Right to Food, Indigenous Peoples` Rights, Peasants` Rights, Fishers

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Launch of the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition
24 June 2013, Centrum Entwicklung, Vienna
CSO Conference Vienna+20 Human Rights in Crises
25-26 June 2013, Haus der EU, Vienna
Right to Food and Nutrition and
Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, Peasants’ Rights, Fishers’ Rights
Right to Food
Right to Food in Asia: Biraj Patnaik , Right to Food Campaign INDIA, is principal adviser to the
Supreme Court commissioners on the right to food in India. He has been actively involved in the
Right to Food Campaign in India.
Right to Food in Africa: Claire Quenum, Vertreterin des African Right to Food Network, Togo
Sie arbeitet für FLORAISON, eine NGO die in Togo Bildungs- und Trainingsprogramme für Frauen im
ländlichen Raum durchführt.
Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur right to adequate food, Belgien, nur am 24. abends und
25 morgens in Wien.
Martin Wolpold-Bosien, FIAN International ist Leiter des Programms „Right to Food Accountability“
bei FIAN International. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Welternährung und Weltagrarhandel, globale
Fragen der Governance im Bereich Ernährungssicherheit sowie Monitoring des Menschenrechts auf
Nahrung auf lokaler, nationaler und globaler Ebene.
Christine Campeau, Food for Life Campaign Coordinator, Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance: Christine
joined the EAA in September 2011 after serving as a Climate Change and Food Security Advisor at the
Caritas Internationalis Secretariat in the Vatican City. Her current work aims to address hunger
through agroecological food production and secure access to and control over natural resources,
including land, water and seeds for small-scale food producers. She holds a Masters of International
Relations and a Certificate in Refugee in Migration Studies.
Flavio Valente, FIAN International
Flavio Luiz Schieck Valente is Brazilian and has been, since February 2007, the Secretary General of
FIAN International, working out of Heidelberg, Germany. Flavio was, from 2002 to 2007, the National
Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Adequate Food, Water and rural Land, in Brazil, for the National
Economic, Social, and Cultural Human Rights Project, coordinated by the Brazilian ESCHR Platform, in
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partnership with the United Nations Volunteers Program and the Office of the Federal Prosecutor for
the Rights of the Citizen. He was for many years the Technical coordinator of ABRANDH (Brazilian
Action for Nutrition and Human Rights) a Civil Society organization linked to the World Alliance for
Nutrition and Human Rights (WANAHR), and from 1998 to 2006, a member of the coordination of the
Brazilian Forum for Food and Nutritional Security (FBSAN). Flavio Valente is a physician, with a MPH
from Harvard School of Public Health. Over the last decade his work has concentrated on the
development and implementation of administrative, quasi-judicial and judicial recourse mechanisms
towards the realization of the Human Right to Adequate Food. He has published almost 100 scientific
papers and articles. His books include: Hunger and Malnutrition: Social Determinants and Human
right to adequate food: advances and challenges;
Previously, Flavio Valente was Nutrition and Public Health Professor at the Federal University of
Bahia (Masters on Community Health – 1979-1982) and at the Federal University of Santa Catarina
(1983-1995). He was also the advisor of the President of the Brazilian National Food Security Council
(CONSEA/1992-1994) and since then has worked with civil society organizations on the themes of
Food Security and Human right to Adequate Food.
Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, Peasants’ Rights, Fishers’ Rights
Indigenous people:
Mani Jorge Stanley, Verteter des International Indian Treaty Council, Vertreter des Volkes der Kuna,
Panamá
Eddie Antonio Ramírez Osorio, PCI – Pro Comunidades Indígenas (Paraguay)
Peasants‘ rights: Angel Strapazzón, Sprecher von Vía Campesina Lateinamerika (CLOC-Via
Campesina), mit Sitz in Argentinien, Angel Strappazon is closely monitoring land grab and soya monocultures in Argentina
Fisherfolks: Rehema Bavuma, Vertreterin des World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fishworkers,
WFF, Sitz in Uganda
Nomadenvölker: Monikka Agarwal, Vertreterin der World Alliance of Mobile and Indigenous
People (WAMIP), mit Sitz in Indien
Landarbeiter/innen: Svetlana Boincean (International Union of Food workers) Svetlana
Boincean is the International Union of Food workers (IUF), agricultural coordinator for Eastern
Europe and the Central Asia region and has been working for the IUF since 2005. She coordinates
agricultural workers activities in the region, develop policies and implement action plans with
agricultural unions on improving working and living standards of agricultural workers, with the
special focus on migrant workers, elimination of child labor, gender equality, occupational health and
safety and food security. She is also a member of the Coordination Committee for the Civil Society
Mechanism in the Committee on World Food Security (CFS). She holds a Master’s Degree in Labor
Policies and Globalization from the University of Kassel and Berlin School of Economics, Germany.
She is the author of IUF handbook “Workers and Unions on the Move: Organizing and Defending
Migrant Workers in Agriculture and Allied Sectors”.
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