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15 Oct 2021
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Right to Food and the Rights of Peasants in the Context of COVID-19 and Other Crisis

Michael Fakhri [Special Rapporteur on Right to Food of United Nations]


Background Note 

This Note provides the background to my remarks that I will make at the 11th World Human Rights Cities Forum hosted in Gwangju, Republic of Korea. I was honored by the invitation to speak on 9 October 2021 because not too many places in the world are discussing the COVID-19 pandemic in a way that focuses on people’s dignity and human rights. What makes this forum inspiring is that it identifies local and regional governments as key actors in fostering solidarity and bringing civil society together. This forum recognizes the fact that local and regional governments can use human rights to create a new social contract between people and governments.

8. Solidaristic: In addition to serving as spaces in which buyers and sellers are matched up, they are places where political, social and cultural relations are made and expressed, and where all people involved interact according to varying degrees of interdependence and solidarity. The power relationship amongst producers, processors, traders and consumers is more horizontal. This means that markets are constituted by long-standing relationships of trust. 



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