UN Panel Discussion on the Human Right to Food and the Global Food Crisis

[Charlotte Scaddan]

The New Human Rights Dialogue Series* Presents:

 The Human Right to Food and the Global Food Crisis:
Root Causes and Responses

                    Panelists:
·        Heather Grady, Realizing Rights
·        Karen Hansen-Kuhn, Action Aid
·        Themba Masuku, FAO
·        Joia Mukharjee, Partners In Health
·        Sanjay Reddy, Columbia University
·        Olivier De Schutter, Special Rapporteur on the right to food
·        Flavio Valente, FIAN International

                          Moderator:
·        Ngonlardje Mbaidjol, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
                       

Friday, 29 August 2008
3:00pm to 6:00pm – Conference Room 2
United Nations, New York

                                                            Sponsored by:

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights,
the Department of Public Information,
the NGO Committee on Human Rights and
the Permanent Missions of Cuba and Malawi

Those without a UN Grounds Pass should contact the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights no later than 25 August 2008, ph: 1 212 963 5931

*A collaborative initiative of Member States, NGOs, the DPI and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the New Human Rights Dialogue Series is a 12-part, monthly series of discussion at United Nations Headquarters, leading up to the celebration on 10 December 2008 of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The series is intended to provide a constructive, open forum to examine & debate new issues, actors, approaches, challenges and opportunities impacting on the realization of our human rights.