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Jean Ziegler (born April 19, 1934) is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and a senior professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris. He was a Member of Parliament for the Social Democrats in the Swiss federal parliament from 1981 to 1999, now he is one of the biggest protagonists of the alter-globalization movement.
He gained international acclaim for his efforts on behalf of Jewish holocaust survivors seeking compensation from bank accounts alleged linked to Nazi German in Swiss Banks. This work is documented in his book The Swiss, the Gold and the Dead: How Swiss Bankers Helped Finance the Nazi War Machine, published in 1998.
In 2000, he was appointed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. In this role, he has visited many countries on behalf of the Commission on Human Rights, including Niger, Ethiopia, India, Bangladesh, Mongolia, Brazil, Guatemala, and the Palestinian territories to report on the situation of hunger and malnutrition in these countries. Jean Ziegler is the author of various books on globalization and on what he calls the crimes committed in the name of global finance and capitalism, condemning in particular the alleged role of Switzerland in these. He writes in French and German … (full long text).
See his websites, in french, and in english.
Jean Ziegler - Switzerland
See his annual reports on this UN-page; his report 2005 for ECOSOC; the children and their Human Right to Food: FLEEING FROM HUNGER - THE WORLD’S HUNGER REFUGEES 2007.
See also: the Human Rights Council HRC, all reports of the 7th session, 3 - 28 March 2008; and Pressure Grows on EU to Abandon Biofuels, April 16, 2008.
Find him and his publications on amazon.co.uk; on Google Video-search; on Google Book-search; on Google Group-search; on Google Blog-search.
In the mandate given by the Commission on Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur is also requested, to seek, receive and respond to information on all aspects of the realization of the right to food, including the urgent necessity of eradicating hunger.
In accordance with this mandate, the Special Rapporteur has set up an official system for receiving and responding to allegations with respect to violations of the right to food. Once he receives allegations of violations in different countries, he writes to the relevant Governments to ask them to verify the allegations and to take action where necessary to ensure redress and accountability. He reminds them of their obligations under international law and the right to food and asks them to respond to him to document action taken.
The beginning: At its fifty-sixth session, the Commission on Human Rights adopted resolution 2000/10 of 17 April 2000, in which it decided, in order to respond fully to the necessity for an integrated and coordinated approach in the promotion and protection of the right to food, to appoint, for a period of three years, a special rapporteur on the right to food. It defined the Special Rapporteur’s mandate as follows:
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