Asian economic boom into winning the battle against malnutrition,' said Olivier De Schutter today in Bangkok, as he launched a new report entitled 'Gender Equality and Food Security – Women’s Empowerment as a Tool Against Hunger'.