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Finally, we have started to talk about the “right to food and adequate nutrition”. FAO already developed Voluntary Guidelines for the Progressive Realization of the Human Right to Food, which Malawi promptly signed 19 years ago. That is the starting point. Since then, Malawi has been a part of several workshops and conferences. But when the workshop participants returned home, they chose to keep quiet. Most so-called human right defenders chose to talk about other “sexy” human rights – like political freedoms and what else you know. So I am very very happy indeed for my country. CISANET must lead,… Read more »
Finally, we have started to talk about the “right to food and adequate nutrition”. I am so happy. I believe my old friends, Wenche and (was it Bad?), at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights will also be happy. Since 10 December 1997, the voices of CISANET was muted and the people that claim to be human right defenders chose to talk about other “sexy” human rights – like political freedoms and what else you know. So I am very very happy indeed for my country.
Are you telling me that anyone without food in his house will go to the neighbour and snatch any food he sees there without being sued? Is that you are calling Right to Food? Why do we keep on wasting money on useless workshops and create blank and never-used documents when the needful is clear on the wall? Are you telling that it is because of the legal framework gap that is making us poor and hungry every year? Are we serious? You need to come on TV and face these questions head-on and clarify what you are saying for… Read more »
Maybe I am old fashioned, I just see repackaging of the same issues . What will the law achieve? Those who go hungry will sue the government? The money you have just use it to support the smallholder farmers, rather than wasting on a law that will have no implementation modalities.
This is garbage I repeatedly hear, legal framework. What is magic of legal framework? What have we benefited from legal frameworks? Nothing of course. Better worst resources on socialization rather than proven useless legal framework tactics. Policy is not practice. Malawi has more legal frameworks that are just absorbing dusty or selective implemented for selfish ends. Then why continuing add more useless and lifeless documents. Moreover, right to food cannot be monitored or enforced exclusively. Right to food is one of the second generation of human rights, economic and social rights. These rights cannot be enforced effectively owing to the… Read more »
I am kind of disappointed type of attitude to say the least. I am even not surprised now, why Malawi is not making progress in achieving food security because we are very comfortable in the status quo. The Framework Law is supposed to institutionalize systems that will regulate Right to Food (RtF) implementation and governance. Are you not surprised that for the past 50+ years, even though Malawi has tried to invest to implement RtF programmes, It still finds itself in the same situation year in year out? Progress cannot come if we keep on the same ways over and… Read more »
I don’t think there is any issue that can make one get angry or disappointed here. The point I am advancing here is that you can’t institutionalize a thing that does not exist. First thing first, let people embrace human rights culture (right to food including) and government be responsible and responsive first then institutionalization should later. The idea that institutions including policies work anywhere, once supplanted or imposed, is misleading. Precisely, that is western mentality and academically liberal institutionalism. Institutions are not magic bullets in all situations. Institutions work majestically and magically only in situations where assumptions behind their… Read more »