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11 March 2017, 15:00-18:00
Event
FIFDH
The International film festival and forum on human rights (FIFDH) and the Geneva Academy welcome former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who along with her predecessor Luiz Inacio ‘Lula’ da Silva initiated ‘Fome Zero’ (Zero Hunger), one of the most ambitious programmes to fight hunger on such a scale. It enabled more than 20 millions of Brazilians to escape hunger.
India has about 200 million undernourished people. Under the pressure of civil society and after several hard-fought legal battles, the Supreme Court has successfully implemented a system to ensure the delivery of food to the poorest, often subject of speculation and corruption. Can these two examples be replicated elsewhere ? What are, in both cases, the lessons learned ?
A talk with Dilma Rousseff will start the event. It will be followed by the screening of the film An Insignificant Man and a panel discussion on economic, social and cultural rights.
Colin Gonsalves, Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India, social and economic rights defender, and Founder of the Human Rights Law Network
Dilma Rousseff, Former President of Brazil
Christophe Golay, Research Fellow and Strategic Adviser, Geneva Academy
Darius Rochebin, Journalist, RTS
A talk with Dilma Rousseff on the occasion of the International film festival and forum on human rights. It was followed by the screening of the film An Insignificant Man and a panel discussion on social and economic rights.
News
The Geneva Academy has released one briefing in French and four research briefs in French, English, German, and Italian on the right to food in Geneva.
Project
Paolo Margari
This research aims at mainstreaming the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment and the protection it affords in the work of the UN Human Rights Council, its Special Procedures and Universal Periodic Review, as well as in the work of the UN General Assembly and UN treaty bodies.
Project
Daniel Taylor
The project will notably identify the main opportunities and obstacles to protect the right to seeds in Europe. It will also discuss how to promote changes in European laws, policies and trade agreements to ensure that they do not infringe, but facilitate the realization of peasants’ right to seeds.
Publication
Geneva Academy
Publication
Geneva Academy
