Barisal Correspondent :
Participants at a divisional programme of right activists in Barisal on Tuesday holding rally with road show caravan and submitting memorandum to the government called for enacting right to food act as part of ensuring basic human rights.
The programme on the issue started from Central Shaheed Minar of the city and ended by submitting memorandum to the government through DC of Barisal at his office.
The programme was organised by Prantojon and participated by activists of Food safety Network (Khaddo Nirapatta Network/ Khani) in Barisal.
S M Shahjada, executive director Prantojon, presided over the programme addressed among others by Prof. Ziaul Huq, Barisal Education Board chairman, Akkas Hossain, Dr. Habibur Rahman, Dr. Mizanur Rahman, Mahmudul Huq Khan Mamun, Zakir Talukdar, Shawkat Ali Badal, Lincoln Bayen, Md Shahbuddin, Ibrahim Hamid Masum, right activists.
Speakers remembering promise of the prime minister at the South Asian food conference about ensuring food right of every one called for enacting and implementing food security act immediately.
Whilst under international law states are obliged to respect, protect and fulfill the right to food, the practical difficulties in achieving this human right are demonstrated by prevalent food insecurity across the world, and ongoing litigation in countries such as Bangladesh, they told.
The right to food protects the right of all human beings to be free from hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition.
Bangladesh now achieved food sufficiency and engaged in achieving sustainable development goal and demolishing hunger from the country, the speakers said.
The speakers also opined that right to food does not imply that governments have an obligation to hand out free food to everyone who wants it, or a right to be fed.
Right to food is a basic human right protecting the right for people to feed themselves in dignity, implying that sufficient food is available, that people have the means to access it, and that it adequately meets the individual’s dietary needs, they said .
So enacting and implementing right to food act not only solve the problem of food crisis, shortage of food and lack of infrastructure but also misdistributions and inadequate access to food, the participants told.
The right to food caravan started from Niilphamari on October 11 and will end at Dhaka on October 17 after covering 25 districts in four regions of the country to press home the demand for enacting and implementing right to food act, the organisers of the programme said.
Participants at a divisional programme of right activists in Barisal on Tuesday holding rally with road show caravan and submitting memorandum to the government called for enacting right to food act as part of ensuring basic human rights.
The programme on the issue started from Central Shaheed Minar of the city and ended by submitting memorandum to the government through DC of Barisal at his office.
The programme was organised by Prantojon and participated by activists of Food safety Network (Khaddo Nirapatta Network/ Khani) in Barisal.
S M Shahjada, executive director Prantojon, presided over the programme addressed among others by Prof. Ziaul Huq, Barisal Education Board chairman, Akkas Hossain, Dr. Habibur Rahman, Dr. Mizanur Rahman, Mahmudul Huq Khan Mamun, Zakir Talukdar, Shawkat Ali Badal, Lincoln Bayen, Md Shahbuddin, Ibrahim Hamid Masum, right activists.
Speakers remembering promise of the prime minister at the South Asian food conference about ensuring food right of every one called for enacting and implementing food security act immediately.
Whilst under international law states are obliged to respect, protect and fulfill the right to food, the practical difficulties in achieving this human right are demonstrated by prevalent food insecurity across the world, and ongoing litigation in countries such as Bangladesh, they told.
The right to food protects the right of all human beings to be free from hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition.
Bangladesh now achieved food sufficiency and engaged in achieving sustainable development goal and demolishing hunger from the country, the speakers said.
The speakers also opined that right to food does not imply that governments have an obligation to hand out free food to everyone who wants it, or a right to be fed.
Right to food is a basic human right protecting the right for people to feed themselves in dignity, implying that sufficient food is available, that people have the means to access it, and that it adequately meets the individual’s dietary needs, they said .
So enacting and implementing right to food act not only solve the problem of food crisis, shortage of food and lack of infrastructure but also misdistributions and inadequate access to food, the participants told.
The right to food caravan started from Niilphamari on October 11 and will end at Dhaka on October 17 after covering 25 districts in four regions of the country to press home the demand for enacting and implementing right to food act, the organisers of the programme said.
