World Food Day Event In Dhaka in Pictures

On 16th of October, Tuesday SUPRO organized human chain, street theater and cultural show in front of National Museum at Shahbagh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Here is the event in Pictures:

Today’s Program in Dhaka

GROW Week Celebration at National Level (Dhaka, Bangladesh): Programs of 16 October, Tuesday:

What	When	Where	Who
Seminar on “Stop Food Adulteration”	10:00am-1:00pm	National Press Club	DBM
Round Table Meeting on “Employment, Nutrition and Food Security of Rural Women”	3.00pm-5.00 pm	Reporters Unity	Karmojibi Nari(KN), Krishi Sramik Odhikar Monch
Mass gathering to address urban poverty	3:00 pm- 5:00 pm	Korail Slum, Dhaka	DBM
Dialogue on “Food Security and Disaster”	3:00 pm- 5:00 pm	University of Dhaka	University of Dhaka and Oxfam

Seminar on ‘Food For All’ in Pictures

Seminar on ‘Food For All’

‘Food For All’ Campaign

Seminar in Progress

See live blog here.

Today’s Program

GROW Week Celebration at National Level (Dhaka, Bangladesh)

What	When	Where	Who
Seminar on “Food for All”	15 October, Monday  10:00 am- 1:00 pm	CIRDAP	DBM

Oxfam GROW Method

The GROW Method is 5 new ways to feed your family and ensure everyone has enough to eat, always. Share your recipes with us by tagging them #GROWmethod. Find out more at oxfam.org/growmethod.

National Human Rights Commission, Oxfam sign MoU

National Human Rights Commission and Oxfam signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on 7 October 2012, at Human Rights Commission office, to work together towards a shared vision and that is to raise awareness of right to food and campaign in line with that.

Gareth Price Jones, Bangladesh Country Director, Oxfam and Prof. Dr. Mizanur Rahman, Chairman, NHRC.

Prof. Dr. Mizanur Rahman, Chairman, NHRC and Gareth Price Jones, Bangladesh Country Director, Oxfam signed the MoU on behalf of their respective organizations.

About the purpose of the MoU, Dr Mizan said, “The purpose is to promote human rights and its strategic focus on economic, social and cultural rights, largely right to food for the people of Bangladesh.” He also mentioned that economic empowerment was important for reducing poverty.

Under the agreement NHRC and Oxfam will raise the voices for the poor in food, agriculture, climate change, trade and economy through an Oxfam led alliance of 250 organizations across the country.

Talking about GROW, Gareth Price Jones, Country Director of Oxfam in Bangladesh, said, “Currently, nearly 1 in 7 people regularly go hungry.  The GROW campaign is about transforming the broken food system so that it works for everyone today. It is also about ensuring that the system is fit for a future where resource constraints, environmental challenges such as climate change, and a growing population will make feeding the world harder still.”

The broad areas of cooperation mentioned in the MoU are ensuring right to food for the people of Bangladesh and campaign advocacy that commonly serve the vision and mission of Oxfam and NHRC.

The Right to Food: A Fundamental Human Right

What is the Right to Food?

The right to food is a human right. It is the most fundamental human right to ensuring that people live with dignity, free from hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. The right to food was formally recognized in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and reinforced afterwards by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Jean Ziegler, the first UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Food has defined the right to food as: “the right to have regular, permanent and unrestricted access, either directly or by means of financial purchases, to quantitatively and qualitatively adequate and sufficient food corresponding to the cultural traditions of the people to which the consumer belongs, and which ensures a physical and mental, individual and collective, fulfilling and dignified life free of fear.”

The Food Rights Of Children. Courtesy Piccolo Chef

Olivier De Schutter, the current UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Food stated: “The right to food is not primarily the right to be fed after an emergency. It is the right, for all, to have legal frameworks and strategies in place that further the realization of the right to adequate food.”

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