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• About
  • Tribunal Standing Members
  • A people’s tribunal in practice
• Right to Food
  • Concept of the Right to Food
  • Special Rapporteur
    • Extract of Reports of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food
    • UN Special Rapporteur's Report to UNCHR: New Developments Offer Hope for the Right to Food
  • Commission on Human Rights resolution 2000/10
• Archives
  • Hunger Alerts
    • 2010 Hunger Alerts
    • 2009 Hunger Alerts
    • 2008 Hunger Alerts
    • 2007 Hunger Alerts
    • 2006 Hunger Alerts
    • 2005 Hunger Alerts
    • 2004 Hunger Alerts
  • AHRC statements on right to food
    • INDIA: Diarrhea and cholera are social disasters in Orissa
    • INDIA: Country rotten with rotting food grains
    • [AHRC Joint Statement] HONG KONG: Transparent and reasonable mechanism for minimum food allowance for foreign domestic workers needed to ensure right to adequate food
    • INDIA: The National Human Rights Commission of India must conduct an objective and scientific investigation to make a fair conclusion and recommendation
    • INDIA: What the administration has failed to accomplish in the past 35 years
    • [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] INDIA: Malnutrition death and poor status of child health services in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
    • [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] INDIA: The treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) children in Madhya Pradesh – Suggestions for the policy
    • AHRC Forwarded Press Release] WORLD: "The Global Food Crisis is not over. Our obligations go beyond fixing the financial system," says UN Special Rapporteur
    • [AHRC Forwarded Press Release] WORLD: World Food Summit to focus on the Human Right to Food
    • INDIA: Tribes, living in stigma and starvation
    • [AHRC Forwarded Press Release] WORLD: UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to food recommends principles and measures to discipline "land grabbing"
    • [ALRC Statement] INDIA: Rights to health and food - destined to die because of neglect
    • INDIA: Hard-won ration cards for bereaved parents: a sign of change or pure political posturing?
    • PAKISTAN: Lift Swat Curfew for Trapped Civilians Food, Water, Medicine Running Out in Conflict Zone
    • [AHRC Forwarded Statement] ASIA: Rural and Indigenous Women Claim our Right to Food!
    • INDIA: Food security is a key for preventing Tuberculosis in India
    • ASIA: Interactive dialogue with the Special Procedures on the right to food and to adequate housing
    • PHILIPPINES: Mining or Food?
    • PHILIPPINES: Day 7-8: Farmers march, prays at historic places of land struggle
    • PHILIPPINES: Day 6: Urban poor shares farmer's plight on land struggle
    • PHILIPPINES: Day 5: Farmers takes grievance at the heart of regime's power
    • PHILIPPINES: Day 4: Run, hunger strike physically costly to farmers
    • PHILIPPINES: Day 3: Farmers run against landlords
    • PHILIPPINES: Day 2: Solo protest seeks land reform extension
    • PHILIPPINES: Day 1: Farmers run and go on hunger strike against losing lands
    • [AHRC Forwarded Open Letter] INDIA: An Mutinational Cooperation (MNC)'s GM Corn field trial in the state of Madhya Pradesh
    • INDIA: Civil society demands "food security to all"
    • INDIA: World Food Day and International Day for the Eradication of Poverty: Do not give food, give the 'right to food'
    • Right to food statement 2010
    • Right to statement 2009
  • Articles
    • SOUTH KOREA: The livelihoods of elderly market tenants are in danger due to administrative neglect
    • PHILIPPINES: Negros and its people through my eyes--inequality before the law (Part 4)
    • PHILIPPINES: Negros and its people through my eyes--language is their freedom (Part 3)
    • PHILIPPINES: Negros and its people through my eyes--control begins at childhood (Part 2)
    • PHILIPPINES: Negros Island and its people through my eyes (Part 1)
    • SOUTH KOREA / INDIA: POSCO should take responsibility for the violent and bloody suppression of villagers protesting their steel plant project in Orissa, India
    • Hong Kong's invisible quarter million
    • Hungry Cinderellas in Hong Kong
    • Small hands, big work: Girl domestic servants in Karachi
    • The politics of starvation in Bangladesh
    • 'Emergency relief' fails to prevent child starvation in India
    • Civil society groups urge President Obama, Congress to curb food speculation and fight global hunger
    • Filipino farmers commit to 10 days of running and hunger strike to protest losing their land
    • The spread of tuberculosis amongst Varanasi’s out-of-work weavers
    • INDIA: Bonded for life: Anantiah's story
    • SOUTH KOREA: No country for the poor
    • PHILIPPINES: Filipino workers' worthless healthcare
    • PHILIPPINES: I'm Filipino, not a disease carrier
    • INDIA: Letter To Little Jigar
    • INDIA: Uttar Pradesh Is Not Somalia, Is It?
