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Trade with Central America Demanded
The Verifying International Mission,
coalition of human rights organizations
demanded here the world community reviews
trade accords with Central America to
guarantee feeding rights.
In a 64-page report to be submitted on
Monday in Geneva to UN Relator on Rights to
Food, Olivier de Schutter, there are
conclusions and recommendations emerged from
a probe on a lack of food supplies in
Guatemala.
According to the document, to which Prensa
Latina had access in Berlin, Guatemala "is
going through a severe food crisis,"
verified during a visit to that country by
representatives of the mission, in November
2009.
The authors recall the Government of
President Alvaro Colom declared on September
8, 2009 the state of public calamity due to
a food emergency.
The situation, worsened by a series of
climatic events, perseveres and already
caused the death to 460 persons, 54 of them,
children. As far as possible solutions are
concerned, the International Verifying
Commission recommended to resume the agenda
of the Peace Agreements, emphasizing on the
compliance of socioeconomic aspects like
access to land, natural and productive
resources and justice.
Such policy "would allow complete
reinsertion of the most vulnerable sectors
of the country, in order to break the
barrier of social inequity," sustains the
report.
The organizations recommended to the
Guatemala government to declare a national
priority to promote and protect the right to
food.
"The adoption of integral rural development
policies with an adequate funding for the
execution of the approved Agrarian Policies
and for Integral Rural Development, as well
as the prompt approval of the Law of the
Nacional System for Integral Rural
Development," expresses the document.
The report also suggests "to stop the
expansion of biofuel production and to
orientate production to a sustainable supply
of food."
The authors suggest to the international
community to support the efforts of the
Guatemalan government to face the immediate
consequences of the food crisis.
It also refers that "policies and trade
agreements in force or in negotiating stage
with the executive and the Central American
region under the criteria of coherence with
human rights, in particular the economic,
social and cultural rights."
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