A/HRC/22/50
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
24 December 2012
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-second session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report submitted by the Special Rapporteur on the right to
food, Olivier De Schutter
Women’s rights and the right to food
Summary
In the present report, submitted to the Human Rights Council in accordance with
Council resolution 13/4, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food discusses the threats to
women's right to food, identifying the areas that demand the most urgent attention. The
report examines successively the obstacles women face in access to employment, social
protection and the productive resources needed for food production, food processing and
value chain development. It ends with a recommendation to States to effectively respond to
women and girls‟ needs and priorities in their food security strategies and to relieve
women‟s unpaid work burden in the household, while at the same time address the specific
constraints women face and transforming the existing gendered division of roles.
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