Assessing a decade of progress on the right to food 2013, para. 53
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- The mobilization of civil society and social movements has played a key role in support of the legal developments described in the present report. The 2011 reform that led to the insertion of the right to food in the Constitution of Mexico followed 20 years of advocacy by civil society groups, initiated in 1992 when 130 organizations forming the Mexican Front for the Right to Food presented to the national Chamber of Deputies a petition for the constitutional recognition of the right to food; the same coalition is now actively preparing a food and nutrition security framework law. Similarly, in Brazil, the proposal that led to the 2010 constitutional amendment recognizing the right to food was initially presented by a member of Parliament in 2003 and subsequently promoted by the President of the national Parliamentary Front for Food and Nutrition Security, Mr. José Nazareno Fonteles, with the support of various civil society organizations. In India, the right to food case before the Supreme Court led to the emergence of a broad network of individuals and organizations, the Right to Food Campaign, which has played an essential role in providing the court with information about the implementation of social programmes and in monitoring compliance with its orders.
- 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
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Food, Report to the UNGA (2013), A/68/288, para. 53.
- Paragraph number
- 53
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