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posted by Editor on Feb 28, 2013 - View profile

Halifax

Report Launch of UN Canada Mission on Right to Food


1:00pm
- 2:30pm
Monday March 4 2013

Venue: FoodARC
Address: 2 Melody Drive (on Mount Saint Vincent campus)
Cost: Free

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Join FoodARC and Food Secure Canada for a conversation with the Special Rapporteur on the right to food!

 

Where: at FoodARC, 2 Melody Drive (on Mount Saint Vincent campus)
Google Maps directions - http://bit.ly/WzPXB8 or see building #15 on campus map athttp://www.msvu.ca/site/media/msvu/campusmap.pdf
How: by webinar
RSVP: Space is limited so please RSVP to Irena Knezevic at 902.457.6326orirena.knezevic@msvu.ca

By teleconference from Geneva, Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, will present the main results of the report of his mission to Canada and participate in discussion with key Canadian stakeholders such as yourselves.
Get a chance to hear more and ask questions on the topics addressed in the preliminary report such as poverty, growing inequity, health, obesity, sustainable agriculture and food systems, and the rights of First Nations, Northern and remote communities to healthy and affordable food.

Organizer:Irena Knezevic at 902.457.6326 orirena.knezevic@msvu.ca

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