Access to justice and the right to food: the way forward 2015, para. 37
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- Quasi-judicial bodies, such as ombudspersons, have the potential to consider cases of human rights violations. However, more often than not, they tend to focus solely on civil and political rights, with few having taken the necessary steps to introduce complaint mechanisms for economic, social and cultural rights. A general lack of awareness by affected populations that such a mechanism for filing a grievance exists has also done little to encourage applications. However there are some examples of progress in this regard, such as the Ombudsman's Office in Ecuador that took the initiative and established a unit for economic, social and cultural rights, while the Procuradoria for Human Rights in Guatemala has been submitting reports on the right to food since 2007, in line with its Food and Nutrition Security Law of 2005.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Food & Nutrition
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2015
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Food, Report to the HRC (2015), A/HRC/28/65, para. 37.
- Paragraph number
- 37
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