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Paper presentation by Isis International
Women – Right to Food, Food Security, Food Sovereignty
UN Human Rights Council Session 16-Geneva
March 9, 2011, 1:00-3:00 pm, Room 24
Palais des Nations
Isis International would like to thank the organizers for inviting us to participate in this panel on Women, Right to Food, Food Security and Food Sovereignty. I would like to give a special mention here to Marilee Karl, founder of Isis International and who has been working on the issue of Food Crisis since 1996.
Voices of women farmers
As we meet here today, women farmers like Mela Gipanao in the village of Bulan in the Philippines are struggling to feed their families. Growing rice and raising small livestock have been insufficient, so Mela has been rising at 3 a.m. to go to the port to buy fish, which she later resells at the market. She can no longer afford to send her children to school and her family eats only two meals a day of rice and fried fish.
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