Integrating a gender perspective in the right to food 2016, para. 3
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Notwithstanding the legal framework designed to protect them, women experience poverty and hunger at disproportionate levels. Institutionalized gender discrimination and violence still impose barriers that prevent women from enjoying their economic, social and cultural rights and specifically the right to adequate food and nutrition, and the status of women and girls has not substantially improved, despite recurrent calls for the inclusion of a gender perspective to development programs and to social policies.
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)
Equality & Inclusion
Food & Nutrition
Gender
Health
Poverty
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Year
2016
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Food, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/31/51, para. 3.