Access to justice and the right to food: the way forward 2015, para. 8
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The justiciability debate continues to provoke controversy at the international level. However despite strong opposition from a number of States an Optional Protocol to the Covenant, establishing an individual complaints procedure, was finally adopted in 2008. Its subsequent entry into force in May 2013 was hailed as "potentially one of the most important developments in human rights protection at the UN level in a generation".
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Document type
Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
Topic(s)
Food & Nutrition
Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
N.A.
Year
2015
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Other
Reference
SR Food, Report to the HRC (2015), A/HRC/28/65, para. 8.