Professor, University of Oregon School of Law
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2020-2026)
Michael Fakhri
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🇱🇧 Around 12% of the population of #Lebanon has been forced to flee their homes in just a few days. For many, it’s not the first time. Essential services are being pushed to the brink & families are struggling to support their loved ones.
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In response to questions, the UN SR on #RightToFood @michaelfakhri.bsky.social highlighted importance of addressing corporate accountability: the same actors that caused climate change are the same actors that have all the ownership of the land.
We need to hold corporations accountable.
Al menos 700.000 personas, cerca del 12% de la población de #Líbano, han tenido que huir de sus casas en apenas unos días. Para muchos, no es el primer desplazamiento. Los servicios básicos están al límite y miles de familias han dormido en la calle.
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In his last interactive dialogue at #HRC61, UN Special Rapporteur @michaelfakhri.bsky.social strongly urges States:
"Work with your people. Take human rights seriously. Take land defenders seriously. Give people the right to land, and they will protect their land."
one is not meant to have favourites, but this is definitely up there: a CTTB episode with @azohra.bsky.social and @nasiahadjigeorgiou.bsky.social on foreign military bases, international law and imperialism. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...
This has been a LONG time in works: my paper on how dollar hegemony is a form of international law-making power. It includes a long methodological/theoretical section on why strong versions of the 'law constitutes political economy' aren't convincing papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🌍✊🏾 Hundreds of delegates from peasants, Indigenous peoples, and rural workers will unite in Cartagena, Colombia, for the Forum of Peoples and Social Movements: United for Land, Water, Territories, and Dignity on Feb 22-23. Together, we’ll raise our voices […]
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🌱Land is the foundation of food sovereignty
📍Human Rights Council, dialogue on the right to food:
@michaelfakhri.bsky.social called on states to confront corporate control over land and food systems: “We don’t need corporations to feed us. We need peasants, women, fishers, and Indigenous Peoples”
In 7 days time the second International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, #ICARRD+20, takes place in Cartagena. 100 countries will be there. Yet the @fao.org makes no mention of it on their website. That's because the DG didn't want it
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Children expected to die of hunger in Darfur ‘within days’, says UN Sudan chief - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/darfur-children-expected-die-hunger-within-days-says-un-top-sudan-official
GENEVA – UN experts* today raised the alarm over a rapidly escalating displacement crisis in Lebanon, after intense Israeli airstrikes and evacuation warnings in southern Lebanon and parts of Beirut.“...
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In this episode of Called to the Bar: International Law Over Drinks, Ntina Tzouvala (UNSW) is joined by Zohra Ahmed (Boston University School of Law) and Nasia Hadjigeorgiou (University of Central Lan
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The so-called weaponisation of the dollar as part of the escalating geopolitical competition has drawn attention to dollar hegemony within the fields of interna
