28
THE RIGHTS TO FOOD AND WATER
Right to Food, Report of Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, UN doc. E/CN.4/2002,
para. 58.
38 The Right to Food, Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN doc.
E/CN.4/1998/21, para. 17.
39 CESCR General Comment No.12, op. cit., para. 28.
40
41
CESCR General Comment No.15, op. cit., para. 37.
CESCR General Comment No.15, para. 15; also see Special Rapporteur’s report 2001,
op. cit., para. 27.
42
The CESCR urged the Cameroon government to take measure to protect the right of
the Baka Pygmies to an adequate standard of living, CESCR, UN doc. E/2000/22, 1999,
para. 56.
43
For example on the repercussion of a dam on the Epupa community of Namibia, see,
Human Rights and Indigenous Issues, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation
of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples, UN doc.
E/CN.4/2003/90, para 28, and on the Adivasis of India, paras. 15-18.
44
Concluding Observation on Nepal, CESCR, UN doc. E/2002/22, para. 83.
45
Eide, A., Right to Adequate Food.., op. cit., para. 52.
46
Concluding Observation on Paraguay, CESCR, UN doc. E/1997/22, para. 22.
47
CESCR General Comment No.15, op. cit., para. 37.
48
Voluntary Guidelines on the Right to Food, guideline 8b provides: ‘States should take
measures to promote and protect the security of land tenure, especially with respect to
women, poor and disadvantaged segments of society, through legislation…. Special
consideration should be given to the situation of indigenous communities.’
49
CESCR General Comment No.12, op. cit., para. 26.
50 CESCR General Comment No.15, op. cit., paras 26–7.
51
CESCR General Comment No.12, op. cit., para. 36.
52
CESCR General Comment No.15, op. cit., para. 31.
53 CESCR General Comment No.15, op. cit., para. 34.
54
Voluntary Guidelines on the Right to Food, op.cit., guideline 6: Stakeholders.
55
CESCR General Comment No.12, op. cit., para. 23.
56
Social and Economic Rights Action Center and Center for Economic and Social Rights v.
57
Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Ecuador, Inter-American Commission on
Nigeria (Ogoni case), op. cit.
Human Rights, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.96, doc. 10 rev.1, 24 April 1997.
58 Voluntary Guidelines on the Right to Food, op. cit., guideline 18.