The Raoul Wallenberg Institute is hosting Hilal Elver, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food for two events on the 3rd of October.
The first is an informal session where attendees will have the opportunity to engage with the Special Rapporteur on issues related to Human Rights to Food in relation to natural disasters and climate change.
This event will be held at 13:00 until 14:00 in the Beijing conference room at Stora Gråbrödersgatan 17 B, P.O. Box 1155, SE-221 05 Lund.
The second event that Hilal Elver will be involved in a collaborating with UPF, to host a lecture for our Wednesday Night Rights lecture series.
This lecture will be held from 19:00 until 20:30 in Café Athen.
Presentation and discussion: Human Rights to Food in relation to natural disasters and climate change
Opportunity to engage with the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, Ms. Hilal Elver, on issues related to Human Rights to Food in relation to natural disasters and climate change.
Date: 3rd of October
Time: 13:00-14:30
Venue: Beijing conference room at Stora Gråbrödersgatan 17 B, P.O. Box 1155, SE-221 05 Lund
On Wednesday the 3rd of October at 13.00-14.30, UN special rapporteur on the rights to food Ms Hilal Elver will present her recent report on human rights to food in relation to natural disasters at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
The format of the session is informal and there will be time to ask questions and engage in discussion.
For students who wish to attend, please prepare in advance by reading the report, which is available here in several languages.
You are also encouraged to make an indicatory registration for the session by emailing sofie.viborg_jensen@rwi.lu.se
Ms. Hilal Elver will also give a lecture in the evening of the 3rd on Famine as a grave violation of human Rights. This lecture is part of the Wednesday Night Rights lecture series which the Raoul Wallenberg Institute is co-organising with UPF. You can read more about the lecture here.
FAMINE AS A GRAVE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Speaker: Hilal Elver, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Date: 3rd of October
Time: 19.00-20.30
Venue: Café Athen
Partners: UPF
Facebook event: Famine as a Grave Violation of Human Rights
The Raoul Wallenberg Institute is collaborating with UPF to host Hilal Elver, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, for our Wednesday Night Rights lecture series.
Currently, four countries in Sub Saharan Africa and the Middle East are suffering from famine despite increased food production and reduction of hunger and malnutrition at the global level. Recently, the trend of reduction in hunger and malnutrition at the global level has reversed, due to conflict, climate change induced extreme weather events, such as drought and flood, as well as failed economic, political and environmental policies. This creates severe inequality in every level.
During this lecture, Hilal Elver will explore why severe hunger and malnutrition cannot be eliminated despite quantitative successes of economic globalization and why a human rights approach to food security is experiencing disappointing setbacks.
About Hilal Elver:
Ms. Hilal Elver is a Research Professor, and global distinguished fellow at the University of California Santa Barbara LA Law School Resnick Food Law and Policy Center. She has a law degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Ankara Law School and a SJD from the UCLA Law School. Ms. Elver started her teaching career at the University of Ankara’s Faculty of Law and was appointed founding legal advisor of the Ministry of Environment and the General Director of Women’s Status by the Turkish government, during this period. In 1994, she was appointed Chair to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in Environmental Diplomacy at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies, University of Malta. Since 1996 she has been teaching at several universities in the United States and abroad. Throughout her career, she has done extensive work with national and international human rights NGOs.
Hilal Elver’s publications have focused mainly on international environmental law, women’s rights and international human rights law. Her book, Peaceful Uses of International Rivers: Case of Euphrates and Tigris Rivers, was published in 2002, while her most recent book, The Headscarf Controversy, Secularism and Freedom of Religion, was published in 2012 by the Oxford University Press.
She has written numerous chapters in books and articles in academic journals ranging from Global Justice, New Constitutionalism, Secularism, women’s rights, water rights, environmental security, climate change diplomacy and food security. Hilal Elver was appointed Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food by the Human Rights Council in May 2014 and assumed her functions on 2 June 2014.
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