Right to Food: National Organizations React to UN Report

MEDIA ADVISORY
 
14 May 2012
 
Food Secure Canada invites you to a press conference responding to the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter, on his mission to Canada.
 
When: Wednesday 16 May 2012, 11:15 am
 
Where: National Press Theatre, National Press Building, Ottawa 150 Wellington (access at 165 Sparks street (Booth building, third floor) due to construction)
 
Who: Diana Bronson, Executive Director, Food Secure Canada (FSC)
Mary Simon, President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK)
Bill Jeffreys, National Coordinator, Centre for Science in the Public Interest, Canada Representative (TBC), National Farmers Union (NFU)
 
Food Secure Canada worked with its members to organize meetings with the UN Special Rapporteur and civil society in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Winnipeg. ITK met privately with the Rapporteur.
 
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For more information or interviews with Food Secure Canada or our members:
 
Diana Bronson, cell: 514-629-9236 Diana@foodsecurecanada.org
Anna Paskal: 514-889-2533; policy@foodsecurecanada.org
Stephen Hendrie, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami: cell 613-277-3178; hendrie@itk.ca
Bill Jeffreys: 613-244 7337; jeffreyb@istar.ca
 
To request interviews with Olivier de Schutter, please contact: Yoonie Kim: +41 79 201 0124
(ykim@ohchr.org), copied to Nicolas Jacobs (nicholas.jacobs@uclouvain.be.)
Themes: 
Right to Food