A/69/275
Interim report of the Special Rapporteur on the right
to food
Summary
The present report, submitted in accordance with General Assembly resol ution
68/177, constitutes the first report to the General Assembly of the new Special
Rapporteur on the right to food. The report sets forth some of the issues the Special
Rapporteur intends to focus on during her tenure. In particular she intends to:
(a) explore the obstacles faced by those wishing to seek remedy for violations related
to the right to food by analysing the current international legal framework and
identifying examples of good practice as a means of encouraging States to develop
judicial remedies in accordance with the Optional Protocol to the International
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; (b) reaffirm the key role played
by women in ensuring food security by addressing gender gaps related to equal
assets and productive resources; analysing the effect of unpaid care work on
women’s right to food; and considering the need for mainstreaming gender in all
legislative frameworks, programmes and policies related to food security and
nutrition; (c) focus on the nutritional dimension of national food policies and
development strategies, as a means of promoting access to healthy and nutritious
foods and tackling the effects of undernutrition on the most vulnerable, particularly
children aged under five; (d) prioritize, as a cross-cutting issue, the relationship
between climate change, the right to food and the post-2015 sustainable development
agenda; (e) address the need to review international food systems as a means of
improving sustainable production and consumption by way of reducing food waste;
and (f) consider the impact of protracted conflicts and emergency situations on the
right to food.
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