Integrating a gender perspective in the right to food 2016, para. 12
Paragraph- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Paragraph text
- Girls and women suffer from discrimination in relation to their right to food at all stages in life. In many countries, females receive less food than their male partners, due to a lower social status. In extreme cases, a preference for male children may lead to female infanticide, including by deprivation of food. Some mothers stop breastfeeding girls prematurely in order to try and get pregnant with a male, which could increase risks of infection and other risks if impure water is used with formula. Similar discrimination applies to older women who tend to be less literate than older men, in many parts of the world; this limits women's employability, participation and voice in community development activities and makes them less likely to be able to provide for themselves.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Procedures: Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Food & Nutrition
- Gender
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Girls
- Older persons
- Women
- Year
- 2016
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Food, Report to the HRC (2016), A/HRC/31/51, para. 12.
- Paragraph number
- 12
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