BSS, Dhaka :
Speakers at a dialogue on Sunday said Bangladesh should enact a law on Right to Food and implement it in order to ensure adequate amount of food and nutrition for the poor and extremely poor people in the country.
“Enacting the right to food act is a demand of the hour,” said Mohsin Ali, general secretary of the Right to Food movement.
“If it is made into a law, its effectiveness will increase and the scope for accountability is widened.”
Mohsin was speaking at a dialogue on the “Need to Enact a Food Right Act and the Role of the Media” at the conference room of the Economic Reporters’ Forum (ERF) in Dhaka. The Right to Food Bangladesh and the ERF jointly organised the dialogue.
Arshad Hossain Siddiqui, lobby and advocacy expert for South & Central Asia Region at ICCO Cooperation, a global non-governmental organisation, echoed Mohsin Ali.
Siddiqui said: “An act on the right to food and safe food has to be formulated. The constitution has guaranteed the right to food. Now it should be legally established.”
Speakers at a dialogue on Sunday said Bangladesh should enact a law on Right to Food and implement it in order to ensure adequate amount of food and nutrition for the poor and extremely poor people in the country.
“Enacting the right to food act is a demand of the hour,” said Mohsin Ali, general secretary of the Right to Food movement.
“If it is made into a law, its effectiveness will increase and the scope for accountability is widened.”
Mohsin was speaking at a dialogue on the “Need to Enact a Food Right Act and the Role of the Media” at the conference room of the Economic Reporters’ Forum (ERF) in Dhaka. The Right to Food Bangladesh and the ERF jointly organised the dialogue.
Arshad Hossain Siddiqui, lobby and advocacy expert for South & Central Asia Region at ICCO Cooperation, a global non-governmental organisation, echoed Mohsin Ali.
Siddiqui said: “An act on the right to food and safe food has to be formulated. The constitution has guaranteed the right to food. Now it should be legally established.”
