THE RIGHTS TO FOOD AND WATER into national law, and for creating an international environment conducive to its implementation. 25 Social and Economic Rights Action Center and Center for Economic and Social Rights v. Nigeria (Communication No. 155/96, 30th Ordinary Session, October 2001). The African Commission ruled that: ‘The African Charter and international law require and bind Nigeria to protect and improve existing food resources and to ensure access to adequate food for all citizens. Without touching on the duty to improve food productions and to guarantee access, the minimum core of the right to food requires that the Nigerian government should not destroy or contaminate food resources. It should not allow private parties to destroy or contaminate food sources, and prevent people’s effort to feed themselves.’ (para. 65). See also Special Rapporteur’s report submitted to General Assembly, UN doc. A/58/330, 2003, para. 38. 26 See ‘The right to food in national constitutions’, in The Right to Food in Theory and Practice, FAO Rome, 1998, pp. 42–3 (English only). Available at: www.fao.org/docrep/ w9990e/w9990e12.htm. 27 For a comprehensive list see CESCR General Comment No.15, para. 4, n. 5. See also the Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security, op.cit. 28 CESCR General Comment No.15, paras 2, 4. 29 Ibid., para. 14. 30 Ibid., para. 16. 31 Ibid., para 7. 32 Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Report 2003, op. cit., para. 35. 33 Free Legal Assistance Group, Lawyers’ Committee for Human Rights, Union Interafricaine des Droits de l’Homme, Les Témoins de Jehovah v. Zaire, Communications 25/89, 47/90, 56/91 and 100/93, (18th Ordinary Session, October 1995), available at www1.umn.edu/ humanrts/africa/comcases/25-89_47-90_56-91_100-93.html 34 Available at: www. http://cm.coe.int/stat/E/Public/2001/adopted_texts/ recommendations/2001r14.htm 35 For a detailed list of international and national standards and legislation as well as judicial decisions on the right to water, see Legal Resources for Right to Water: International and National Standards, Centre On Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), January 2004, available at: www.cohre.org/downloads/water_res_8.pdf 36 ICESCR, Art. 2. 37 CESCR General Comment No.12, para. 14; also General Comment 3, op. cit., para. 10. In Tribunal fédéral suisse, références: ATF 121 I 367, 371, 373 V. = JT 1996 389, the Swiss Federal Tribunal, the highest court in Switzerland, recognized the right to minimum basic conditions, including ‘the guarantee of all basic human needs, such as food, clothing, and housing’. This case suggests that in Switzerland the right to food is a right recognized as inherent in everyone as a human being. The case is referred to in The 27