Urgent Action Pakistan! foodworkers and the right to food - new UN Report

[Omaha Steve]

From an e-mail: URGENT ACTION PAKISTAN!

Tension is building to a crisis point at the notorious Pearl
Continental Hotel in Karachi, Pakistan, as 4 illegally dismissed union
leaders continue to resist their illegal dismissal on February 24 by
refusing to leave the hotel and union members and supporters continue
their vigil outside.

The workers and their union urgently need your support - click here
to learn more and to send a message to the company

http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/293

Call for Action from UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food: Over
Half the World's Hungry are Food Producers

A new report from the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food,
Olivier De Schutter, issues a series of strong recommendations for
governments and corporations in the light of "their different but
complementary responsibilities under international law" in realizing
the right to food.

A fundamental premise of the report is that over half the world's
hungry are food producers - waged agricultural workers and smallholder
producers - and that realizing the right to food requires action
inside the food system itself in dealing with the multiple impacts of
agribusiness (buyers, processors, retailers).

http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/288

Ron Oswald

General Secretary, IUF

International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant,
Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF)

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