This seminar brings together social movements,
networks, civil society organizations and academics concerned about different
aspects of food systems.
The goal is to discuss the main challenges,
from a human rights, women’s rights and food sovereignty perspective, in
corporate-dominated food systems and production models that undermine access to
natural resources and livelihoods of small-scale food producers, lead to
eco-destruction and loss of biodiversity, and impede the realization of the
right to adequate food and nutrition. At the core of the seminar is the
question of how social struggles can be unified and how joint strategies
towards sustainable and rights-based food systems could be developed. The role
of human rights as tools for rolling back corporate control over food systems
will be another important subject for discussion next week, in particular the
Extraterritorial Obligations (ETOs) of States, including global food and
nutrition governance.
The seminar takes place during the last week of the 26th session
of the UN Human Rights Council, in which Member States will decide on the
setting up of an open-ended intergovernmental working group to create an international treaty to
address corporate human rights abuses.
It is also part of the “Week of Mobilization to
Stop Corporate Crimes and Impunity” in Geneva
organized by the Treaty Alliance, a global coalition of social movements,
networks and civil society organizations calling for an end to corporate human
rights abuses.
More information
SIGN joint statement
calling for a U.N. binding treaty to end corporate human rights abuses
Visit
the Treaty Alliance website
See calendar of events
for the Week of Mobilization in Geneva (Switzerland)
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