Applications
for the third annual session of the
Training course on Monitoring Economic, Social
and Cultural
Rights are now open. The course takes place in Geneva on 10-14 May
2010 and is hosted and organized by the Project on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law
and Human Rights. For more
information and the application form.
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New interview (in German) with Jean Ziegler in Die
Weltwoche.
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Jean Ziegler has
been awarded an
Honorary Degree from the Université de Savoie on 4 December 2009.
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In August 2009 Jean
Ziegler was
elected Vice President of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory
Committee.
In
March
2009
Jean
Ziegler was re-elected, by acclamation,
by the Human Rights Council, to serve a further three year term as a
member of
that body's Advisory Committee.
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On 17 January 2009
in Paris, Jean
Ziegler received an Honorary Degree from Paris 8 University. See further
information.
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On 10 December 2008
in Paris,
Jean Ziegler received the "Prix littéraire pour les droits de l'homme’
for
his book" for his book "La Haine de l'Occident". See further
press on this.
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Jean Ziegler, UN
Special
Rapporteur on the Right to Food from 2001 to 30 April 2008, has been
appointed
as a Member of the Advisory Committee of the United Nations' Human
Rights
Council. In his new capacity, he is responsible for the promotion and
protection of economic and social rights, and in particular the right
to food.
He began his new mandate at the United Nations on 1 May 2008.
