‘Keeping the Promise’; UN Secretary-General Releases His MDG Report
On March 16, 2010 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presented his report, entitled "Keeping the Promise", and in his remarks called for the adoption of a global action agenda for accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), when world leaders meet at a UN Summit in New York in September.
[More...]The Road towards a Declaration on Peasants’ Rights in the framework of the Right to Food
On 16 March, the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee presented a "Preliminary study on discrimination in the context of the right to food" to the Human Rights Council. The study presents examples of discrimination in the context of the right to food. It also makes explicit reference to the Declaration of the Rights of Peasants, adopted by La Via Campesina in June 2008.
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