Friday: Live web-cast discussion on Right to Food

Aerial art demanding world leaders take action on the global food crisis in July.

Throughout the year, global citizen's have called on world leaders to take action to address the global food crisis. Yet a multitude of high level meetings, from the Rome Conference on World Food Security to the UN General Assembly meeting and G-8 Summit this July, have failed to address the crisis from a human rights perspective. People around the world continue to bear the burden of rising food costs; while root causes of the crisis remain unaddressed.

This Friday, from 3-6pm New York Time (starting at 19:00 GMT), Every Human Has Rights partners ActionAid with Karen Hansen-Kuhn and Realizing Rights with Heather Grady, join the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, and others to discuss a human rights approach to ending the food crisis. The event is titled 'The Human Right to Food and the Global Food Crisis: Root Causes and Responses'.

• You can listen in, as the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights brings this discussion to you live via web-cast during the event, and as archived video on the UN web cast web page thereafter.

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Panelists will address the global food crisis and its roots; the right to food and policy choices; accountability and remedies for violations to the right to food; progress and challenges ahead; and the role of international trade regimes and international human rights law.

In case you miss it, we will post a recap of the event on the 'Campaign News' section of everyhumanhasrights.org; but we hope you can join us live for this important discussion on the right to food.

Learn more about the right to food at our 'Right to Freedom from Hunger' Theme Page.