World Food Day underlines the fundamental human right to food. A right which is consistently under threat in situations of armed conflict. In situations of armed conflict, the right to food, guaranteed under international human rights law (IHRL), is often violated...
As Liechtenstein becomes the 7th State to ratify the Rome Statute amendment, extending the application of starvation as a war crime to non-international armed conflicts (NIAC), GRC is proud to announce that in 2022 it will support the International Law Directorate...
Since November, Tigray has been gripped in a brutal conflict which has decimated food systems. 5.5 million people are currently food insecure, and 350,000 people are already facing famine. The Tigray region, home to the Tigrayan ethnic group, is situated in the...
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...
GRC has been privileged to have had the opportunity to work with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Hilal Elver, and her team over the last 2 years. During her 6-year mandate as Special Rapporteur, Hilal has witnessed a stark increase in hunger and...
Global Rights Compliance is pleased to be recognised in the latest 2020 annual report of the Special Rapporteur on right to food titled ‘Critical perspective on food systems, food crises and the future of the right to food’. The report analyses effect of conflict...
Russia's invasion and occupation of Ukraine is characterised by industrial-scale state-sponsored theft and robbery. This is particularly evident in the agricultural sector. Russian occupiers have seized land, agricultural infrastructure and millions of tons of grain,...
Following the release of the SMJT's new report which reveals the Russian campaign to cripple Ukraine's grain trade and economy, Olha Matskiv, Ukrainian Lawyer part of the SMJT was cited in the Sunday Times. The article "Starvation is Russia's favourite weapon", by...
To read the whole piece on Babel, please follow the link Russian attacks on Ukraineʼs agricultural infrastructure are an economic war, the goal of which the Russians see as the destruction of Ukraineʼs agricultural and export potential through occupation, theft and...