    • BURMA: Crying Shame After Cyclone
    • BURMA: The Catastrophe Continues
    • BURMA: Worst Ever Response To A Disaster
    • India: Starving to Death in Uttar Pradesh
    • India: Starving to Death, Begging for Life
    • India: A Model Village Where People Starve To Death
    • India: Criminal Apathy And Political Corruption Leads To Starvation
    • India: Murshidabad’s Starving Masses
  • Government response to the case
    • Response to the case reported in 2010
    • Response to the cases reported in 2009
    • Response to the cases reported before 2009
  • AHRC Letter to the government
    • Letter to the MP HRC and NHRC on AHRC-HAC-003-2010
• Photo & Story from the field
  • India
    • Hungry Children
    • Bonded Labour
    • Handloom Weavers
    • Dalits and the poor in Gujarat
    • Property Rights and Land Grabbing
  • Burma
  • Philippines
  • Bangladesh
• Country
  • India
• Report
  • UN Submissions by AHRC
    • Written Submission to UNCHR: Food Scarcity in Myanmar [2001]
    • Written Submission to UNCHR: Starvation deaths ongoing due to administrative neglect, INDIA [2008]
    • Written Submission to the UN on Right to Food_2010
  • UN Reports
    • Report of the Special Rapporteur: The Right to Food (Feb 2008)
    • Report of the Special Rapporteur: The Right to Food (Jan 2008)
    • Report of the Special Rapporteur: Right to Housing (Feb 2008)
    • Report of the Independent Expert on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty (Feb 2008)
    • Report of the Special Rapporteur: The Right to Food (Jan 2007)
    • Report of the Special Rapporteur: The Right to Food, Mission to Bangladesh (Oct 2003)
    • Report of the Special Rapporteur: The Right to Food (March 2006)
    • Note by the Secretary-General to the General Assembly: The Right to Food (Sep 2004)
    • Report of the Special Rapporteur: The Right to Food, Mission to India (March 2006)
    • Report of the Special Rapporteur: The Right to Food (Feb 2004)
    • The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2006
    • Voluntary Guidelines adopted by the FAO Council (Nov 2004)
    • Report of the Committe on World Food Security (Sep 2004)
    • Report of the Special Rapporteur: Right to Health (Jan 2007)
    • Report of the Special Rapporteur: Right to Health (March 2006)
    • Summary of Communications of Special Rapporteur: Right to Health (Feb 2007)
    • Summary of Communications of Special Rapporteur: Right to Health (Dec 2005)
    • Note by the Secretary General to the General Assembly: Right to Health (August 2007)
    • Note by the Secretary General to the General Assembly: Right to Health (Sep 2006)
    • Extract of Reports of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food [2003]
    • UN Special Rapporteur's Report to UNCHR: New Developments Offer Hope for the Right to Food [2003]
    • Report of the Special Rapporteur: The Right to Food (Jan 2003)
    • Report of the Special Rapporteur: The Right to Food (Jan 2002)
    • Report of the Special Rapporteur: The Right to Food (Jan 2001)
    • The State of Food Insecurity in the World_FAO_2009
    • Women and the Right to Food - International law and state practice (2008, FAO)
    • The UN Advisory Committee on Right to Food_16th HRC Session Report_Dec 2010
    • UN SR on the Right to Food Report for 16th HRC Session_Dec 2010
  • NGO Reports
    • Right to Food General
    • India
    • Bangladesh
    • Philippines
    • Nepal
    • Indonesia
    • Burma (Myanma)
• International standards
  • folder
  • Article 11, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
  • General Comment No. 06: The right to life (1982)
  • Universal Declaration on the Eradication of Hunger and Malnutrition (1974)
  • Article 6, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
  • Convention on the Rights of the Child_Articles 24, 27, 32
  • Programme of Action of the World Summit for Social Development: eradication of poverty (1996, Copenhagen)
  • General Comment No. 4: The Right to Adequate Housing (1991)
  • General Comment No.12: THe right to adequate food (1999)
  • General Comment No.15: The right to water (2002)
  • General Comment No. 4: The right to adequate housing: forced evictions (1997)
  • Voluntary Guildeline_UN FAO_2004
• Jurisprudence
  • India
    • The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976
    • Indian Public Health Standard for the Public Health Centres
    • The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005
    • The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989
    • The Essential Commodities Act, 1955
    • Public Food Distribution Scheme of INDIA
    • The Right to Information Act, 2005
    • The Order of the Supreme Court of India on Intergrated Child Development Scheme
    • Supreme Court Order on right to food_2005
    • Prevention of Corruption Act 1988
    • Code of Criminal Procedure 1973
    • Wildlife Protection Act 1972
  • Indonesia
    • Act of the Republic of Indonesia Number 7 of 1996 on Food
  • Other Countries
    • BRAZIL - National Food and Nutritional Security Framework Law
    • GUATEMALA - Law on National Food and Nutritional Security System
    • MEXICO - Law on Food Security and Nutrition
    • TANZANIA - Food Security Act
  • Bangladesh
    • Bangladesh Constitution
  • Philippines
    • Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988