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Pathways to accountability in the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan’s report on the use of deliberate starvation as a method of warfare
On 6 October 2020, in a first for any UN Panel, the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan (UNCHRSS) released a trailblazing report dedicated to assessment of the use of starvation as a method of warfare. In it, the Commission noted the existence of...
UN World Food Programme (WFP) Awarded Nobel Peace Prize 2020 for their Work on Combating Hunger
GRC is delighted to see the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize go to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) for its tireless efforts to combat hunger, to better conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict....
GRC’s Wayne Jordash to engage in a discussion on Starvation as a Weapon of Warfare at a conference hosted by the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin and Action Against Hunger Germany
States have long refuted the various links between hunger and armed conflicts; often reducing famine to the development field or as an unavoidable collateral damage of war. In 2018, the UN Security Council finally recognised ‘the need to break the vicious cycle...
Mwatana for Human Rights appeal for credible accountability and redress for Yemen
Yesterday, GRC partner, Mwatana for Human Rights, appealed to the UN Human Rights Council to heed calls by international civil society “to pave the way towards credible accountability and redress for Yemen, including by renewing and strengthening the mandate of the...
Fresh Warning on Famine Looming in Yemen Again
Starvation again threatens Yemen. Roughly 80 percent of the country’s 30 million people require food aid and at least 16 Houthi-controlled districts in Yemen are believed to be in the IPC Phase 4 (Crisis) — one step away from famine. Despite this, and six years...
2020 Report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World released
The 2020 edition of the annual report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World has been released this week, produced jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development...
Protection of Civilians: Two Years on from the adoption of the UNSC Resolution 2417
It has been two years since the unanimous adoption of Resolution 2417 (2018), in which the UN Security Council (UNSC) recognized for the first time the intrinsic link between hunger and conflict and the essential role of international humanitarian law (IHL) in...
GRC privileged to have contributed to the ISSAT’s new thematic practice on states of emergency
GRC are privileged to have contributed to the DCAF's International Security Sector Advisory Team's (ISSAT) new thematic practice on states of emergency in practice, providing security sector reform (SSR) relevant solutions. (see here) Emergency measures have...
KOMPASS REPORT 2020 RELEASED – “The Vicious Cycle of Conflict and Hunger: Germany’s Role in Preventing Man-Made Starvation”
Welt Hunger Hilfe (WHH) is one of Germany’s biggest private development and humanitarian organisations, focusing on the eradication of hunger and poverty. Today’s release of their Kompass Report to which Global Rights Compliance and Terre Des Hommes...