Room: MA 141

WUNRN-Women’s UN Report Network

Food is a basic human right, guaranteed by international law. States must reaffirm the obligations they have assumed in International Humanitarian Law, as parties to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the Additional Protocols, including access to food in situations of armed conflict and occupation. There is no significant attention to food security of women and children during conflict. Statistics often do not designate how many civilians die in conflict from lack of food, from malnutrition, from starvation. The Panel will highlight the many dimensions and the serious dynamics of Women-Food Security-Conflict & Peace.

Lori Ann Post, Yale University Researcher on Women, Food, Rights, Humanitarian Issues in Conflict

Ana Maria Suarez Franco, FIAN International Representative in Geneva – Video

James F. Oehmke , USAID, Senior Advisor of Food Security & Nutrition – Statement

Moderator: Lois A. Herman, WUNRN