Olivier De Schutter – The Mail & Guardian

/ 9 May 2008

Top UN human rights forum to examine food crisis

The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a special session on May 23 to examine how the world’s food crisis is undermining the right to food for millions of people, officials said on Friday. The rights to adequate food and freedom from hunger are enshrined in international law as basic, universal human rights.

By Stephanie Nebehay

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/ 2 May 2008

Food crisis: ‘We are paying for 20 years of mistakes’

The United Nations’s new top adviser on food blamed two decades of wrong-headed policies by world powers for the food crisis sweeping the globe in a stinging interview published on his first day in office. Frenchman Olivier de Schutter told <i>Le Monde</i> newspaper the world needed to prepare for the end of "cheap food".

By Staff Reporter