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Interim report of the Special Rapporteur on the right
to food
Summary
The present report outlines the contours of an emerging global right to food
movement, focused over the past 10 years on the practical aspects of realizing the
right to adequate food through appropriate legal, policy and institutional frameworks.
The report takes stock of important progress made since the 1996 World Food Summit,
highlighting emerging best practices and the role of key actors: Governments,
Parliaments, courts, national human rights institutions, civil society organizations and
social movements. A growing number of national right to food framework laws
combined with rights-based national strategies seek to coordinate efforts across
multiple sectors, improve accountability, and enable the participation of civil society
and those affected by hunger and malnutrition in decision-making and the monitoring
of results. At the same time, social protection systems are being redefined in terms of
rights, moving away from the conception of social benefits as charitable handouts.
Courts and other forms of grievance redress mechanisms, such as social audits, are
playing an instrumental role in bringing about this change.
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