:: Right to Food ::

Jean Ziegler’s work as a Member of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council is supported by the Research Unit on the Right to Food, staffed by Christophe Golay and Claire Mahon. Previously, Sally-Anne Way also worked with the team during Jean Ziegler’s mandate as UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.

The Research Unit on the Right to Food is based in Geneva, Switzerland and was created in 2001. It provides research support to Jean Ziegler, in collaboration with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Research Unit helped to prepare the former Special Rapporteur's reports to the UN Commission on Human Rights and to the UN General Assembly and assisted in country missions to examine the right to food around the world. The Research Unit also works to disseminate information about the right to food and to develop networks of organisations working on the right to food and reporting violations of the right to food.