Seminar on the global land grab and human rights

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3D Three (Geneva)

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Geneva, 16 May 2009

The race to secure large areas of agricultural land for off-shore food production is widely reported to be accelerating, with governments, companies and private investors negotiating new deals every week. While many of these agreements are yet to be finalized, they are a worrying potential threat to human rights, particularly in the numerous least developing countries leasing their land.

The Global Land Grab: A Human Rights Approach seminar will analyze the global land grab through a human rights lens, assessing the trade and investment agreements that are enabling the trend, as well as its likely effects on small farmers, indigenous peoples and food sovereignty. The seminar will discuss how the actors involved in land grabbing could be held to account and explore ways to promote human rights-consistent investment in land. Participants include human rights experts, members of social movements and development professionals, relevant Special Rapporteurs and members of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

The seminar is jointly organized by 3D and the Project on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.

For more information, contact 3D.

Resources from the seminar are now available here: http://www.3dthree.org/en/complement.php?IDcomplement=51&IDcat=19&IDpage=51

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