The New Right to Food and Nutrition WATCH 2009: Who controls the governance of the World Food System?
The Geneva Press Club - Club suisse de
la Presse, has the pleasure to invite the international, the Swiss
press and its members to a press conference on the topic.
With
Mr. Eric Sottas
Secretary
General,
World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
Ms.
Ester Wolf
Policy Advisor, Right to Food, Bread for all
(Pain
pour le prochain/Brot für alle)
Mon 12th October 2009 at 2p.m.
«At la Pastorale» Route de Ferney
106, Geneva
For the first time in history, the
number of undernourished people in the world has surpassed the tragic
figure of 1 billion. The gap between promises and reality is
increasing as the international community and national governments
are painfully far from realising the World Food Summit targets to
halve the proportion of chronically hungry people in the world by the
year 2015. It is clear that the global governance of the World Food
System needs to be remodelled in order to effectively overcome hunger
and its causes.
On the occasion of World Food Week
2009, the World Organisation Against Torture and the Ecumenical
Advocacy Alliance invite you to the launch of the new issue of the
Right to Food and Nutrition WATCH. This year’s edition focuses on
the question of “Who controls the governance of the world food
system?” – a burning issue in light of the current World Food
Crisis.
The WATCH, available in three
languages, is a common endeavor of a Consortium of human rights
organisations, social movements and development agencies and aims to
put public pressure on policy makers at the national and
international level to take the human right to food serious, and to
provide a systematic compilation of best practices for the
realisation of the right to food, while documenting where violations
take place.
The press meeting will be followed by a
drink. I look forward to seeing you at this occasion.
Guy Mettan, Director Executive