United Nations System
Standing Committee on Nutrition



 

Thirty-Fifth Session of the Standing Committee on Nutrition

 

Working Group on Nutrition, Ethics and Human Rights

Draft Agenda (7 February 2008)

Chair: Margret Vidar (FAO)
Co-Chairs: Flavio Valente (FIAN), Asako Hattori (OHCHR), Marlis Lindecke (GTZ)
Rapporteur: Marc Cohen (IFPRI)

 

Sunday 2 March 2008
Pre-session meeting, by invitation only

Time Topic
Part I: Opening
Chair: Margaret Vidar
0900-0930 Welcome, introductions, adoption of the agenda, report of the meeting
Margret Vidar
Part II: Task Force Reports
Chair: Margaret Vidar
0930-1015 Taskforce on the International Dimensions of the Right to Food
George Kent

Past activities, future plans, issues to discuss: Update on Global Obligations for the Right to Food project and proposed recommendations to be adopted by the Working Group

1015-1100 Taskforce on the Human Rights Responsibilities of the Corporate Food Sector
Wenche Barth Eide

Past activities, future plans, issues to discuss: Update on Sydney Principles, SCN Working Group Statements, articles in SCN News, Ziegler’s report, status of communication with Ruggie, Oslo meeting

1100-1145 Taskforce on Capacity Development for Human Rights in Nutrition
Wenche Barth Eide

Past activities, future plans, issues to discuss: FANUS

1145-1230 Taskforce on Defining the Fundamental Right to be Free from Hunger
Flavio Valente

Past activities, future plans, issues to discuss: Update on a strategy meeting in November 2007, discussion of how to move forward. (Also, right to Nutrition)

1230-1315 Taskforce on Indigenous People and the Right to Adequate Food
Harriet Kühnlein and Siri Damman

Past activities, future plans, issues to discuss: Update on study of “The Human Rights Implications of Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems and Policy Recommendations”

1315-1345 Lunch Break
Part III: Accelerating the Reduction of Maternal and Child Undernutrition
Chair: Asako Hattori
1345-1445 Discrimination and Undernutrition
(Planning for Tuesday presentation)
1445-1545 Any other business
a. International nutrition system/SCN review
b. 6th Report on the World Nutrition Situation
c. Recommendations with regard to Lancet series, Landscape Analysis of Readiness to Act, international nutrition system review, and any other plenary agenda items
d. Other

 

Tuesday 4 March 2008
Chair: Margret Vidar

Time Topic
1700-1705 Opening
Margaret Vidar
1705-1715 Report on Sunday pre-sessional meeting, including WG Task forces
Marc Cohen
1715-1725 Discussion
1725-1815 Presentation: Discrimination and Undernutrition
Veena Shatrugna, India National Institute of Nutrition
1815-1830 Discussion and Close

 

Thursday 6 March 2008, Melia Hotel

Time Topic
0800-0900 Launch of Global Obligations for the Right to Food, produced by WGNEHR’s Task Force on International Dimensions of the Right to Food. The book explores obligations regarding the right to food of the global community taken as a whole.
George Kent