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Gazans now make up 80% of all people facing famine or catastrophic hunger worldwide - Anadolu Ajansı

GENEVA (11 January 2024) – UN human rights experts* today welcomed the start of hearings before the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”) of a case brought by South Africa concerning allegations...

A British court has ruled a London-based company that delivered the explosive ammonium nitrate to Beirut's port is liable towards the victims of a devastating 2020 blast, according to Lebanon’s...

Countries defunding UNRWA, the main aid distributer in Gaza, accused of collectively punishing more than 2.2 million Palestinians

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics - The United Nations (UN) Food Systems Summit held in September 2021 has left the world with a jumble of ideas and no clear path forward for...

In the present report, submitted to the Human Rights Council resolution 46/19, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food gives an account of how different forms of violence in food systems harm...

Sovereignty remains a theoretically unclear and politically problematic concept. I find some promise, however, in a practice of sovereignty that operates in spite of lines on a map. My study draws ...

GENEVA (2 November 2023) – Time is running out to prevent genocide and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, UN experts warned today, expressing deep frustration with Israel’s refusal to halt plans to...

Michael Fakhri says Thursday’s meeting will not be promised ‘people’s summit’ on tackling world’s nutrition crisis

Background Violence is endemic across all food systems in times of peace, conflict, and war. In his next report to the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food will focus on...

Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, says the US food system is built on injustices but there is hope where people are prioritizing the right to food

After six months of war in Gaza, famine is imminent. The entire population of around 2.2 million people is affected. The United Nations warns that more than ...

Opinion: A human rights-based investigation by an international body could be the only way Lebanese leaders are held accountable over the largest non-nuclear blast in recent memory, writers UN...

The pre-summit to September’s United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), held in Rome at the end of July 2021, confirmed the fears of a broad range of international actors that [...]More...

Global food systems have been failing most people for a long time, and the COVID-19 pandemic has made a critical situation even worse. 265 million people are threatened by famine, up 50% on last year;

We’re among the thousands boycotting the UN food summit – it’s been hijacked by corporate interests while the voices of small-scale farmers go unheard

The 2021-2022 Centre for Critical International Law (CeCIL) Annual Lecture will be delivered by UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Professor Michael...

Michael Fakhri, U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food, explores why the U.N. Food Systems Summit needs a rethink.

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With COVID, food banks have run short and farmers have dumped milk they could not get to market

Small-scale farmers and Indigenous groups say big ag offers only false and self-interested solutions

A new UN report confirms that global shortages are not simply a result of the war between two major grain producers, but due to the long-standing agribusiness practices of hoarding, speculation and

Nearly 11 months since rival generals declared war in Sudan, UN humanitarians warned on Wednesday that the conflict risks triggering “the world’s worst hunger crisis”.