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The New Right to Food and Nutrition WATCH 2009

FIAN is pleased to announce the release of the new issue of the Right to Food and Nutrition WATCH. This year's edition focuses on the question of "Who controls the governance of the world food system?" - a burning issue in light of the current World Food Crisis.

The WATCH, available in three languages, is a common endeavor of a Consortium of human rights organizations, social movements and development agencies. The Consortium for the WATCH 2009 is composed by Brot für die Welt, the Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation (ICCO) and FIAN International as publishers, and World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), People's Health Movement (PHM), Habitat International Coalition (HIC), World Organisation against Torture (OMCT), DanChurchAid, Rights and Democracy, Plataforma Interamericana de Derechos Humanos Democracia y Desarrollo (PIDHDD), and African Right to Food Network as partners.

As an evidence-providing monitoring tool, the WATCH pursues two aims: to put public pressure on policy makers at the national and international level to take the human right to food serious, and to provide a systematic compilation of best practices for the realisation of the right to food, while documenting where violations take place.

Right to Food and Nutrition Watch 2009