“In a world
overflowing with riches,
it is an outrageous scandal that more than 1 billion people suffer from
hunger
and malnutrition and that every year over 6 million children die of
starvation
and related causes. We must take urgent action now.”
Jean Ziegler, January
2010
Jean
Ziegler
is
the Vice-President of the UN Human Rights
Council’s Advisory Committee, working as an expert on economic, social
and
cultural rights, including the right to food. During the period
2000-2008, Jean
Ziegler was the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.
This website provides insight into the current and past work of Jean
Ziegler
related to the right to food, offers information on human rights law
developments concerning the right to food and other economic and social
rights,
and serves as a platform for other relevant news and information.
