Right to food

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from the Food First Information and Action Network (FIAN) International. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Press Release from the Food First Information and Action Network (FIAN) International forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) […]

[RE: AHRC-HAC-008-2009: UPDATE (India): Approximately 83 percent of the children in eight villages of Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh are malnourished] Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding malnourished children in the villages of Java Block, Rewa District. We have found that many children are severely malnourished and the government […]

(2 December 2009) GENEVA – Just days after the World Summit on Food Security in Rome, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food reviews the stakes of the ongoing WTO Ministerial for global food security. According to the UN human rights expert, the trade community should devote the upcoming six months to ensure […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from Janata Vikas Manch and Agragamee. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- A Press Release from Janata Vikas Manch and Agragamee forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) INDIA: Farmers’ Suicides & Mining Scam in Odisha […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) writes to draw your attention to the 22 children who died of malnutrition associated with relevant diseases for past two months in Sidhi district where is highly predominated by tribal communities. According to the report the AHRC received from civil groups including Dalit – Adiwasi Mahapanchaayat, Mahila […]

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to draw your attention to the child malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh. According to the recent report received from Birsa Munda Bhu Adhikar Manch (Birsa Munda Forum for Land Rights) Rewa, MPLSSM and Right to Food Campaign Madhya Pradesh Support Group, about 83 percent of the children belonging […]

Civil society in Orissa is going to hold a public hearing on food security on 21 November. It is organized by Right to Food Campaign Orissa, Focus Orissa, Malkanagiri, OREGS Watch, Water Rights Orissa, KBK Round Table, Samuhik Marudi Praikar Mach, and Janata Vikas Manch. All civil organizations working for tribal rights and rural development […]

E.M. Parvati died yesterday. Parvati was a resident of Belgachhia Bhagar, a municipal dumping ground of Howrah in West Bengal. The doctor who examined Parvati’s body certified that the cause of death was pulmonary tuberculosis aggravated by severe malnourishment and anaemia. Parvati is not the first person in her family to die in this manner. […]

Heidelberg, (17 November, 2009) – The human rights organization FIAN criticized the final declaration of the World Summit on Food Security as a document that presents no and promoting the right to food. “Neither the recognition of the right to food nor the finding that agriculture in countries of the Global South must be promoted […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-224-2009 November 16, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: Civil society demands “food security to all” On November 9 2009, a number of human rights activists working on right to food issues in fourteen districts came to Jaipur, Rajasthan in order to discuss the current food insecurity as […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is writing to draw your attention to the corruption that is excluding the poor from Below the Poverty Line (BPL) family list. BPL families are expected to receive benefits from government programmes guaranteeing the right to food. The human rights organization, SPREAD based in Koraput District, Orissa […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-216-2009 17 October, 2009 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission INDIA: World Food Day and International Day for the Eradication of Poverty: Do not give food, give the ‘right to food’ India is a country moving too slowly to ensure food and health security to malnourished children. The Global Hunger […]

New Delhi, October 15, 2009: On the eve of the World Food Day on October 16th and a day after the apex regulatory body in India gave its clearance for Bt Brinjal as India’s first Genetically Modified (GM) food crop, consumer rights groups and Resident Welfare Associations put out a message urging Delhi’ites to reject […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR) that four-year-old Ibran suffers from Grade IV malnutrition which falls in the category of Severely Acute Malnutrition (SAM). Despite complaints by the human rights activist, the administration has failed to have him treated free of […]

(18 September 2009) GENEVA – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Mr. Olivier De Schutter, argued that “there has not been enough structural change in response to the world food crisis,” as he presented his second report on the emergency to the UN Human Rights Council. Greater emphasis on right to […]

16 September, 2009 We, the undersigned civil groups, are writing to express our serious concern at the lack of a transparent and reasonable mechanism for the minimum food in Hong Kong. As we are all aware, on 2nd September 2009, the Hong Kong SAR government announced that the food allowance, in lieu of free food […]

(Hong Kong, September 17, 2009)  The civil groups in Hong Kong have learned that on September 2, the government released a statement regarding the increasing of the minimum food allowance for foreign domestic workers. We are deeply concerned about absence of a transparent and reasonable mechanism in making this decision. We have written a joint letter to […]

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from human rights groups working in Yahukimo that since January 2009 till now approximately 113 villagers in Yahukimo, Papua, died of hunger associated with diseases. The harvest failure this year caused by climate change resulted in deaths which aggravated lack of food in the […]

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information regarding the deaths of five villagers of hunger from the Hunger Free Bihar Campaign, a human rights group working on right to food in Bihar. According to the report, three of the deceased villagers had not received benefits from the public services to […]

A letter came from the National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRC) postmarked Delhi 14 July 2009 was received by the AHRC. It concerned two complaints regarding children who died of malnutrition in Ambedkar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh in 2007 (for the full text of the letter, please see here). The final conclusion after two year and […]