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Jean Ziegler
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Betting on Famine
“The seminal book on global poverty and hunger . . . How rapacious speculators and complicit bureaucrats are starving a billion people” (Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch and author of Foodopoly). Few people know that world hunger was very nearly eradicated in our lifetimes. In the past five years, however, widespread starvation has suddenly reappeared, and chronic hunger is a major issue on every continent. In an extensive investigation of this disturbing shift, Jean Ziegler—one of the world’s leading food experts—lays out in clear and accessible terms the complex global causes of the new hunger crisis. Ziegler’s wide-ranging and fascinating examination fo...
The Fight for the Right to Food
This book documents and analyzes the experiences of the UN's first Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. It highlights the conceptual advances in the legal understanding of the right to food in international human rights law, as well as analyzes key practical challenges through experiences in 11 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The Right to Food
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The Right to Food
The mission was motivated by the fact that acute malnutrition levels have recently increased in Guatemala.
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler
In this report, the sociologist Jean Ziegler provides detailed summaries of his letters and appeals to government officials in 31 countries and to a handfull of other actors regarding instances of alleged violations of the right to food. He also provides summaries of responses, when they exist. The author's communications were sent, and replies received, from 2 December 2006 to 21 January 2008. Cases are organized by country.
The Swiss, the Gold, and the Dead
A sharp and passionate expose' that demolishes the myth of Swiss neutrality in World War II, showing how Switzerland laundered gold looted from the banks of Nazi-occupied Europe and from the bodies of concentration camp victims. Maps.
Switzerland Exposed
Monograph examining aspects of the social structure, political system, economic policy and foreign policy of Switzerland - covers characteristics of the ruling class, attitudes of political partys, participation in multinational enterprises, banking policy, situation of migrant workers, trade relations, etc. References.
