Nessun diritto al cibo senza diritti per le donne - No right to food and nutrition without women’s rights

Held in parallel to the first yearly UN Human Rights Council session in March and on the occasion of International Women’s Day, the side event “No Right to Food without Women’s Rights: Women Exposing Violations from around the Globe”, will uncover structural barriers that women find in their everyday lives.

Despite calls for the inclusion of women and a gender perspective in food and nutrition security, the status of hunger and malnutrition of women and girls is still not improving. These groups are particularly susceptible to the dominant economic and development model, exploitative of people and natural resources, which coexists with patriarchal policies and practices. With the current trends in global governance weakening the ability of States to comply with their human rights obligations, women’s equal enjoyment of their rights remains unfulfilled and they are denied a life of dignity. 

The event will bring women’s rights activists from around the world together with the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food to discuss common strategies to hold duty bearers accountable. They will present an understanding of the right to food that does not simply reduce women to their role vis-à-vis their children, families and communities, but rather that sees the realization of women’s rights as an end in itself. 

Coming from Guatemala, India, Spain, Togo, and the USA, the participants will delve into the root causes of hunger and malnutrition, in a world where global and national policies seem to maintain poverty circles and increase inequalities. They will speak up for rural and urban women around the world that feel the impact of economic restructuring, migration, unregulated and unsustainable development, and climate change, with grave implications for their human right to adequate food and nutrition.

Organized by a long list of civil society groups and co-sponsored by several countries, the side event will be held between sessions of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) at the centre of global policy making, the Palais des Nations, on International Women’s Day, March 8.

For further information, see flyer.
To register, please contact fyfe@fian.org and visit the latest updates on the event page.