[With a view to respecting, protecting and fulfilling the right to adequate food and nutrition, the Special Rapporteur recommends that:] The empowerment of women be firmly embedded within nutrition strategies, for example by providing paid maternity leave, social recognition of unpaid work, prevention of early and forced marriages and protection of women's sexual and reproductive rights;
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
Person(s) affected
Women
Year
2016
Paragraph type
Conclusion / Recommendation
Reference
SR Food, Report to the UNGA (2016), A/71/282, para. 99k.