The Fight for the Right to Food: Lessons Learned

About C. GolayC. MahonJ. ZieglerS. Way

JEAN ZIEGLER is Vice-President of the UN Human Rights Council's Advisory Committee and an Honorary Professor at the University of Geneva Switzerland. Previously he was UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. He is an expert on economic social and cultural rights and has published numerous books on globalization and development. CHRISTOPHE GOLAY is Joint Coordinator of the Project on Economic Social and Cultural Rights and Senior Researcher at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Switzerland. He is also Visiting Lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) Switzerland. Previously he was Legal Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.CLAIRE MAHON is Joint Coordinator of the Project on Economic Social and Cultural Rights and Senior Researcher at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Switzerland. She is also Special Advisor to Mary Robinson Chair of the GAVI Alliance and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School USA. She has previously worked as Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and as an international human rights lawyer for various non-governmental organizations including Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists.SALLY-ANNE WAY is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Economic and Social Rights Spain. She previously worked as Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and as Research Associate at the Graduate Institute of international and Development Studies (IHEID) Switzerland. She has also served as a consultant to various UN agencies and has held posts at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) UK and at the Bank of England. She has published widely on issues of human rights and development.